Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Gently Walking Home

A   L   O   H   A  !
What can we gain by sailing to the moon
 if we are not able to cross the abyss that 
separates us from ourselves? 
This is the most important of 
all voyages of discovery.
        Thomas Merton







Gently direct your mind.
Steady your attention
on that which you choose:
The reality to be
Real-ized.
It is all about the
person you desire to Be.












Do not seek to dam the flow.
Ignore the mental traffic;
Let it roll on, while you
gently return and hold
what you seek before your
inner eye.




















Taming Ego, nothing less,
takes patience more than strength.
One day at a time.

If you are trying,
you are trying too hard.

Sit in the cave that is you.
and be surprised
as the light grows within.

Your private meditating time
will become a lovers rendezvous.
Every time, the person you become
grows into the person you are.

You grow effortlessly
because it's really not
about effort.

Just go every day to 
sit with your best self,
and you will come to wonder
if you were ever
anyone less.

Simply dwell on what you seek
as if it is Here & Now.
Until It Is.

Things in the world
may be known.
Things of the Spirit
you must Become.


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Love You,
                                       cloudia


Monday, February 10, 2020

Tropic Morning Moon and Midnight

A   L   O   H   A  !
The moon does not care 
if the dog barks at it.
     Czech Proverb
















No matter how fast moonlight runs, 
daylight catches up. 
            Virgin Islander Proverb




















The moon is fat and the 
night air is so pure 
it seems edible. 
          Roberto BolaƱo



While I was staying in California,
a rather older woman was telling
about her teen years in the Pacific
Islands as a military dependent
in the wake of WWII.

"We swam under moonlight
among the remains of battles.
I'm sure it was dangerous,
and our parents would have
disapproved, but those are
some of my best memories.
In the tropics, you do not 
end at your skin. The air is
balmy, warm, moist,
and you seem to go on
forever, merging with it;
Your soul seems to
reach into the sky, and
rendezvous with the moon."

Never was I more homesick!

Writing this to you now,
I have never been more grateful
to simply be home.









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Love You,
                                cloudia



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Sunday, February 9, 2020

Capable

A   L   O   H   A  !
6:08 am

The moon puts on an elegant show, 
different every time in shape, 
colour and nuance.
       Arthur Smith


You can be the moon 
and still be jealous 
of the stars.     
Gary Allan










Truth was never meant to 
make you comfortable, 
unless you stand in the 
middle of it with acceptance.
              Shannon L. Alder














So as long as a person 
is capable of self-renewal, 
they are a living being. 
                 Henri Frederic Amiel 







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Love You,
                                       cloudia











Saturday, February 8, 2020

Mergansers

A   L   O   H   A  !
As water reflects the face, 
so one’s life reflects 
the heart.
        Proverb












What we focus on outside is a 
reflection of what we feel inside.
                 Anonymous



























 You attract what you are, 
not what you want. 
So if you want it 
then reflect it.
         Tony Gaskins














More About Mergansers Here

Better to do something imperfectly 
than to do nothing perfectly.
            Robert H. Schuller 

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Friday, February 7, 2020

Possibility

A   L   O   H   A  !
God puts rainbows in the clouds 
so that each of us - in the dreariest 
and most dreaded moments - 
can see a possibility of hope.     
      Maya Angelou










Photograph: a picture painted 
by the sun without 
instruction in art.  
          Ambrose Bierce













Sunset is still my favorite color, 
and rainbow is second. 
          Mattie Stepanek Link










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Love You,
                                     cloudia




Thursday, February 6, 2020

Waikiki Winter At Last

A   L   O   H   A  !
Honolulu 7:14 am

Spending Four Winters:
2015-'16, '16-'17, '17-'18, '18-2019
on North America, even the 
San Francisco Bay Area,
has made me a 
worshiper of Sun













I'm Very Thankful To Be Home

Where we love is home, 
home that our feet may leave, 
but not our hearts.
         Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.










The most important trip you may take 
in life is meeting people half way.
           Henry Boyle





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Love You,
                       cloudia


Waikiki Winter Wear Feb, 2020
   

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Honolulu Street Ramble

A   L   O   H   A  !
Click On Photo to Enlarge
And that sweet city 
with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for 
beauty's heightening...
    Matthew Arnold














The life of our city is rich 
in poetic and marvelous subjects. 
We are enveloped and steeped 
as though in an atmosphere 
of the marvelous; but 
we do not notice it.
          Charles Baudelaire










Protect The Mops!

Any city however small, 
is in fact divided into two, 
one the city of the poor, 
the other of the rich.
These are at war 
with one another.
    Plato









Brazilian Cardinal Link

They cannot take away 
our self-respect if we 
do not give it to them.
     Mahatma Gandhi


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