The Only Way To Live

A  L  O  H  A !

  If you are not willing to risk the unusual, 

you will have to settle for the 

ordinary.

          Jim Rohn

Creative people who can't help but 

explore other mental territories are at 

greater risk, just as someone who climbs 

a mountain is more at risk than someone 

who just walks along a village lane. 

                           R. D. Laing

The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

           W. E. B. Du Bois

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Weekend Reflections

Skywatch

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Thank YOU

Friend!

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May Allow

A  L  O  H  A !

"Dawn is the friend 

of the muses."

          Latin Proverb

Poems written upon awakening at dawn 

or about the dawn are called aubades.

"Until the old moon 

disappears completely, 

the new moon 

can not come."

               African Proverb

May love and peace

spread and heal.

May it start with a

quiet joy you

allow yourself to feel.

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Saturday Critters
I'd Rather Be Birdin'

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Thank YOU

Friend!

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Echo Chasm

A  L  O  H  A !

“If we had no faults of our own, 

we would not take so much 

pleasure in noticing 

those of others.”

             François de la Rochefoucauld

"Every creator painfully 

experiences the chasm 

between his inner vision and

its ultimate expression."

                        Isaac Bashevis Singer

I've learned to 

appreciate the echo! 

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"The ego always creates 

conditions favorable to itself. 

Often by silencing simple truths 

with mental nonsense.

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Feline Friday

Weekend Reflections

Shadow Shot Sunday

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Thank YOU

Friend!

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Let It Flow

A  L  O  H  A !

Light

"You can owe nothing,

if you give back

its light to the sun."

           Antonio Porchia, 

                        Voces,1943, translated from Spanish 

                                                  by W.S. Merwin

Creativity

"Enthusiasm is the 

electricity of life. 

How do you get it?

You act enthusiastic until 

you make it a habit."

                              Gordon Parks

Water

"We will discover the nature 

of our particular genius when 

we stop trying to conform to 

our own or other people's models,

learn to be ourselves, and allow our 

natural channel to open."

              Shakti Gawain

Linking to
Our World Tuesday

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Thank YOU

Friend!

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Traces

A  L  O  H  A  !

"We leave traces of 

ourselves wherever we go, 

on whatever we touch.”

                               Lewis Thomas

“Our talents are living things, 

we give birth to them, 

nourish them till they grow 

and become immortal.” 

                              Michael Bassey Johnson

 “The most

beautiful tide

is the sweep

of your heart

against mine.” 

Sanober Khan 

Linking to

Tuesday Treasures

Your Visit

is a gift in my day.

Leave a comment

and join the party!

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Pixie's Own Dream

A  L  O  H  A !

" We all have 

our time machines. 

Some take us back, 

they're called memories. 

Some take us forward, 

they're called dreams. "

                            Jeremy Irons

" I quote others 

only in order the 

better to express myself.  "

                                     Michel de Montaigne

" If Mr. Whiskers 

dreams about you, 

it means something 

is going to happen. "

                    Anne Chambers,

                              "Weird Girl"

              character in Tim Burton's 2012 film 

           Frankenweenie.  Some fans refer to her as   "Cynthia."

" One of the characteristics 

of the dream is that 

nothing surprises us in it. "

                             Cocteau

Pixie says:

"thank yoo most

prettily for dear

visitcoment"

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Experts At The Beach

A  L  O  H  A !

Photos all Clickable to Enlarge

Let's Go Back to the Beach!

" There is no charm 

equal to

 tenderness of heart. "

                   Jane Austen

Get There Any Way You Can

"I think there is

 a world market

 for maybe 

five computers."

                       Thomas Watson 

                         Chairman of IBM, 

                            1943

Silly Girl! It is your FOOT, not your HAND

that local girls stick out the car window!

" There is no reason 

anyone would want 

a computer 

in their home."

               Ken Olson,

                           president, chairman 

                    and founder 

                             Digital Equipment Corp., 

                                 1977

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" Everything that 

can be invented 

has been invented. "

                      Charles H. Duell 

                        Commissioner, 

                 U.S. Office of Patents, 

                  1899

" Easy As Pie" 

[Organic Blueberry]

“So many things

are possible 

as long as 

you don't know

they are impossible” 

Mildred D. Taylor

" And because

 nobody's done it before,

 they haven't made up rules 

to stop anyone 

doing that again-  "

Neil Gaiman

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Confounding the Experts!

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In Which I See a FOX

A  L  O  H  A !

No foxes in Hawaii, but is that. . . . ?

“ A fox 

passing through the wood

 on business of his own 

stopped several minutes 

and sniffed. ” 

                      J.R.R. Tolkien, 

                                      The Fellowship of the Ring

Bushy tail, pointy snout, ears pricked-
Ready to bolt at their approach

“ Hungry for beautiful words, 

the fox comes rooting 

around in the hedge. . .

 He reads my mind 

with one glance and is 

gone. ” 

                  Jay Woodman

Beguiled by a Kitsune!

“Nothing's perfect," 

sighed the fox. ” 

 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 

The Little Prince

" When a fox is fifty years old,

 it can transform itself 

into a woman. 

When it is one hundred, 

it becomes 

a beautiful woman 

or a shaman; 

Some become men

 and have sex 

with women. 

They can know events 

from more than a thousand li away 

and are good at witchcraft, 

beguiling people and

 making them 

lose their senses. "

                           Guo Pu, 

                                   Records from Within the Recondite

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Thank You

for magically
appearing here!

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Books and Theses on Spirit Foxes:

Bathgate, Michael R. The Shapeshifter Fox: The Imagery of Transformation and the Transformation of Imagery in Japanese Religion and Folklore. Chicago: The University of Chicago, June 2001. Doctoral thesis.

Blacker, Carmen. The Catalpa Bow: A Study of Japanese Shamanistic Practices. Routledge Curzon, 1999.

A thorough description of Japanese shamanism that includes an entire chapter on magical animals, including kitsune.

Davis, Winston. Dojo: Magic and Exorcism in Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980. 

A study of the Sukyo Mahikari sect, a religion that believes in possession by spirit animals and the dead. The author describes several cases of fox possession and exorcism.   Link

Whatever it is you're seeking

A  L  O  H  A !

Chocolate toothbrush

Johnny Appleteen

follows the moon

in search of a queen

swallows lies

 if you know what I mean

splits the difference nicely

by

living on beans

Green Green 

A Chorus of 

G R E E N

PDVA: 

Public Display

 of Vegetal Affection

" Always be 

a first-rate version 

of yourself, instead of 

a second-rate version 

of somebody else. "

                  Judy Garland

At this rate

who ELSE

am I fit to be?!

Pixie?

" Whatever it is you're seeking

won't come 
in the form you're expecting. "
                           Haruki Murakami


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for exploring the 
Wondrous Nonsense
with us today!
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