Pictures of Infinite Beauty

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Sunsets are so beautiful

that they almost seem as

if we were looking through

the gates of Heaven.

John Lubbock

It is almost impossible

to watch a sunset

and not dream. Bern Williams

African Sausage Tree Blossom

Kigelia is a genus of flowering

plants in the family Bignoniaceae.

The genus consists of only one species, Kigelia africana, which occurs throughout tropical Africa. The so-called sausage tree grows a poisonous fruit that is up to 60 cm (2 feet) long, weighs about 7 kg (15 pounds), and resembles a sausage in a casing.

Wikipedia

Nature is painting for us,

day after day, pictures

of infinite beauty if only we

have the eyes to see them.

John Ruskin

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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What I Always Hope To Be

A L O H A From Honolulu!

What would it mean to

live in a city whose people

were changing each other's

despair into hope?

Adrienne Rich

Aloha is

my joy, my love,

the reason I live;

What I hope to

share with people

and what I always

hope to be.

Danene Lunn

People only change

after they’ve felt understood.

The really good confidants

-the people we go to for wisdom-

are more like story editors

than sages. They take in

your story, accept it,

but prod you to

reconsider it so you can

change your relationship to

your past and future.

    David Brooks

* Resting Spot Moment*

I refuse

putting from me

the best that I am. Walt Whitman

Ours is a virtuous circle,

in which we are enriched

and enrich one another.

Extraordinary. And

I am extraordinarily

grateful for each of you.

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Love You,

 Cloudia & Pixie

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How To Care

 A L O H A From Honolulu!

When it is darkest,

we see the stars.

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

There wouldn't be 

a sky full of stars if 

we were all meant to 

wish on the same one.

Frances Clark

If people sat outside 

and looked at the 

stars each night, 

I'll bet they'd live 

a lot differently.

Bill Watterson

The stars are the 

land-marks of 

the universe.

Sir John Frederick William Herschel

It almost looks like a halo of spikes," he said. "The sun crown isn't just a Christian symbol," Emily said. "In many cultures as far back as ancient Egyptian, and including Roman and Christian, crown of thorns and halo both derive from the tradition that identifies every newly-crowned king with the sun. The halo nimbus represents the rays of the rising sun. It's a sign that its wearer plays the life-giving role of the sun in his subjects' existence. The Greek sun god Apollo was driving his chariot across the heavens wearing the sun crown when Rome was just a huddle of huts.

Kenneth Atchity *

Nimbus?

Shmim-bus!

𓀬𓀬𓀬𓀬𓀬𓀬𓀬𓀬𓀬𓀫

Caring Matters,

even if it can drive us

crazy sometimes.

How do YOU care?

Recently I realized

that my caring

was often judgement,

expressed too often

as anger.

But real Caring

is actually

Love, isn't it?

It's not at all about

who to be angry with.

When I despair

over the state of the world

I am really saying:

"This is my responsibility."

Silly when you say it

right out, isn't it!

What is my responsibility?

To love life as a gift,

To love the giver,

to love my neighbor.

What more

CAN

I do?

That's a load off!

All we can do is love them

and vote.

Join The Love Parade.

It's been going on

for quite a long time.

Love Y O U - Good Luck,

Cloudia & Pixie

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* Down the Rabbit Hole: 

The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo, and aureole are used in Christian religious art. — Manly Hall

Learning To

A  L  O  H  A !

Learning to get past

 your first reaction

Opens a whole new 

world to you!

The change you dread,

Can bring what you

Want the most.

We are ALL PEERS 

in the work of Life -

Love one another to

Save the world

Linking To

Floral Friday

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Thank YOU

Friend!

            Fondly, cloudia

Last Dance

ALOHA, Donna Summer

 It was a time,

what a time it was;

New Liberation

and no AIDS yet,

or even GRID.

Dancing was freedom

Dancing was who we were,

what we were about.

Night after night,

every night

of the week.

The "General Public"

knew nothing of it!

 It was a secret,

on the back streets.

There was

NO RAINBOW FLAG

as yet.

But there was 

DANCING.

Hip people

can roll their eyes,

but back then,

before John Travolta

or the BEE GEES

heard the beat,

it was

ours.

The "Club Kids"

and the "Rave Kids"

didn't

invent

ecstatic dancing.


We didn't invent it either,
but we 
re-discovered
and lived it!

It goes back

to the beginning.

Every Gay Bar

in the world

wrapped up the night

with Donna Summer's

"Last Dance."

I'm sure many still do.

They will tonight
for sure.

Tonight

in Heaven

a LOT of people

dear to me

who died TOO young

are dancing their

 ASSES OFF!

Get me a drink friends,

cause I'm gonna rip it up

when I get there!

Thanks for stopping by 

the wake

YOU are my friend

and YOU

are 

APPRECIATED! 

Fondly, cloudia

pedestals

A L O H A

              

 

Moloch 

whose mind is pure machinery!

Moloch whose blood is running money!

Moloch whose fingers are ten armies!

Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!

Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! 

Allen Ginsberg
  Howl and Other Poems

 

 

 

 

 "A School Boy in Hawaii"

Dr. Sun Yat-sen

Age 13

Artist: Chu Tat Shing, 2007

Gift to our city by the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawaii Foundation

"This is my Hawaii. . .

here I was brought up and educated,

and it was here that I came to know

what modern, civilized governments are like

and what they mean."

Dr. Sun Yat-sen

He came to the islands from Zhongshan

in 1879 at age 13.

His Revive China Society was founded here.

 

"A pedestal

is as much a prison

as any small, confined space. "

 
Gloria Steinem

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What's on YOUR pedestal?

What do you REALLY

f e a r

&

s e r v e

?

Is your God 

unconditionally loving,

holding the door of forgiveness open

way past dark?

 Or rigid and correct,

tricking people

into messing up

for the pleasure of

judgment,

punishment?

All 

'rules cast in cement'

?

Is your belief

an IDOL

instead of

an inspiration

?

please leave a comment, 

        "Huh?" is acceptable :-) cloudia