Clearer

A  L  O  H  A !

   " You can fly away,

 In the sky away  


  You more lucky  

 than me." 

 Yellow Bird, 

Jamaican Tradtional

[ I believe this is a

Citril Finch 

also called a 

Corsican Finch

 (Serinus citrinella) ]

HERE

" The moment a little boy

 is concerned with which is a jay 

and which is a sparrow, 

he can no longer see the birds

 or hear them sing. "

Eric Berne

" The sparrow that is twittering

 on the edge of my balcony

 is calling up to me this moment

 a world of memories 

that reach over half my lifetime, 

and a world of hope

 that stretches farther

 than any flight 

of sparrows. "

Donald G. Mitchell

    " Did your lady friend   

 leave the nest again?   


   That is very bad,   

   Makes me feel so sad. "

" Nothing

 can bring you peace 

but yourself. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Wish that I was a yellow bird,
I fly away with you.
But I am not a yellow bird
So I sit, nothing else to do. "

Jamaican Folk Tune

" But time growing old

teaches all things. "


Aeschylus

@_@

Since Dad passed

a lot about my life

about me

has become

clearer

to me.

The Story of Me

comes into focus

an insight at a

time.

Comedy & tragedy

obstacles surmounted,

years spent

(wasted?)

opportunities unnoticed

(lost!).

But I'm not sad

about all that.

It is

what 

It Is.

And that,

the IS-

not the 

was, or should have been,

or wasn't-

The IS

just is,

and it's alright

with me.

Some war is over.

Most humans

throughout our history

have felt the ancestors

to be important 

in daily life

and destiny.

Care is given

to remember

and honor them.

I feel my Dad

moving Heaven

and Earth

for me.

Thank YOU
for  visiting!


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A Jar of Delight

A  L  O  H  A !

 " To be afraid

is to behave

as if the Truth

were not

true. "

Bayard Rustin

 " Never think

you've seen the last

of anything. "

Eudora Welty 

" From Persia to the Chinese sea
   from the icy regions of Siberia
 to Islands of Java and Borneo,
India has propagated her beliefs,
 her tales,
 and her civilization."

Sylvia Levi

" Every object, 

every being,
is a jar

 full of delight. "

RUMI

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for visiting,

Friend!

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Love's Green Lanterns

A  L  O  H  A !

" Changing the world 

begins
with the very personal process 

of changing yourself,

the only place you can begin 

is where you are, 

and the only time you can begin

 is always now. "
 

Gary Zukav

" Great deeds

 are usually wrought

 at great risks. "

Herodotus

" A power struggle 

collapses
when you withdraw 

your energy

 from it.

Power struggles

 become uninteresting to you

 when you change your intention

 from winning 

to learning 

about yourself. "
 

 Gary Zukav & Linda Francis 

 "from"The Heart of the Soul"

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Each one has

a Soul

Even when

they themselves

do not know it,

believe it,

act like it.

Focusing

on the symptoms

of that disconnect

doesn't help

in ANY way-

Energy Flows

Where Attention

Goes.

Invest

your attention

in the 

Pleasing,

water that 

 growth.

Thank you

 for airing YOUr Soul

 here a while

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Forth Going

A  L  O  H  A !

Moving Day

“We must be willing 

to let go

 of the life we have planned,

 so as to accept

 the life

 that is waiting for us.” 

 Joseph Campbell

" We cannot change anything

until we accept it.

Condemnation

does not liberate,

it oppresses. "

C. G. Jung

" A man travels the world over

 in search of what he needs 

and returns home 

to find it. "

 George Moore

Red-crested Cardinal 

(Paroaria coronata)

“How do geese 

know when to fly to the sun?

Who tells them the seasons?

How do we, humans 

know when it is time to move on?

As with the migrant birds,

 so surely with us,
there is a voice within

if only we would listen to it,
that tells us certainly

 when to go forth 

into the unknown.”  

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Thank YOU

for landing here a while.

Your visit

is appreciated.

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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! 

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And So Do I

A L O H A !

There are no perfect people 

to our way of seeing - 

But each of us 

is well pleasing, 

priceless, 

and perfecting 

to the eyes of

LOVE.

" You can't depend on your eyes

 when your imagination

 is out of focus.  "

Mark Twain

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R E D

A  L  O  H  A !

“Out of the ash

 I rise 

with my red hair ”

  

 Sylvia Plath

" It was a town of red brick, 

or of brick that would have been red 

if the smoke and ashes had allowed it;

 but, as matters stood

 it was a town of unnatural red 

 and black 

as the painted face of a savage. "

 CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens

" In the house of words 

was a table of colors. 

They offered themselves

 in great fountains 

and each poet

 took the color he needed: 

lemon yellow or sun yellow,

 ocean blue or smoke blue, 

crimson red, blood red, 

wine red. "

Eduardo Galeano



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