Magic Matters

A  L  O  H  A !

Civilization is just a slow process 

of learning to be kind.

    Charles L. Lucas

What a child doesn't receive 

he can seldom later give. 

    P.D. James

N. Calif.

Matter is not lacking in magic, 

matter is magic.” 

          Terence McKenna

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Love You,

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Beyond-ing

A  L  O  H  A  ! 

“ The problem is not 

to find the answer, it's

 to face the answer. ”

                                     Terence McKenna

" Ima be 

on the next level.

 Ima be rockin

 over that bass treble. "

                               Black Eyed Peas 

Waikiki

“Beyond the picket fences 

and the oil wells,

 the happy endings,

 and the fairy tales, 

is the reality 

of shattered lives

 and broken dreams. 

We carry on.”

                             Tim McGraw

Marin County CA

" Civilization is just a 

slow process of

 learning to be kind. "

               Charles L. Lucas

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Thank YOU

for kindly visiting!

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I Director

A  L  O  H  A !

" Simple

 can be harder

 than complex. "

                   Steve Jobs

 "If you ever find yourself 
in the wrong story, 
leave."  
                   Mo Willems

"The two of them were 

very proud of that scene 

when it was done 

because it seemed 

simpler than it was. "

                      Paris Barclay, 

                        Director

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During Holiday Seasons

there is a lot of work,

expectations, and pressure

in the air.

Routines

are disrupted;

And some of us

rely on our routines

to regulate our days.

We may be separated

from companions,

or worse:

our companion animals!

When I get tense

It's does me good 

to remember

that I am director

of my own movie.

Call a five minute break.

Assess the scene.

Sometimes, it's what

DOESN'T occur

that makes the piece!

[so it comes off simpler

than it is]

Don't play someone else's

role they've created for you.

Just tell yourself:

"CUT."

Then play it your way,

or not at all.

If voices be raised,

yours need not

be one of them.

Remember:

You are the Star

of your own movie!

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Thank You

for your appearance

here!

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What I'm Really Saying

A L O H A !
 

 However long the night

The dawn will break   

                       African Proverb 

" The colors of the rainbow 

so pretty in the sky

And also on the faces 

of people passing by

I see friends shaking hands 

saying 'How do you do?'

They're really saying 

I, 

I love you "

Songwriters

ARLEN, HAROLD / HARBURG, E /

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"My work is not accidental 

and not planned. "
                    Hans Hofmann 

I like the man seen 

through the rip in the fence!

When eating vegetables, 

remember the one 

who planted them.

                    Chinese Proverb

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I even invented

a term for it:

"Grooming Language."

When primates are

together, they

groom one another.

Simple enough.

But when the job

is done,

they carry on

touching, stroking,

attending.

This "Grooming Behavior"

strengthens social bonds

and health.

I have not 

combed out my 

neighbors-

BUT

The routine things

we say,

that have no

practical utility

are Grooming Language.

No one needs

to say it's a cold

[or hot] day"

And few really

CARE about 

"How is your day going"?

In New York

it is quick:

"How you doin?"

And the answer

is: "Good."

Just as quick,

but effective.

"God be with you"

['Good bye']

"Aloha"

O Genki Desu Ka?

[How is your health?]

May seem routine,

even pointless sometimes.

As pointless as breathing

over and OVER again!

So How's it goin'?

What I'm really saying?

I Love You,

Friend!

Thanks for visiting,

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Wandering Pondering

A  L  O  H  A !

"-  perhaps the most persistent call 

is to love one another 

with compassion 

and open arms, 

even and especially 

when we find ourselves 

face to face 

with people we 

don't understand." 

               Matthew Myer Boulton

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Thank YOU

For Wandering,

Pondering

Here With Us!

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Today We Vote

A  L  O  H  A !

I love Hawaii!

Election signs for:

A Hapa-Haole Appearing local guy link

 Marshall

link

Hawaiian: 

Brickwood 

[ my State Senator ]

Chinese-American: 

[ by way of Malaysia]  

Djou

Local Ethnic-Japanese American: 

Takai

ALL on a popular 

local family operated 

Chinese Restaurant!

THAT'S HAWAII STYLE-

If it is Election Day

near You:

V O T E !

People died for this.

In wars over seas,

in civil rights actions

 at home.

The first western democracy

in ancient Greece

was a direct 

meet-argue-vote

situation.

Not everyone participated

in the discussion,

or the voting

YET.

But the basic idea

was good.

As the Vikings,

the  Iroquois,

and other First Nations

 knew as well.

Town Meetings today,

even family meetings,

show the survival of this

basic impulse

to have a say

in the things that effect

our lives;

To disagree, yet cooperate.

Thanks for voting

for our Comfort Spiral

by visiting here.

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Emotion Rebellion

A   L   O   H   A !

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Why are so many of us

 angry?

Disillusioned?

Why is compromise

a dirty word,

when in our private lives

we work out compromises

every minute

to keep life 

harmonious?

People:

Our deep emotional side

feels cheated and lied to.

That deepest, most ancient

and Human portion of ourselves

has systematically been 

devalued.

Don't get me wrong,

I'm glad to enjoy

our scientific age

and it's myriad,

undeniable blessings.

But something vital has been lost

- fairly recently -

and we all feel it.

Visiting "less developed" places

we encounter smiles,

and resilience of joy,

that our culture lacks.

Because we have 

ignored the care

and feeding of Our Humanity,

our emotional unity

that very ancient part of us

is on life support.

All that's left

is a vestigial patriotism

played like a fiddle

by those who profit 

from war.

We roll it our for parades.

In the absence of wider 

Shared Values that empower

  our emotional side's best,

a forest of technicalities,

convolutions, and

Procedures

holds all the power

in day to day life.

This state of affairs

frustrates our most

basic connection to

"Right & Wrong." 

We are estranged,

governed by those who

believe that they,

not we,

see the Big Picture.

They after all are

Leaders.

We used to call them

Servants of the Public.

But the clash with reality

has retired that expression.

Where are they leading us?

Instead our emotions,

uneducated & ignored,

are played upon by experts

causing us to purchase,

wear, vote, live out 

conformity.

Though our shared public 

conformity has shattered,

this has not deterred 

the self proclaimed "Elite."

Our public narratives

have wandered far afield.

The Center

will Not Hold.

And perhaps this too

is by design,

because the voters

united

will never be defeated.

So they need us to be

stirred up and confused.

Clarity would show us

how robbed we are!

They have thwarted 

and channeled our
wise discontents,

cleverly making of us

 impotent clans opposing

each other.

We waste our political energies

in argument

accomplishing

Nothing.

This too keeps the 

machine of society

 humming

in the  

 predetermined direction.

Happy or angry

it's all the same to them:

we go to work

we buy their shit

we repeat their lies.

In the 60's Grace Slick

and the Jefferson Airplane sang:

"Feed Your Head."

Today the revolutionary

evolutionary

radical & conservative

Thing To Do:

FEED YOUR HEART.

Ignore the phony oppositions,

stop arguing with your neighbor,

and hear their desperate heart

that knows something is wrong.

The talismans of guns,

prepping for disaster

and hating those godless

liberals

are really talismans:

hopeful charms protecting

the same things liberals value!

Family, Liberty, American Values

(which have always included

both welcoming

and beating immigrants.

Sad but true.)

So we continue;

Pushing the boulder of decency

and civic equity

up the steep incline

of loud, wrong

"explanations."

Who do those explanations

serve?

Not You,

Not Me.

One message of the 60's

still rings true:

" All the world over, so easy to see

People everywhere just wanna be free

I can't understand it, so simple to me

People everywhere just got to be free

Ah, ah, yeah . . . ah, ah, yeah

If there's a man who is down

 and needs a helping hand

All it takes is you to understand 

and to see him through "

Young Rascals 

People Got To Be Free

[ Lyrics ]

Together. Here.

You & Me-

We Are Living It 

Every Day

Can You Feel the Power?

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