Aloha Initiative

A  L  O  H  A  !

" We have more possibilities available

 in each moment than we realize. "

Thich Nhat Hanh 

" Take Me To Your Leader. "

" After one look at this planet 

any visitor from outer space would say

 'I want to see the manager.'  "

William S. Burroughs 

Two Faces of Dali

" Each morning when I awake, 

I experience again

 a supreme pleasure - 

that of being Salvador Dali. "

Salvador Dali 

" I don't do drugs.

 I am drugs. "

Salvador Dali 

" Throw your dreams into space like a kite, 

and you do not know what it will bring back, 

a new life, a new friend, 

a new love, 

a new country. "

Anais Nin

Hello Kitty Goes Native

" It is in the nature of cats 

to do a certain amount 

of unescorted roaming. "

Adlai Stevenson

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 The Aloha Initiative is  a local, non-profit organization that has invited some of the Japanese people most affected by the March natural disasters

to come to Hawaii. 

It's been a tough four months for them

 since the tsunami, earthquake, and nuclear emergency.

 "I'm still very scared, but I have to be strong,"

 says a Fukushima student named Tadano.

Tadano and about 30 other grade school and high school students are staying with host families on Maui - to rest, relax, and recuperate. 

  "100 percent of the students were affected in one way or the other, by the tsunami. Some of them have lost friends or family, also in the earthquake or the nuclear power accident." Said group leader Yumiko Nishimoto

Two weeks ago, the first wave of Japanese - mostly families – arrived through the Initiative and are staying with families on Oahu and Maui for up to three months. Only a very few of them had ever met their host families before arriving here in the islands.

That is the meaning of ALOHA!

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            Warmly, cloudia

Chinatown Lunch

A L O H A !

Let's wander through my beloved Honolulu Chinatown!

" We need to haunt

the house of history

and listen anew

to the ancestors' 

wisdom. "

Maya Angelou

"  On the roof it's peaceful as can be
And there the world below can't bother me. "

UP ON THE ROOF

                                  by Gerry Goffin &
                                                             Carole King

How about some Chinese / Malaysian /  Singaporean?

"One who waits

 for roast duck to fly into mouth

must wait a very long time."

Chinese Proverb

1. Shrimp Won Ton Char Siu Noodle $4 / All Noodle In Soup




"One cannot refuse to eat

just because
 there is a chance of choking."

Chinese Proverb

Looks Even Better in Person!

"Some prefer carrot
while others like cabbage."

Chinese Proverb

What a Good Girl Am I!

" A Smile will gain you
ten more years
of life. "

Chinese Proverb

Ah! The Day Looks Brighter Now :)




" The greatest wealth 
is to live content with little,
 for there is never want 
where the mind is satisfied. "


Lucretius








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Why Can't We Be Friends?

A L O H A !

" Each step we take 

creates a cool breeze,

 refreshing our body and mind. 

Every step 

makes a flower bloom

 under our feet. " 

- Thich Nhat Hahn

“ There are only two ways to live your life.

 One is as though nothing is a miracle.

 The other

 is as though everything

 is a miracle. ”

Albert Einstein

" To what shall I liken the world?
Moonlight, reflected in dewdrops.
Shaken from a crane's bill. "


Dogen

 

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  " A mountain is composed

 of tiny grains of earth.

 The ocean is made up

 of tiny drops of water. "

Sivananda 

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Have you seen

the dolphin and cat?

Doubt Unmasked

A   L   O   H   A !

" Life

is the art

of drawing without

an eraser. "

John W. Gardner

Even the crab likes some shade!

" I am learning all the time.

The tombstone

will be my diploma. "

Eartha Kitt

Beyond the Shadow of a Leaf...

" If a man speaks or acts

 with a pure thought,

 happiness follows him,

 like a shadow that never leaves ".

Buddha 

Oh to Be in a Green Place!

"We read the world wrong

and say that it deceives us. "

Rabindrath Tagore 

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If you are in doubt

Realize that it means

that you are under stress.

Stress is a bad way

to discover wisdom.

So breathe,

pause, de-stress.

Then you will be able

to proceed

All on a Summer's day.

     Warmly, cloudia

 A L O H A !

"Summer is the time

 when one sheds one's tensions

 with one's clothes,

 and the right kind of day

 is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.

 A few of those days

 and you can become drunk with the belief

 that all's right with the world."

Ada Louise Huxtable

" kisses are a better fate

than wisdom. "

e.e. cummings

" Oh!

 I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

And danced the skies

 on laughter-silvered wings "

John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

"In every outthrust headland, 
in every curving beach,
 in every grain of sand
 there is the story of the earth"

--Rachel Carson

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I can bless you

without a glance,

passing on the street

or the web

just like a curse

in reverse.

Energy is neither

created

nor destroyed;

We always pass it on

adding our own scent.

No intention

misses it's mark.

Bless YOU

&

Pass it on-

       warmly, cloudia

Fri- D A Y !

Aloha Friend!

" 'Alo' means the bosom,

the center of the universe.

'Ha' is the breath of GOD.

The word ALOHA

is imbued with a great deal of power.

I do not use the word casually.

Aloha is a feeling,

a recognition of the Divine.

It is no just a word

or greeting.

When you say 'Aloha' to someone

you are conveying or bestowing

this feeling.

In the Hawaii of my childhood,

this feeling bonded the entire community."

Nana Veary

Hawaiian Sky

A L O H A !

" The need to be right

 is the sign of a vulgar mind.  "

Albert Camus 

" The function of the imagination

 is not to make strange things settled

but to make settled things strange. "

G.K. Chesterton

When you are strong enough
 to love yourself 100%,

 good and bad - 

you will be amazed at the opportunities

 that life presents you.”

 Stacey Charter

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Jagged clouds

 fanciful paper lanterns

passing before a July full moon:

Moon Bows

gild mother of pearl.