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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Clear Gifts
A L O H A !
I so enjoy celebrating with YOU.
Enjoy the peaceful place
you are growing to know.
Let the parade pass by
without joining it.
Today is full of gifts
if we stop all the self-talk
and notice them.
Clear the space. Clear your mind.
It will come back
fresher and better
when needed.
Right now
your critical faculties
are off-line for
maintenance,
and that's a
Good Thing .
You are safe.
You are happy
with
developments and
new joys in your life.
Tomorrow suddenly has
as many
happy anticipations,
as it used to have
chore-lists and worries.
You
accomplish all that is needed
and MORE.
Appreciate the pleasure
and
power
and freedom
of being YOU.
It's been too easy to focus
on
boundaries and limitations.
But the scope of your happiness
is well
within
the golden bounds
of possibility.
What you want most
is at hand.
Reach For It!
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I so enjoy celebrating with YOU.
Thanks!
Warmly, cloudia
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Animal Ounces
A L O H A !
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Elbert Green Hubbard
| Golden Plover - Kolea in Hawaiian |
You can have
a Spirit Companion Animal
to teach you
life lessons,
to be with you
guiding & protecting.
| Indian Myna |
Dream of your animal,
see your companion
out of the corner of your eye
as you fall asleep. . . . .
| Red-crested Cardinal, Paroaria coronata, |
synchronous appearances
of an animal,
their
image, stories, words,
will reveal your friend.
Give it a name.
Speak to your
Spirit Animal.
Appreciate your
Animal Friend
until it is most real to you.
Even when you are at work,
and your pet
at home,
under the couch,
your pet is real,
alive, and
loving
you.
Spirit Animals
are like that too. . . .
" Sometimes
the heart sees
what is invisible
to the eye. "
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Your animal companion
is a representative
of an ancient companionable
wisdom.
" An ounce of loyalty
is worth
a pound of
cleverness. "
Elbert Green Hubbard
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Friday, March 22, 2013
Plenty to See
A L O H A !
1 - 2 - 3
Plenty to See
Plenty to Be
You & Me
Light & Shadow:
Splendor in the Grass
Splendor in the Grass
And so another day doth pass-
Hawaii Style.
" There is a fountain of youth:
it is your mind,
your talents,
the creativity you bring
to your life
and the lives of people
you love.
When you learn
to tap this source,
you will truly have
defeated age. "
Sophia Loren
Seeing YOU here
is one of the
GOOD THINGS!
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" There is a fountain of youth:
it is your mind,
your talents,
the creativity you bring
to your life
and the lives of people
you love.
When you learn
to tap this source,
you will truly have
defeated age. "
Sophia Loren
Seeing YOU here
is one of the
GOOD THINGS!
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Do Leave Your Comment
Warmly, Cloudia
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Obama in Israel
President Barack Obama’s speech to
Israeli students
in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013.
“So long as there is a United States of America,
ah-tem lo lah-vahd” (you are not alone). “
When I think about Israel’s security,
I think about five Israelis who boarded a bus in Bulgaria, who were blown up because of where they came from; robbed of the ability to live, and love, and raise families. That’s why every country that values justice should call Hezbollah what it truly is — a terrorist organization. Because the world cannot tolerate an organization that murders innocent civilians, stockpiles rockets to shoot at cities, and supports the massacre of men and women and children in Syria right now. . .
. . .For young Israelis, I know that these issues of security are rooted in an experience that is even more fundamental than the pressing threat of the day. You live in a neighborhood where many of your neighbors have rejected the right of your nation to exist. Your grandparents had to risk their lives and all that they had to make a place for themselves in this world. Your parents lived through war after war to ensure the survival of the Jewish state. Your children grow up knowing that people they’ve never met may hate them because of who they are, in a region that is full of turmoil and changing underneath your feet. . .
But the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, their right to justice, must also be recognized. . .
Put yourself in their shoes. Look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own. Living their entire lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements not just of those young people but their parents, their grandparents, every single day. It’s not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished. It’s not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands; or restricting a student’s ability to move around the West Bank; or displace Palestinian families from their homes Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer. Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land.
I’m going off script here for a second, but before I came here, I met with a group of young Palestinians from the age of 15 to 22. And talking to them, they weren’t that different from my daughters. They weren’t that different from your daughters or sons. I honestly believe that if any Israeli parent sat down with those kids, they’d say,
I want these kids to succeed; I want them to prosper. I want them to have opportunities just like my kids do. I believe that’s what Israeli parents would want for these kids if they had a chance to listen to them and talk to them. I believe that. . . .
The President's words
touched me deeply.
All I can say:
AMEN
Imagine Yourself
A L O H A !
" Smooth seas
do not make for a
skillful sailor. "
African Proverb
" Cease trying
to work everything out
with your minds.
It will get you nowhere.
Live by intuition
and inspiration
and let your whole life
be Revelation. "
Eileen Caddy
" Life is only a dream
and we are
the imagination
of ourselves. "
Bill Hicks
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Warmly, cloudiaWednesday, March 20, 2013
Feminine Skies
A L O H A !
Tiny Birds at Left, Sun-Egg in Nest
" Mysteries
are feminine;
they like to veil themselves
but still want to be seen and
divined. "
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Is this_
why I have been_
such a mystery_
to myself?_
" Debate is masculine,
conversation
is feminine."
Amos Bronson Alcott
Masculine-ism
'debated' my femininity
away from the controls
of me
for a long time.
Femininity is frivolous.
I want to be taken seriously.
Yes, they like to look,
and to touch,
BUT I am
MORE!
" You throw like a girl! "
School Yard Taunt;
worst thing peers
can say to a boy.
School Yard Taunt;
worst thing peers
can say to a boy.
" The ideal man
bears the accidents of life
with dignity and grace,
making the best
of circumstances. "
Aristotle
“ The hardest part
has been learning how
to take myself seriously
when the entire world
is constantly telling me
that femininity is always
inferior to masculinity. ”
Julia Serano
But Feminism Valued
the Feminine, right?
" As a result
of the feminist revolution,
'feminine'
becomes an abusive
epithet. "
Wyndham Lewis
Oh
nor more beautiful,
than a woman being
unapologetically herself;
comfortable in her perfect
imperfection.
To me, that is the true
essence of beauty. "
Hussein Nishah
" I am rediscovering
the whole sexual dimension
of life at the age of 86, really.
And that also means discovering
the feminine.
So the whole of this dimension,
which I had been seeking
for a very long time,
is now sort of
opening itself up to
me. "
Bede Griffiths
" Feminine passion
is to masculine
as an epic
is to an
epigram."
Karl Kraus _
Being a Girl,
Being a Boy
Source of life's
mystery,
sorrows,
and Joy.
A feminine sky?
I suppose it is one
in which
a Cloudia Voyages.
Gentlemen,
are you thunder
& lightning?
Ladies,
Ah Ladies. . . . .
So Chore - y
yet touched with
Glory
are we!
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