Handy Thing to Have About

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Photography is what

emotions look like. Jon Luvelli

In 1943, the governor of Hawaiʻi offered

Punchbowl [crater above] for use as a national memorial cemetery; in February 1948 Congress approved funding and construction began.

The first interment was made Jan. 4, 1949.

The cemetery opened to the public on July 19, 1949, with services for five war dead: an unknown serviceman, two Marines, an Army lieutenant and one civilian—noted war correspondent Ernie Pyle.

Read more about Puowaina (Hawaiian place name) including it's Geologic and Cultural significance Here

The Dialogue between the flag behind the truck
and the African Tulips in the tree is delightful to me
'What are you doing down there?'
'Just hanging around!'

Tell them I was arrested

for carrying concealed ideas!

"Machine Gun" Jack McGurn

Each of us finds their

 unique vehicle for

sharing with others

our bit of wisdom.

Suffering is part of

our training program

for becoming wise.

 Ram Dass

A quotation is a handy thing

to have about, saving one the

trouble of thinking for oneself,

always a laborious business.

A. A. Milne

অঅঅঅঅঅঅঅঅঅআ

Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

.

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Nature Thursday

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Discover what the world was searching for this year:

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See YOU At Life's Beach ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A  L  O  H  A !

Bless the flowers and the weeds, 

my birds and bees.

"It was pride that 

changed angels to devils; 

it is humility that makes 

humans as angels."

         Saint Augustine

"Keep your conscious mind busy

with expectations of the BEST,

and your subconscious

will faithfully reproduce

your habitual thinking 

in your emotions and

experiences!"

     Dr. Joseph Murphy

            Link

Lately I have been rereading

books from my youth.

Reading Dr. Murphy's classic

"The Power Of Your Subconscious" 

has really impressed me with how

influential his ideas have been in 

my life, and over a lifetime.

I see clearly in retrospect

how these ideas changed my days,

my ways, my thinking,

Lest that sound a bit intimidating,

I hurry to add that all the changes

were in the manner of a wonderful

voyage of discovery! I thoroughly

enjoyed my new habits and  their results!

I had no money. I had no prospects.

In fact, I had big obstacles to clear!

But every day after work,

I sat back in the sunniest spot

in my New York apartment,

closed my eyes, and basked

in the same sun [I told myself]

that was shining on the lucky people

on the beach at Waikiki.

I really came to look forward to my daily

Hawaii vacation throughout those 

Northern Winters of icy slush.

 I Added music.

I could almost hear the surf.

Anything to make it realer to myself

behind my closed eyes

feeling the sun on my face

I did.

Well, I changed my thinking,

and my life DID change in many

great ways. And I lived in Waikiki for

almost 30 years in real life!

Re-reading Joseph Murphy,

who came before The Secret,

or ALL the New Age books,

has also made me realize

that even though these ideas 

have really permeated my thinking

and my life in many ways,

I needed to refresh the power.

Becoming EVEN more confident,

more interested in life,

even HEALTHIER!

Imagine if I really took the time

every day, to practice this

Inner Vacation Of Positivity & Pleasure

and brought these ways back to the foreground!

Imagine it!

So I'm sharing this with you

because it has proved life-changing,

yet every-day, and reliable to me

over decades from youth forward.

See you on the beach, my DEAR.

Linking To:

Macro Monday2   

Our World Tuesday

שׁשׂשּׁשּשׁשׂשּׁשּׂשׁשׂשּׁשּׂשּ

Thank YOU

Friend!

                 Warmly, cloudia

Shadows of Palm

A  L  O  H  A !

"Reality is nothing but 

a collective hunch." 

                                 Jane Wagner

Linking to

Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Thanks, Hon!

Timothy Leary, Cary Grant, and Me

A L O H A !

They warned us: 

we would never "be the same."

You might say that of living itself.

So, sensing their lies

and limits

we sailed psychedelic seas,

waves of sense, of light,

of meaning.

We kissed far shores

of reality.

Even today

Weird juxtapositions,

 conjunctions of sights

recall those voyages.

You may call it 

"Flashback"

I call it grace -

The world shows its faces

it's graces in smears of light 

and love.

It  can all be a bit much

for good old Normal Mind!

Take the poor dear by the hand,

patting same comfortingly.

It all WILL be

O. K.

Horizon Gazing 

is a capitol cure 

to reassure.

The Sky is a sigh 
of confidence,

and eternal love

" Learning how 

to operate a soul

 figures to take time. "

              Timothy Leary

" My intention in taking LSD 
was to make myself happy. 
A man would be a fool 
to take something that 
didn't make him happy. 

We deceived ourselves by calling it therapy,
but we were truly interested in 
how this chemical could help humanity. "
                                                Cary Grant

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Gosh I was young

but I was there:

Irvine Auditorium
link 

at the Univ. of Pennsylvania

1970 when Timothy Leary

spoke to 2,500

about the new frontiers

of mental exploration

link.

He thought that 

the US President,

Congress,

educational leaders,

all needed to know

the Psychedelic experience

in order for society,

for Humanity,

to reach the next

beckoning evolution.

At the after event,

I took my I Ching
Link

from my backpack

and cast a reading for 

the good doctor.

"You are going to jail."

The oracle was pretty clear.

I felt obligated, as teens are,

to inform him.

The president never

explored LSD

(to the best of my knowledge)

but Timothy Leary DID

spend lots of time in jail.

Just saying. . . .

Let Your Freak Flag Fly!

&

Thank YOU

for tripping here!

Your Pal,

                                  cloudia

" Cary Grant was the first mainstream celebrity to espouse the virtues of psychedelic drugs. Grant was one of the biggest stars Hollywood had to offer when he jumped headlong into . . . endorsement of subconscious exploration, arguably, created more interest in LSD than Dr. Timothy Leary. . . the fantasy of countless Midwestern women. He convinced wholesome movie starlets like Esther Williams and Dyan Cannon to blow their minds. When Ladies Home Journal and Good Housekeeping interviewed him, Cary Grant was telling happy homemakers that LSD was the greatest thing in the world. "

He tripped on LSD more than 100 times, 

prescribed by his psychiatrist.

Link

Watching the Wheels

Aloha 

& Welcome to My Waikiki. . .

"Remember

not only to say the right thing

in the right place,

but

to leave unsaid

the wrong thing

at the tempting moment."

Ben Franklin

 Sometimes

we feel hemmed in,

like we've come to a dead

 end.

 But a shift in perspective,

perhaps

a glance over or around the obstacle. . . 

Just for today

I will be happy.

Everywhere I go

there are people to love

including myself.

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So many wonderful blogs!

There is just NO way I can visit each of you,

my favorites,

as often as I wish. . .

I hope you understand. . .

You enrich my life

and are much appreciated!

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"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."

I had studied till I could study no more.

Now I just had to get all that information

intact to the midterm examinations.

Nothing could be permitted to disturb

my edifice of facts;

Tomorrow I would write my essays

in that blue book

proving my comprehension.

Now I must sleep.

Just a few moments of music.

I turned the radio on.

"We repeat: John Lennon has been shot in New York.

No reports yet on his condition."

Suddenly

my exams seemed trivial.

How can I explain?

Fortunately, I don't really need to:

his lyrical genius

and his brilliant irreverence

touched the whole world.

For us,

his voice was the sound

of our growing up:

Pop that changed the sound of the world.

Explorations in consciousness.

A plea for PEACE.

Music and ideas

that expanded with OUR consciousness.

I loved John.

Today would have been his 70th birthday.

My path has not always made sense to those around me,

or even to myself;

but it has been 

honest as it has been

idiosyncratic.

John modelled the courage

to follow your personal genius,

to follow your heart

to give yourself fully

to that which you love.

I have always loved the song below

and identified with it.

All I am saying

is give peace with yourself

a chance.

Make it count.

Because John was right:

Life IS what happens

while we make other plans.

We make plans

and God laughs.

So laugh along.

Cry some too. . .

Thanks for being

my friend!  cloudia 

Golden Rules

Aloha Friend!

Click on the photos

Home Sweet Home - Hawaiian Style

"...if Americans felt the level of economic security that people take for granted in, say, Germany, France, or Denmark, it would be a huge improvement over what we have now. People should be able to count on healthcare, a decent retirement, and other basic necessities of life. To a large extent, even upper-middle-class Americans can't assume this level of security."

"There is an incredible elitism in the idea that autoworkers, steelworkers, and textile workers are losing their jobs or facing pay cuts because they don't have enough skills or education to compete in the twenty-first century economy . . . Plenty of foreign doctors would be delighted to come here and work for less than most American doctors, but they are not allowed to because our doctors are protected by trade agreements. Yet in these same trade agreements conservatives dismantle protections for American blue-collar workers, calling the protections

'barriers to trade.'"

"I don't think we have a free market model.

what we have is the wealthy using their power to control government

and shape the rules in ways that redistribute wealth upward.

The so-called free-marketers don't want the market left alone;

they just want the government to structure the market to serve their interests. . .

Show me someone who's made lots of money, and I'll show you how we wrote the

rules so that he or she made money."

Two creatures sharing a moment, yet unaware of one another.

"In the three decades prior to 1980 the U.S. economy was relatively strong. It grew steadily, productivity increased rapidly, the unemployment rate was low, and the benefits of that economic growth were shared widely.

It was a virtuous circle in which more productivity translated into wage increases, which gave people more buying power, which translated into more demand. . .

But as unions lost strength, gains in productivity didn't translate into wage growth. Instead the benefits of all that productivity increasingly went to those at the top. . . Reagan also blocked increases to the minimum wage which meant that the real value of the minimum wage was eroded each year by inflation. Average American workers saw their real wages stagnate between 1980 and 1995.

Because many people were losing income,

borrowing was the only way they could maintain their standard of living."

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Perhaps you've heard it said

that the Golden Rule means

that those who have the gold

make all the rules.

In 2002, economist Dean Baker wrote a piece called:

The Run-up in Home Prices: Is It Real or Is It Another Bubble?

His reasoned predictions of a Bust where ignored.

He is co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research [CEPR]

and posts a popular blog at the American Prospect [Here].

The quotes above where taken from an interview

in the February 2010 issue of The Sun

[Here]

He ended the interview by saying:

"People are looking for alternatives.

The dominant economic paradigm is hugely vulnerable.

We just need to reframe the debate."

ALOHA! cloudia