Rest Be Kind

A  L  O  H  A !

 I love the progress

of the day.

Time flies when

we're having fun.

Rest and be kind, you don’t 

have to prove anything. 

                  Jack Kerouac

Don't You love

Morning Noon 

& Night?

I don't feed the birds 

because they need me; 

I feed the birds because 

I need them.

        Kathi Hutton

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Love You!

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Don't Become What You Hate

A  L  O  H  A !

 " 'Resist not evil,' 

for all passionate conflicts 

result in an interchange

 of characteristics."

Neville Goddard

"In spite of the many sins of omission 

and commission against the Indians 

that I had laid at the door of the Municipality, 

I could not help commending it's 

solicitude for the white citizens, and 

I rendered as much help as I could 

in it's laudable efforts." 

              Gandhi ca 1900

"It is my faith, based on experience, 

that if one's heart is pure, 

calamity brings in it's train 

men [sic] and measures to fight it."

                         Gandhi

You cannot police the behavior of others.

But you can choose your own response

if you do not immediately react.

Don't take it personally. Choose.

Buddha was walking with some

traveling companions when an

angry person began yelling and

berating him. Buddha remained

quite calm. At the end of the day,

his friends asked him about the 

incident and received this question:

"If someone gives you something,

and you do not accept it,

who does it belong to?"

Don't make the problems of others

your own! Just keep walking as

you have chosen to do. Do right as

you understand it impartially.

THIS is what changes the world.

Linking To
Thankful Thursday
SkyWatch

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Thanks, Friend!

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Shadow and Lights

A  L  O  H  A !

Hawaii Theater

After the film it was raining, 

a light steady rain. 

Ruthless neon on the 

wet streets like busted candy.

                Denis Johnson

I thought the most beautiful thing

in the world must be shadow.

             Sylvia Plath

Everything has beauty, 

but not everyone sees it.

          Confucius

No one is useless in this world 

who lightens the burden of it 

for anyone else.

             Charles Dickens

Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday

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Y O U

are the 

point!

                  Warmly, cloudia

My Woodstock

A  L  O  H  A !

I made some leather macrame belts

and sold them to a shop.

Then I bought the tickets above.

It was the Summer I turned 16

and I bought my first motorcycle. 

 "2005 Ford GT" by marco_ely is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0  

Thursday night we drove up to 
New York State from southeast Pennsylvania

in an older friend's car that I remember 

as a low slung, white Ford GT40 Link  

very like photo above. Wow! My life at 

that time sounds exciting! 

It was. 1969.

 We woke up surrounded by thousands of friends, reports of closed highways, and no fences. Tucked the tickets in my pocket and lingered till saturday when it was just too much. 

We hadn't bought food, intending to buy at the concessions. Apparently most others thought the same. People shared what meagre provisions they happened to have. I recall savoring cherry flavoured Rizzla cigarette papers. 

All was peaceful and upbeat including friendly cops directing traffic who good naturedly refused proffered joints. People all seemed relaxed 
and happy just to be there. Be cool, man. 

Who knew there were SO many freaks?! That's what we called ourselves. Hippie is an invented word by outsiders, disdainful adults, Press. Max Yasgur owner of the land summed up what many initially angry locals had to say about us:

"I’m a farmer…(interrupted by a cheer from the audience)…

I don’t know how to speak to twenty people at one time, let alone a crowd like this. But I think you people have proven something to the world — not only to the Town of Bethel, or Sullivan County, or New York State; you’ve proven something to the world. This is the largest group of people ever assembled in one place. We have had no idea that there would be this size group, and because of that you’ve had quite a few inconveniences as far as water, food, and so forth. Your producers have done a mammoth job to see that you’re taken care of… they’d enjoy a vote of thanks. But above that, the important thing that you’ve proven to the world is that a half a million kids — and I call you kids because I have children that are older than you are — a half million young people can get together and have three days of fun and music and have nothing but fun and music, and I – God Bless You for it!”

I cry reading that now, as tears have flowed watching news about
the anniversary on TV News.

Saturday afternoon, we somehow got out on rural roads. I remember mud, and huge crowds of nice people. The performances were WAY down there and tiny. The press of the crowd any closer was too much for me despite the good vibes. I do seem to remember Richie Havens (who I had seen at the Second Fret in Philadelphia Link) kicking it off all by himself with just his guitar and great showmanship. 

Yes, I bought tickets and 

so helped pay for it all. 

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PEACE, LOVE & UNDERSTANDING

to YOU!

                       cloudia

ca 1980

Capacity To Care

A  L  O  H  A !

 Click on Photo to Enlarge

Practice kindness all day

to everybody and

you will realize 

you’re already in 

heaven now.

            Jack Kerouac

 The most potent muse of all 

is our own inner child. 

           Stephen Nachmanovitch

Robert Wilcox

The capacity to care

is what gives life it's

deepest significance. 

                    Pablo Casals

Linking To

Monday Murals

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So Happy YOU came by!

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Willing Compassion

A  L  O  H  A !

If we look at the world
 with a love of life, 

the world will reveal 
its beauty to us.

             Daisaku Ikeda 

Those who are willing to be vulnerable 

move among the mysteries. 

            Theodore Roethke

Compassion will cure more sins 

than condemnation. 

        Henry Ward Beecher

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You Me Us

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The Dream

A  L  O  H  A !

To hope and dream is not 

to ignore the practical. 

It is to dress it in 

colors and rainbows.

           Anne Wilson Schaef

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. 

                                Joyce Meyer

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep,

Tall trees of peace their vigil keep,

And the Fairy of Dreams 

with moth-wings furled

Plays soft on her flute 

to the drowsy world.

            Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

             Bertrand Russell

Linking To
Saturday Critters

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