Slaking It Tow

A  L  O  H  A !

“Let’s take it slow

because some of the 

good things in life

 are worthy of reverence 

and appreciation. -

"Let’s take it slow because 

what we have

is like a cross-country ride, 

where all the breathtaking scenes 

must be breathed in 

and stared at with wonder. -

"Let’s take it slow 

because getting to know you 

is like a trip to a museum where things,

 both wonderful and gruesome, 

are waiting 

to be discovered. -

Let’s take it slow 

because some things 

are best done 

at a leisurely pace —” 

                                         Nessie Q

Linking to
Our World Tuesday

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Thank YOU

for choosing

to be lazing

here!

                   Fondly, cloudia

Summer Sloth

A  L  O  H  A !

" For every minute you are angry

 you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

" “Life 

is no brief candle 

to me. 

It is a sort of splendid torch 

which I have got a hold of 

for the moment, 

and I want to make it burn 

as brightly as possible 

before handing it 

onto future generations.”

 George Bernard Shaw

" Living is being born slowly. 

 It would be a little too easy

 if we could borrow 

ready-made souls. " 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

 Flight to Arras, 1942

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Aloha, Friends!

My brain

seems to have

gone fishing,

or on vacation.

Right now,

I'm enjoying a 

Summer Stupor

with a side of

Polynesian  Paralysis.

Sure hope You

are goofing off,

eating ice cream,

not going to school.

Isn't this just the most

healing time of the year?

 (Not valid in Southern Hemisphere;

Sorry Perth!)

Leave your complacent yawn in comments!

                              Fondly, cloudia

Summer Blossoms

Summer Fruits -    A  L   O   H   A !

" The afternoon

 of summer folds

Its warm arms 

round the marigolds, "

James Whitcomb Riley, 

A Fruit Piece

" Yet come I 

as I came of old,

From out the heart 

of Summer's joy. "

 William Morris,

 Pomona

" Your beauty is your life and my content,

And I will liken you to an apple-tree,

Mary and Margaret playing under the branches,

And everywhere soft shadows like your eyes,

And scattered blossom like your little smiles. "

William Kerr,
 The Apple Tree

Jacaranda Tree

" Life

has it's own

Hidden Forces

which you can

only discover

by living. "

Kierkegaard

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In Summer, 

little happens.

Right?

WRONG!

Official business,

education,

government,

& media

can all relax.

Perhaps

that is why

Summer is the 

Greatest Times

of Your Life!

Dare to wonder

if perhaps

the "lazy days"

are the 

Human Days.

Try a cure

of daffodils,

of quiet breezes

(when's the last time

you HEARD

a breeze?)

A cure of

solitude,

away from the e-world,

away from the phone.

Be at the ballpark.

Eat some happy junk food.
Be entranced by
carnival lights
in the dark.

Smell the French Fries.

Waste some time,

my Friend.

Do it TODAY!

Summer Afternoons

meld into Summer Nights.

And isn't that

W O N D E R F U L !

                                     Fondly, Cloudia

Summer More Than Ever

A  L  O  H  A !

"Gray skies

are just clouds passing over." 

 
Duke Ellington

"The silence often of pure innocence

Persuades when speaking fails. " 

 

 William Shakespeare 

"Be thine own palace, 

or the world's thy jail."

John Donne

"One is never alone. 

Acknowledged or unacknowledged,

that which dreams through us

is always there

to support from within."

Laurence van der Post

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I hope you find this page 

a reliable place

to land

 to enjoy 

and to

to celebrate

 YOUR life.

Together we 
share

the things

that really matter.

Summer really matters.

So take some time to dance with her.

After you leave us your comment, of  course :)

                                                                                   fondly, cloudia

Priscilla

Aloha Friend!

“The three great elemental sounds in nature

are the sound of rain,

the sound of wind in a primeval wood,

and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.”

-Henry Beston

Random look.

“Look deep into nature,

and then you will understand everything better.”

Albert Einstein

I'm Priscilla.

I sleep on hay in a penthouse apartment overlooking the mountains.

“Well-being and happiness

never appeared to me as an absolute aim.

I am even inclined to compare such moral aims

to the ambitions of a pig.”

Albert Einstein

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“I like pigs.

Dogs look up to us.

Cats look down on us.

Pigs treat us as equals.”


Winston Churchill




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Some days you have a great insight;

Some days you have a great sandwich.

Isn't life

GREAT!


thanks for visiting cloudia

Musing Dignified

It's Aloha Sunday. . .
Wanna Hang Out Here a While?

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around,

and don't let anybody tell you different.”


Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

"All theory, dear friend, is gray,

but the golden tree of life springs ever green."


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Noble Nipple Fruit
now dazzling Foster Botanical Garden.




"Memory is a child walking along a seashore.

You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up

and store away among its treasured things."


~Pierce Harris



Thanks for being a bloggy pal!

Sky Climbing Lentils

Aloha!
Welcome to da Beach


you can click on these photos:

I never tire of looking at Diamond Head, do you?
Mount Leahi (Brow of the Tuna)
got her modern name from British sailors
who found calcite crystals on her slopes, and believed them
DIAMONDS!

The path is sometimes steep, eh?




"Always continue the climb.

It is possible for you to do whatever you choose,

if you first get to know who you are

and are willing to work with a power

that is greater than ourselves to do it."



Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Now that's a SKY!


"A certain recluse,


I know not who,


once said that no bonds attached him to this life,


and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky."



Kenko Yoshida

A Lenticular cloud is said to look like a lens.
The lens was so named,
because it resembled the
Lentil.


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Summer is the syllabus of silliness.



We like go beach!



As we say in Hawaii Pidgin. . . .




It's one thing to schedule a post,



and because I value our relationship



I like to keep the images and words flowing your way.



Of course, that is only a PART of the blog-life.



Reading You,




following YOUR adventures



is the unexpectedly Best Part



of the Blogosphere to me.



So on these days of Summer Idleness,



when I wander far from the World Wide Web,



know that you are in my thoughts;



even if I'm not in your COMMENTS



as often as usual.


Warm Aloha, my Friend! cloudia

ps: I hear that some of us have been NOT getting comments that
readers try to post. My policy is to wait for GOOGLE/BLOGGER
to fix stuff before I get too upset....they always seem to eventually.
Maybe they like go beach?

Summer Sloth: Hurry!

A l o h a !

Just another beach day here in Waikiki. . .

click on photos to become tiny and enter their reality "The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."

Sidney J. Harris

“The very pink of perfection.”
Oliver Goldsmith




"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

Buckminster Fuller

My weekend of Woodstock Flash-Backing has left me tired, and dehydrated. And where did this mud between my toes come from?
Much like that original journey back to normalcy afterwards, it may take me some time cruising the back roads, scenic overlooks, and detours of my memory to return to the Here & Now.






August has reached it's roller coaster peak, and from this suspended moment of pause I gasp as I look at the tiny Autumn below that soon will be rushing towards me.






Where did the Summer go?
Hurry up and RELAX everybody!







I just want to throw my hands up and scream my release as the ride of life plunges me into the vertiginous dive and curves and tilts of the Immediate Future.
Here it comes!






Try screaming with me:






AAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







We used to say: "The revolution will NOT be televised." We were sure the old order was passing away, but the process is taking much longer than expected.
The talking heads on cable TV may be yammering on, but I don't hear them. The culture wars can roll on without me for a while.







Shhh! I'm AWOL from responsibility!






I'm just gonna lay on the beach and celebrate a Selfish Summer Monday. I suggest you do the same even if your beach is a sofa, a pile of magazines, or purely imaginary. Feel free to insert yourself into any of the pictures here at da Spiral.







Join me? A L O H A!