Saturday, August 31, 2019

Crystal Through Which You Gaze

A  L  O  H  A !
Rasta Man Welcomes Us to the Smoke Shop

There is neither truth nor lie; 
everything is like the color of 
the crystal through which you gaze.
             Mexican Proverb













Urban Glory
We do not have to become heroes overnight. 
Just a step at a time, meeting each thing 
that comes up ... discovering we 
have the strength to stare it down.     
            Eleanor Roosevelt











Look To The Everyday Heroes!

Not the glittering weapon 
fights the fight, but 
rather the hero's heart.
            Traditional Proverb










I think a hero is any person really 
intent on making this a 
better place for all people.
           Maya Angelou



And you can 
start today,
right now,
where you are!

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YOU
are the reason
we meet
every day
                       Warmly, cloudia

Friday, August 30, 2019

Love Donors

A  L  O  H  A !
Don't be a beggar of love, 
Be a donor of love.










What is moral is 
what you feel good after,
and what is immoral is 
what you feel bad after.
             Hemingway










I have never been hurt by 
anything I didn't say.
              Calvin Coolidge















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I will not let anyone 
walk through my mind 
with their dirty feet.
             Gandhi



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YOU
&
Me
=
US!
                           cloudia

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Choose Inner Dialogue

A  L   O  H  A !
I fell in love with taking pictures, 
with wandering around finding things. 
To me, it feels like a kind of performance. 
The picture is a document
of that performance.  
                   Alec Soth








'Atlas'
When you think of Rihanna's voice, 
you think of this whole, rich thing, 
solid like a tree trunk. 
             Chris Martin









'Selfie'
Everything you believe 
affects everything 
that comes to you.
        Abraham Hicks




Psychology and other branches of science, 
more and more, attest to the truth 
and mechanisms of this. 
As does my own experience 
and understanding.

Whatever is lovely, right,
and uplifting to your mood:
think on THESE things!

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Y  O  U
            cloudia

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Not Everyone Sees It

A  L  O  H  A !
Consider a tree for a moment. 
As beautiful as trees are to look at, 
we don't see what goes on underground - 
as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots 
in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. 
But we don't see the roots. 
We just see and enjoy the beauty. 
In much the same way, what goes on 
inside of us is like the roots of a tree.
                       Joyce Meyer







Everything has beauty, 
but not everyone sees it.  
Confucius


That's what I was thinking,
before I took this shot








The only thing that ultimately matters
is to eat an ice-cream cone, 
play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, 
good God, now you're free. 
                   Ray Manzarek









The sparrow that is twittering 
on the edge of my balcony is 
calling up to me this moment a world 
of memories that reach over half my lifetime, 
and a world of hope that stretches farther 
than any flight of sparrows. 
                      Donald G. Mitchell



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Together We
will get past this
bump in the road
                     cloudia


Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Ascendancy

A  L  O  H  A !
The positive energy and 
love we give to others,
heals our own wounds.
              Angie Karan









 Every adversity, every failure, every 
heartache carries with it the seed of 
an equal or greater benefit.
                              Napoleon Hill














In order to see birds it is necessary to 
become part of the silence.
            Paul Laurence Dunbar
















Awake,arise,and assert yourself,
you dreamers of the world. 
Your star is now in ascendancy.
                     Napoleon Hill



Pendulums do swing.

People do awaken.

Wrong acts
and lying words
sooner or later
bring failure.

The bigger they act
the harder they fall.

Forbearing* people
will inherit the world.



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Love You,
                                          cloudia


"to refrain or abstain from; desist from. 
to keep back; withhold.
Obsolete. to endure.
verb (used without object), for·bore, for·borne, for·bear·ing.
to refrain; hold back.to be patient or self-controlled when subject to annoyance or provocation.   Link

Monday, August 26, 2019

The Major Problem

A  L  O  H  A !
I’m here to tell you
That you’ve got
What it takes












The Major Problem
in the world today
is contempt.
I pledge to remain
calm and loving.
Even in the face of it.











I fell in love with Honolulu
When I saw a girl with flowers in her hair
When she gave me her aloha smile
I was glad that I could stay awhile
                    Donald Neil McKay















Live today so richly that
if it is your last 
you're cool with that.



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                                                       cloudia

Sunday, August 25, 2019

With Joy

A  L  O  H  A !
Star lost
in the light of dawn,
trill of the breeze,
warmth, breath—
the night is done.
You are light and morning.
           Cesare Pavese








A single poem, alone
can turn tides
scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise.
              Sanober Khan

























The great sea Has sent me 
adrift It moves me 
As the weed in a great river 
Earth and the great weather 
Move me 
Have carried me away 
And moved my inward parts with joy.
                 Eskimo Song,  Uvavnuk



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Love You!
                              cloudia















Saturday, August 24, 2019

Everything Nothing

A  L  O  H  A !
My hopes are not always realized, 
but I always hope.
       Ovid









Willpower is just another name for 
the idea of choosing long-term outcomes 
rather than short-term ones.”
            António R. Damásio









Everything changes
nothing is lost.
                    Ovid


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                                       cloudia







Friday, August 23, 2019

Rest Be Kind

A  L  O  H  A !
 I love the progress
of the day.

Time flies when
we're having fun.















Rest and be kind, you don’t 
have to prove anything. 
                  Jack Kerouac
















Don't You love
Morning Noon 
& Night?









I don't feed the birds 
because they need me; 
I feed the birds because 
I need them.
        Kathi Hutton



Love You!
                             cloudia

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Don't Become What You Hate

A  L  O  H  A !
 " 'Resist not evil,' 
for all passionate conflicts 
result in an interchange
 of characteristics."
Neville Goddard















"In spite of the many sins of omission 
and commission against the Indians 
that I had laid at the door of the Municipality, 
I could not help commending it's 
solicitude for the white citizens, and 
I rendered as much help as I could 
in it's laudable efforts." 
              Gandhi ca 1900












"It is my faith, based on experience, 
that if one's heart is pure, 
calamity brings in it's train 
men [sic] and measures to fight it."
                         Gandhi












You cannot police the behavior of others.
But you can choose your own response
if you do not immediately react.
Don't take it personally. Choose.


Buddha was walking with some
traveling companions when an
angry person began yelling and
berating him. Buddha remained
quite calm. At the end of the day,
his friends asked him about the 
incident and received this question:
"If someone gives you something,
and you do not accept it,
who does it belong to?"

Don't make the problems of others
your own! Just keep walking as
you have chosen to do. Do right as
you understand it impartially.
THIS is what changes the world.

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Thanks, Friend!
                                       cloudia