Let There Be

A  L  O  H  A !

Let There Be

"Star lost

in the light of dawn,

trill of the breeze,

warmth, breath—

the night is done.

You are light 

and morning.” 

                Cesare Pavese

Angels Three

"Sculpture is a 

three-dimensional object 

with a message... 

Painting is an object with a 

three-dimensional message."

               Bob Brendle

Archangel Raphael, Healer

Healthy habits do not 

produce HEALTH. 

      That is a gift. What we do is create 

the space and conditions for 

Health & Well Being to 

precipitate, accumulate, 

and to grow. 

                            cloudia

San Rafael, CA

Remember, it's 

"Kill them with kindness" not 
"Kill them with sarcasm.
                      cloudia

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InSpired Sunday

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Thank YOU

Friend!

          Fondly, cloudia

Ming Vase Purr

A  L  O  H  A !

St. Vincent de Paul Bell towers, Petaluma CA
[Click Photo to Expand]  Link

"The sound of laughter is like 
the vaulted dome of a 
temple of happiness."
             Milan Kundera

"The heavenly blue 

of fresh new days

Oh, friend, you 

must employ them

Before they pass 

away. Be brave!

Enjoy them; oh, 

enjoy them!"

                   Theodor Storm,

                                                                              A Song in October 

                                                                                                       

"Even if you have just 

destroyed a Ming Vase, 

purr. Usually all 

will be forgiven."

                   Lenny Rubenstein

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InSpired Sunday

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Thank YOU

Friend!

           Fondly, cloudia

Hawaii Photo of the Day

A  L  O  H  A !

Honolulu Harbor

A Church in Honolulu,
note the Asian elements

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InSpired Sunday

Of Moons, Money and Walls

A  L  O  H  A !

Super Moon Rise, Marin CA

"No, not rich. 

I am a poor man 

with money, which 

is not the 

same thing."

       Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Winter Pink, Marin CA

"The walls we 

build around us 

to 

keep sadness out 

also 

keep out the joy."

               Jim Rohn

Novato CA City Hall
Former Presbyterian Church

"Live out of your 
imagination instead of 
out of your memory."
             Les Brown

Linking to

InSpired Sunday

Thank YOU
Friend!
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Don't Leave Home Without You

A  L  O  H  A !

" The truth 

has a million faces,

 but there is 

only one truth. "

                    Hermann Hesse

“ I never 

met a person 

that I did not 

want to like. ” 

                           Will Rogers

Honolulu Chinese Christian Church

“Be there for others, 

but never leave 

yourself behind.” 

               Dodinsky

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InSpired Sunday

Thank YOU

Friend!

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Faith, Light, Pixie

A  L  O  H  A !

 Click on Photos to Enlarge

" Love covers a 

multitude of sins." 

1 Peter 4:8

"People who fight with fire 

usually end up with ashes." 

                           Abigail Van Buren

Linking to

Monday Mural

" The evening beam that

 smiles the clouds away, 

and tints tomorrow 

with prophetic ray. "

                                  Byron

Linking to
Weekend Reflections

Fast Food to Church

“ All the world 

is made of faith, 

and trust, and pixie dust. ” 

     J.M. Barrie, 
           Peter Pan

Linking to

InSpired Sunday

"That's ME, PIXIE! "

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Lanterns

A  L  O  H  A !

Illumined Clouds are Floating Lanterns

" Happiness is 

like a field 

you can harvest 

every season. "

                   Luo Proverb

“Blessed are the weird people

 - poets, misfits, writers, 

mystics, painters, troubadours - 

for they teach us

 to see the world 

through different eyes.” 

                   Jacob Nordby 

Lantern Floating Ceremony
[Interdenominational ]

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InSpired Sunday

" Sow good and 
you'll reap good; 
sow bad and 
you'll reap bad. 
You don't have to 
cut down a tree 
to get its fruit. "
              Tibetan Proverb

Linking to
I "Heart" Macro


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Thank You!
                Warmly, cloudia

A Buddhist Mission

A  L  O  H  A  from   Honolulu!

Every day, thousands 

of Honolulu drivers

pass by this sweet 

Buddhist Hongwanji

off Pali Hwy. 

[I'm unable to find, share her name] 

She is emblematic 

of many such

throughout Hawaii that

speak of our immigrant

and plantation history,

Note the CARP banners

flying to celebrate the

Boy's Day season.

Linking to

InSpired  Sunday

Please Click To Enlarge, Pleasing YOURSELF

 I found it. 

You already possess it.

 Let's share in it! 

Thank You

for visiting-

                                             cloudia

Soft Sunday Whispers

A   L   O   H   A     from   Honolulu!

“ Be the ghost of 

the empty streets! 

You shall be crowned

 with the touch of

great inspirations! ” 

                         Mehmet Murat ildan

Shell Ginger Spilling

" It is not easy 

to walk alone

 in the country 

without 

musing upon 

something. "

                  Charles Dickens

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I Heart Macro

Kawaiahaʻo Church
" constructed between 1836 and 1842 
of some 14,000 thousand-pound 
slabs of coral rock 
quarried from an offshore reef.
 Hawaiian divers with hand tools 
dived 3 to 6 metres 
below sea-level to 
chisel out each coral block, 
which had then to be transported 
from the reef and onto shore. "
Wikipedia

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InSpired Sunday

Light Overcoming Stone

“ The softest things 
in the world 
overcome the 
hardest things 
in the world. "
                               Lao-Tzu

Linking to

Shadow Shot Sunday

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Lovely to
See YOU
Again, My Friend!
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Cathedrals and Building Cranes

A  L  O  H  A  from Honolulu!

" We used to build 

civilizations

Now we build 

shopping malls. "

                   Bill Bryson

Don't let today 

be governed by 

yesterday's issues 

or tomorrow's worries. 

Start each new day 

expecting the best!

Linking to
Shadow Shot Sunday

Central Union Church, Honolulu

Linking to

InSpired Sunday

Thank You!

                   Warmly Cloudia

Shingon Shu Hawaii

A  L  O  H  A   from   Honolulu!

Shingon Shu Temple, Honolulu

click on photos!

Built in 1917-1918 by Nakagawa Katsutaro, 

a master builder of Japanese-style temples.

 Renovated in 1929 by Hego Fuchino,

  first person of Japanese ancestry 

to become a licensed architect 

in Hawaii. 

Note the steep, hipped-gable  

"Irimoya" roof.

Link

Placed on the 

National Register of Historic Places 

 26 April 2002.

Just inside the gate, 

one may relax and prepare

to commune with the eternal verities.

Click on photo to see the taps (right)

where one may wash and make clean.

[yes, that is a lotus pool]

Statue of Kūkai 

 Known posthumously as Kōbō-Daishi

"The Grand Master 

Who Propagated the Buddhist Teaching"

[in Japan] 774–835 B.C.E

Monk, civil servant, scholar, poet, artist

engineer & founder of 

the Shingon or "True Word" 

school of Buddhism. 

Kūkai is famous as a calligrapher  

and inventor of the kana, 

the characters with which, in combination 

with Chinese characters kanji, 

the Japanese language 

is written to this day!

Link

. 

As you climb the stairs,

you must pass Füjin,

 Shintö god of wind 

to your left.

[See his bag of winds?]

On your right,

Raijin, god of thunder.

[Look at all his percussion!]

[ This IS a Buddhist temple,

but it is also very Japanese

to mix faith traditions.

This was a piece of 'Home'

to hardworking immigrants! ]

"The bell of mindfulness

 is the voice of the Buddha 

calling us back

 to ourselves. -

- We have to respect 

each sound of the bell, 

stop our thinking and talking,

 and get in touch 

with ourselves, 

breathing and smiling. 

This is not a Buddha 

from the outside.

 It is our own Buddha 

calling us home."

                            Thich Nhat Hanh

Shall We Enter?

Click Photos!

Ceiling Detail

Like Being in a Jewel Box

Many of These Appointments

Were Brought from Japan

The glittering altar 

 Anthuriums = Hawaii

Imbued With 

Lessons & Meaning

Side View: Altar

Note Tibetan Singing Bowl

Turning to Leave

I feel suffused by light

 View From McDonald's Parking

Oh My!

Linking to

InSpired Sunday

Thank You

for visiting

one of my favorite

Honolulu buildings!

                        Warmly, cloudia