LifeStyle Shock

A L O H A !

Our New View

" Home is a name,

a word,

it is a strong one; 

stronger than magician ever spoke,

or spirit ever answered to,

in the strongest conjuration.  "

Charles Dickens

Ala Moana Beach Park

" The light is what guides you home,

the warmth is what keeps you there.  "

Ellie Rodriguez

The Ala Wai Canal

" We shape our buildings;

thereafter they shape us.  "

Winston Churchill

S P A C E !

" Peace - 

that was the other name for home. "

Kathleen Norris

" There is nothing like staying at home

for real comfort. "

Jane Austen

This will take some getting used to.

" Where thou art - that - is Home.  "

Emily Dickinson

 

View from my bed

" Tis distance lends enchantment

to the view, 

and robes the mountain 

in its azure hue.  "

Thomas Campbell  

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We are in lifestyle shock.

WE have spent 2 nights in the new apt.

It is like waking

from the 20 year dream

of the boat.

That cramped hot place

 was an adventure

for quite a while.

I am remembering

what conveniences

are.

Miss Kitty

is adjusting better

than anyone has the right

to expect from a cat:

"Boat? What boat?"

First she seemed suspicious,

then appraising,

now appreciating;

This is where the love,

and food (!)

are.

I can lie in my bed

watch the sky,

the mountains,

the habitations of people:

my beloved

Island of Oahu.

Dear Honolulu.

I watch evening come to the land,

and remember

like a previous life

what it was like

to live upon those

mountains.

Then I look to the sea,

the sunset,

and thank my lucky stars

as they arise!

Thanks for stopping by.

Your encouragement

and kitty advice

is much appreciated.

         Warmly, cloudia

I am remembering who I was

before we went to sea.

 

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.  ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Saturday Song

A L O H A !

" Be careful of reading health books.

You might die of a misprint. "

Mark Twain 

" Always remember

that you are absolutely unique.

Just like everyone else. "

Margaret Mead

" Even after all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,'You owe me.'
Look what happens with
A love like that.
It lights the whole sky. "
 

Hafiz of Persia

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Happiness Recipe

   A L O H A !

" I feel like we're being watched. "

" Yeah, I hope that's Bat Man. "

Kitty says 'goodbye/aloha' to harbor friends

" People always think that happiness is a faraway thing . . .
something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up;

" a place of shelter when it rains - a cup of strong hot coffee when you're blue;
  a cigarette for contentment; a book to read when you're alone - 

just to be with someone you love.
 Those things make happiness."


Betty Smith 

(A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

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Am I coming-

or going?

We are only moving 2 blocks

but it is a huge change

in lifestyle.

How do people move

across country,

or continents?!

So please excuse me

for NOT visiting

as often as I like to.

But I hope to post,

so I'll see you

soon.

 Thanks for your kind comments-

       Warmly, cloudia

 

How To Blog

A L O H A !

" How one walks through the world,
the endless small adjustments of balance,
is affected by the shifting weights
of beautiful things. "
 

Elaine Scarry

 

" Always live life

with your head in the clouds. "

  Gavin Pretor-Pinney

" You will always

be your child's favorite toy. "

Vicki Lansky

" What a child doesn't receive

he can seldom later give.  "

P.D. James,  

Time to Be in Earnest

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When young,

more often than

not,

all of my sentences began with

"I"

 

 

There was much to express

and all about

"Me."

 

 

I dreamed that someday

many would be interested

in that "I."

 

 

 

The many 

would appreciate

"Me."

 

 

Then I'd be

the special

one!

 

But I have learned

to be more interested

in

 

"You." 

 

 

 

 

Now often I begin 

with that word,

"You"

 

 

 

 

or a question 

to welcome

"You" in.

 

 

 

 

 

As  Ruskin said:

  " When a man is wrapped up in himself,

he makes a pretty small package. "

So-

If you wish to blog,

to write,

I'd say:

 

' Be who you are,

but it's not about

yourself. '

 

 

It's all about

the one who comes

( like a miracle )

the one who reads.

 

 

Care about 

that reader,

 

 

 

and what you write

may be worthy

of their time

and attention.

 

 

My life is the topic

of this blog,

but it's purpose is

 

Y O U

 

and the connection

that we make.

Each time you visit,

you truly make my

spirit shine.

It's all about

Us!

So HAPPY

that it is.

 

                                    Thank YOU, cloudia

 

     

Huge NEWS

ALOHA    FRIENDS !

When you live on a boat, as we do, 

THIS is your view!

There is little to see out your porthole,

 maybe one palm tree

 that moves out of sight

with the movements of the boat

at the end of it's ropes.

Yes, this has been home for 20 years,

as I posted about recently

Here.

We don't HAVE a view,

we ARE the view!

But all that is about to change

BIG TIME

Below
you can see
my 
N E W
V I E W!

I'm beside myself.
Bathroom, Kitchen,
S P A C E. . . 


Housing is expensive on islands,
and we looked at many
depressing places-

But finally found a situation
a couple of blocks from
the harbor.
My days can still begin
with a walk on Waikiki Beach.

“ I have heard the mermaids singing, 

each to each. ”
 

 T. S. Eliot
 







So I'll still see the familiar neighbors:

“ Why do we love the sea?

It is because it has some potent power

to make us think things we like to think. ”
 

Robert Henri

Just not LIVE with them.

I just hope this sailor can adjust.
But I KNOW
that I
WILL!




So please excuse my absence
if I'm not around your blogs
as much as I'd like.


Now you know.
But please don't tell Kitty yet.


I'm gonna lay down now.


My sea legs are confused,
and my head
is SPINNING!


But no more emergencies in the night
like THIS one,
that caused my husband 
to miss my nieces wedding.


Or THIS one
that almost sank us!


THIS scary one,


or the TWO Tsunami alerts
HERE & HERE.


Guess I'm just getting soft.


Hooray!


            What do you think? warmly cloudia

Golden

A L O H A !

"A box without hinges, key, or lid,

yet golden treasure inside is hid.  "

J. R. R. Tolkien

" All theory, dear friend, is gray, 

but the golden tree of life

springs ever green.  "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Friendship is the golden thread 

that ties the heart 

of all the world.  "

John Evelyn

Golden

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Fish

" The golden age is before us, not behind us. "

William Shakespeare 

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                             with us in Comments. Warmly, cloudia