FULL-ON FORWARD: A COMMENT ON OUR SOCIETY, LINSEY LOHAN, US SOLDIERS

FULL-ON FORWARD: A COMMENT ON OUR SOCIETY, LINSEY LOHAN, US SOLDIERS

Recognize any of these names? Did they make the news????

Justin Allen, 23,

Brett Linley, 29,

Matthew Weikert, 29,

Justus Bartett, 27,
Dave Santos, 21,

Chase Stanley, 21,

Jesse Reed, 26,

Matthew Johnson, 21,
Zachary Fisher, 24,

Brandon King, 23,

Christopher Goeke, 23,

and Sheldon Tate, 27,

are all Marines that gave their lives for you this week.

Equanimity

Aloha!

Your seat is ready

“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show.


When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.”


George Carlin

Tree-Hugger



“They may forget what you said,

but they will never forget how you made them feel.”


Carl W. Buechner

"There is no such thing as pure pleasure;

some anxiety always goes with it."

- Ovid




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One day

we awake with a start

and realize how little of any consequence

we have accomplished.



Then somehow we understand

that nothing really needs to be accomplished.


And the impact we have had on others

for good or ill,

great or small,

must remain a blessed mystery


until illumination


or oblivion. . .

Musing Dignified

It's Aloha Sunday. . .
Wanna Hang Out Here a While?

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around,

and don't let anybody tell you different.”


Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

"All theory, dear friend, is gray,

but the golden tree of life springs ever green."


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Noble Nipple Fruit
now dazzling Foster Botanical Garden.




"Memory is a child walking along a seashore.

You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up

and store away among its treasured things."


~Pierce Harris



Thanks for being a bloggy pal!

Four Squares

Aloha to YOU!

EARTH
A tiny plant grows on a lava rock . . .



"Behold, my friends,

the spring is come;

the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun,

and we shall soon see the results of their love!"


Sitting Bull

WATER
We go to the sea for recreation, healing & wisdom.


When we are born

our bodies are about 78% water.

As we age, that goes to 55 to 60%

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“Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water?

All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea,

and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday”

Zora Neale Hurston

FIRE


"To poke a wood fire

is more solid enjoyment

than almost anything else in the world."

~Charles Dudley Warner




"The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire."

~Leigh Hunt


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"The fire you kindle for your enemy

often burns yourself more than them."

~Chinese Proverb


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"Life is a flame that is always burning itself out,

but it catches fire again every time a child is born."

~George Bernard Shaw



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AIR


“Those who dwell among the beauties

and mysteries of the earth

are never alone or weary of life.”

Rachel Carson

Gay - Tra La

Aloha Web Surfer!




you know, you can click on these photos...

At Diamond Head's skirts.
See the air-born surfer-blur?
The barge loaded with goods for a neighbor island?

"One of the things I like about jazz, kid,


is I don't know what's going to happen next.


Do you?"


-- Bix Beiderbecke

Driving Lesson




"The best substitute for experience


is being sixteen."


~Raymond Duncan

Tree of Souls


"You will find something more in woods than in books.


Trees and stones will teach you


that which you can never learn from masters."


Saint Bernard



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"I like trees


because they seem more resigned


to the way they have to live than other things do."


Willa Cather




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It is not at all FAIR

to say that we are bigots.

We don't hate you.

We simply want you to respect

what we believe deeply:

that your relationship is wrong.

In fact, it's icky

and should be hidden completely.

But we are not bigots!

Our principle

is just more important

than your family's

emotional,

legal,

financial

security.

Why can't you see that?

Why this agenda to be full citizens?

It's really very simple:

We fall in love with violins playing,

you perversely choose perversion

just to be difficult -

Simple,

See?

Hano Hano O Maui

Web-Brained

Mirror-Face


"Trust is like a mirror,

you can fix it if it's broken,

but you can still see the crack

in that mother fuckers reflection."



— Lady Gaga and Beyonce`

Tiny Surfers - Big Ocean



“The more you lose yourself

in something bigger than yourself,

the more energy you will have.”


Norman Vincent Peale

Again with the reflections.



"Reflective thinking


turns experience


into insight."




- John Maxwell



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My attentions have followed the cultural elite


right off a cliff


into a short-attention-span state



like that of Brave Ulysses.


I am beguiled by the siren posts


of you other dreamers.


My attention and time are spent


but with the metabolism of a bird


distracted by the shining web-tinsel;


Our formerly serviceable minds


now hop and tweet


from limb to limb


never alighting long enough


to sing a novella,


build the nest of description,

or (sometimes) a career. . .


. . . Tweet Tweet!


Aloha fellow web-brain :)