Saturday, April 30, 2016

Reflected

A  L  O  H  A !


"When you feel great, 
dare to help someone 
else feel great too."
                  Steve Maraboli














"Many of the faults 
you see in others, 
dear reader, are 
your own nature 
reflected in them."
                                Rumi











"I'm a success today 
because I had a friend 
who believed in me 
and I didn't have 
the heart to 
let him down." 
                          Abraham Lincoln



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Friend!
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Friday, April 29, 2016

Hearts and Fresh Starts

A  L  O  H  A !
"The line separating good 
& evil passes not 
through states,
not between classes, 
nor between political 
parties either -









 but right through 
every human heart."

                                 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn











We all need fresh starts. 
That's why the sun 
comes up everyday.


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Thank YOU!
                    Fondly, cloudia







Thursday, April 28, 2016

Worthy Hearts

A  L  O  H  A !
Dawn, Marin CA

"The years teach much 

which the days never knew. "

              Ralph Waldo Emerson
















Pacific Gas & Electric, Petaluma
Does the fence make this outlet
childproof?


“Fear kills Life and Light. 
Awe builds us up 
and makes Wise. Plug 
into something judged 
worthy by your own heart."
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Waikiki

"I am determined to be 
cheerful and happy in 
whatever situation I may 
find myself. For I have learned
 that the greater part of 
our misery or unhappiness is 
determined not by our
 circumstance but 
by our disposition."
            Martha Washington
                                1st First Lady (FLOTUS)
                           of the USA





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for Visiting!
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Everyone Else is Taken

A  L  O  H  A !
Cormorant  [Click to Enlarge]

It not knowing what to do, 
it's doing what you know.

                             Tony Robbins














"Without suffering, 
there'd be no compassion."
                         Nicholas Sparks


















“Always be a 
first rate version 
of yourself and 
not a second rate 
version of 
someone else.” 
                 Judy Garland
















“When you are content 
to be simply yourself 
and don't compare 
or compete, everyone 
will respect you.” 
                                       Lao Tzu













"Be clearly aware of 
the stars and 
infinity on high. 
Then life seems almost 
enchanted after all.”   
                         Vincent van Gogh





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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Fool Start

A  L  O  H  A !
Marin Wetlands @ Dawn


"Art enables us to 
find ourselves and 
lose ourselves at 
the same time." 
                         Thomas Merton




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Revelers @  420 Celebration, Sonoma

"Unintelligent people 
always look 
for a scapegoat."
                            Ernest Bevin













Japan Town, San Francisco

"We start as fools 
and become wise 
through experience."
                                   Proverb, Tanzania







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for Hanging
with Us!
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Monday, April 25, 2016

Petaluma Mural

A  L  O  H  A  from Petaluma
Petaluma; 
Rembrandt Cherub (?)
aboard a chicken.


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Mellow Monday Morning Marin

A  L  O  H  A !


"Happiness is the 
light on the water.
                       William Maxwell 










“Let everything 
happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final” 
                     Rainer Maria Rilke














“What you have to decide... 
is how you want 
your life to be. 
 So don't be
afraid. Be alive.” 
                  Sarah Dessen



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Thank You
for 
Sharing the Morning!
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

San Francisco Sights

A  L  O  H  A !
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"The first 50 years 
of childhood
are the hardest."
                  Anonymous












"Just give me a home, 
in a great circle dome 
Where stresses and 
strains are at ease. "
                   R. Buckminster Fuller













“A truly great book should 
be read in youth, again 
in maturity and once 
more in old age, as a 
fine building should be 
seen by morning light, 
at noon and
 by moonlight.” 
                            Robertson Davies











Sherith Israel
Happy  Passover

"Unleavened Bread. . . the emblem of 
the Israelites’ suffering in Egypt 
and the symbol of the haste—
that is, the joyous eagerness—
which marked their departure. 
When we eat the 
Unleavened Bread on the Festival 
we, in a sense, eat the bread of 
sorrow with our toiling, suffering 
ancestors, and for the 
moment share the sorrow itself."
                                 Morris Joseph, 
                                         "Passover," Judaism as Creed and Life












“Some tourists think 
Amsterdam [and S.F.]
is a city of sin, 
but in truth it is a
city of freedom.” 
                      John Green














“I do not think, sir, 
you have any right to
 command me, merely
 because you are 
older than I."
                   Charlotte Brontë, 
                                    Jane Eyre





Such FUN
to Walk with
Y O U
My Friend!
Waikiki, San Francisco
or Petaluma. . . 
Thank You
for walking along,
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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Ye Gods! Egret!

A  L  O  H  A !

"The heron blames the water
 because he cannot swim."
                                      Danish Proverb














“When despair for the world 
grows in me, and I wake 
in the night at the least
 sound in fear of what my life
 and my children's lives may be --











" I go and lie down where 
the wood drake rests in 
his beauty on the water, and 
the great heron feeds. I come 
into the peace of wild things 
who do not tax their lives 
with forethought or grief. 
I come into the presence 
of still water. And I feel 
above me the day-blind stars 
waiting with their light. For 
a time I rest in 
the grace of the world, 
and am free.”
                          Wendell Berry 


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is Appreciated!
Together we chase
the nasties by sharing
beauty of all sorts-
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