Train Attention

A  L  O  H  A !

“As the caterpillar undergoes 

transformation and emerges 

as a butterfly; likewise, 

character undergoes transformation 

through experiences, aspirations 

and beliefs. How will you emerge?” 

                      Lorna Jackie Wilson

“There is no such a thing as 

missing the train of your life! 

Life is very rich and very generous; 

it always offers you new opportunities! 

Already-missed will soon be 

substituted by the not-missed-yet!” 

         Mehmet Murat ildan

"Every year of my life 
I grow more convinced that 
it is wisest and best to fix our 
attention on the beautiful and good 
and dwell as little as possible 
on the dark and the base."

                 Richard Cecil   

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Feline Friday

Saturday Critters

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Friend!

           Fondly, cloudia

Your Train

A  L  O  H  A !

"Treat everyone with 

politeness and kindness, 

not because they are nice, 

but because you are."

                               Roy T. Bennett

SMART Train, Novato CA

"If a train doesn't 

stop at your station, 

then it's not your train."

                        Marianne Williamson

"Missing a train 

is only painful 

if you run after it! "

             Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Hope is being able to see that 

there is light despite 

all of the darkness. "

           Desmond Tutu

Thank YOU

Friend!

              Fondly, cloudia

When You Start

A  L  O  H  A !

Marin Calif

"When you start treating 

people like people, 

they become people."

               Paul Vitale

“Time was passing 

like a hand waving 

from a train I 

wanted to be on." 

     Jonathan Safran Foer

"With virtue you can't 

be entirely poor; 

without virtue you can't 

really be rich."

     Chinese Proverb

Linking to
Our World Tuesday

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Friend!

                  Fondly, cloudia

All Aboard

A  L  O  H  A !

“The restlessness and the longing, 

like the longing that 

is in the whistle 

of a faraway train. 

Except that the longing 

isn't really in the whistle—

it is in you.” 

                       Meindert DeJong

“I like trains. 

I like their rhythm, 

and I like the freedom 

of being suspended 

between two places, 

all anxieties of purpose 

taken care of: 

for this moment I know 

where I am going.” 

                      Anna Funder

“The train may fall in 

love with a station, but 

it has to go and it goes! 

Don’t be like the train; 

stay at the station 

you fell in love, 

go nowhere!” 

                      Mehmet Murat ildan

"Their memory's like a train: 

you can see it getting 

smaller as it pulls away 

And the things you can't remember 

Tell the things you can't forget 

that History puts a saint 

in every dream. "

                        Tom Waits

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I missed trains;

Honolulu is just

building her first.

Sonoma Marin Area 

Rapid Transit

link

is road testing trains

to run later this year.

The whistle enchants me,

as do the geese honking

low over my house,

and the zesty cool

snap in the golden

afternoon air.

I'm a sucker

for October.

Hope yours is

high-balling* along!

          Fondly, cloudia

Favorite Train Songs:

Love Train

City of New Orleans

People Get Ready

What's YOURS?

* "HIGHBALL—Signal made by waving hand or lamp in a high, wide semicircle, meaning "Come ahead" or "Pick up full speed." Verb highball or phrase 'ball the jack means to make a fast run. Word highball originated from old-time ball signal on post, raised aloft by pulley when track was clear. 

HIGHBALL ARTIST—A locomotive engineer known for fast running."

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