Apec Coming!

A L O H A ?

  Revered Hawaiian scholar Paki 

explained the  spiritual meaning

represented by each letter of the word Aloha:

A 

stands for AKAHAI,

meaning kindness, expressed with tenderness


 

L

 is for LOKAHI,
 meaning unity,
expressed with harmony.

O

 is for OLU`OLU,
 meaning agreeable,
 expressed with pleasantness.

H

stands for HA`AHA`A,

 meaning humility,
 expressed with modesty.

A

 stands for AHONUI,
 meaning patient and persevering.

The key to life is to live ALOHA everyday!

" By learning to discover

and value our ordinariness,
 we nurture a friendliness

toward ourselves and the world
 that is the essence

of a healthy soul. "

Thomas Moore

Now THIS is gonna be a challenge!

" Let's just face it:

" Shooting here is far better than in Detroit,

The place is magnificent, 

the locals are great. "

George Clooney

on filming in Hawaii

(sorry Detroit poets/friends)

> < } } ( ° >

I live 

in the most densely populated neighborhood

in the Hawaiian Islands,

which means the largest collection

of humans

for thousands of miles 

of open Pacific.

We are ready to greet visitors

and we do it every day!

When the President holidays 

on Oahu,

in his place of birth

and growing up years,

we feel protective of him

and are mostly philosophical

about the motorcades

and street closings.

Plus, he stays on the 

other side, the Windward.

And his visits to town-side,

like taking the girls to

the zoo,

are not too disruptive.

We even welcome officials

from other nations

and afford them

the same courtesy and

protection.

But on November 7th

through the 13th,

21 heads of state

including our President

will be meeting

ALL around here!

The Hawaii Convention Center

is right across the Ala Wai Canal,

and just under my window.

NO paddling for one week!

Already restrictions are being explained

to us.

 click HERE

There will be closed streets,

closed near-shore waters,

and all boats in the Ala Wai Harbor

will be restricted to their berths.

Residents there

(as we were so recently)

will have security check-points

to enter and leave their neighborhood.

No parking for surfers.

The gasoline station

nearest to me

will be restricted to 

"law enforcement & military."

And there WILL be demonstrations.

Meanwhile, the tourist Mecca of

Waikiki 

with our dozens of hotels

and thousands of residents

will have 

NO deliveries by truck

(an every day thing)

for the duration!

Stock up now

(I will)

It feels a bit like a target

is painted on my

paradise.

On the other hand,

this will be the safest,

most secure island

in the world

for one week.

Perhaps I'll visit the demonstrators.

More later.

And thanks for visiting today!

How would YOU feel

about such a summit

in YOUR neighborhood?

Tell us in comments,

                                          Warmly, cloudia

Camera Eyed

A  L  O  H  A !

Shooting flowers, is like playing 'keep away' with the wind.

It's all about light,
and shadow;

Light reflected, 
direct,
diffused.

Photography is about texture

and choices. . .

If you see it, shoot it!

" There is no camera that can make a picture.

No lens, no lights can make a picture.

Forget about different cameras

and accessories,

just use what you've got.

Only your eyes can make a picture. "

Daryl Fashionista.

HERE

                                                                   
                                                                                  

" The artist's vocation

is to send light 

into the human heart. "

George Sand 

> < } } ( ° >

 
      To take good pictures,

carry your camera

everywhere.

Look at everything.

Really look around.

If something strikes your eye,

SHOOT it!

Crouch, climb on a low wall,

take a step off the path.

If you miss a shot,

don't feel bad.

Celebrate

that you saw it

in the first place!

And when you are ready

exhaling will steady your hand.

Shoot quick 

shoot again.

If captions pop into your head,

use them!

And most of all:

have fun.

Shoot

have fun

shoot some more.

Thanks for visiting!

Leave us your photo tip

in comments. 

                                                           Warmly, cloudia

Simply Allow

People to Speak Without Interruption

A L O H A !

click on the clouds for small revelations

" Shoulder the sky, my lad,
and drink your ale. "

 

A. E. Housman

" Nowadays most men lead lives
of noisy desperation. "

James Thurber

" Now all my teachers are dead
except silence. " 

W.S. Merwin

" Silence

is the true friend

that never betrays. "

Confucius

 " An inability to stay quiet

is one of the most conspicuous failings

of mankind. "

Walter Bagehot

" Silence is a source of great strength. "

Lao Tzu

" Listening is not 

waiting to talk. "

Scott Ginsberg

" Every person in this life

has something to teach me—

and as soon as I accept that,

I open myself to truly listening. "

 Catherine Doucette

" Deep listening, compassionate listening

is not listening with the purpose of analyzing

or even uncovering what has happened in the past.

You listen first of all

in order to give the other person relief,

a chance to speak out,
to feel that someone finally understands him or her.

Deep listening is the kind of listening

that helps us to keep
compassion alive

while the other speaks…

During this time you have in mind only one idea,

one desire: 

to listen

in order to give the other person

the chance to speak out

and suffer less. 

This is your only purpose.

Other things like analyzing,
understanding the past,

can be a by-produce of this work.

But first of all

listen with compassion. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

 

" The most basic of all human needs 

is the need to understand

and be understood.
 The best way to understand people 

is to listen to them. "

Ralph Nichols

" To truly listen

is to risk being changed

forever. "

Sakej Henderson

 

 

" An enemy is a person

whose story we have not heard. "

Gene Knudsen Hoffman

" Wisdom is the reward

you get

for a lifetime of listening

when you’d have preferred to talk. "

Doug Larson

> < } } ( ° >

 

 

 

Thank YOU for visiting today!

Give us the chance to listen

to YOU - leave a comment

                                       Warmly, cloudia

O Bird

A L O H A !

" Walk on a rainbow trail; 

walk on a trail of song, 

and all about you will be beauty.
 There is a way out of every dark mist, 

over a rainbow trail. "

Andra Davis

"I love you like the little bird

That picks up crumbs 

around the door."

Blake

" He who knows best

knows how little he knows. "

Thomas Jefferson 

 > < } } ( ° >

 

 

Thanks for your visit!

                             warmly, cloudia

How We Change the World System

A L O H A !

" We ourselves feel 

that what we are doing

is just a drop in the ocean.

 But the ocean would be less 

because of that missing drop. "

Mother Teresa.

" If I have ever made any valuable discoveries,

it has been owing more

to patient attention,

than to any other talent. "

Isaac Newton

“ A smile

is the light in your window

that tells others

that there is a caring,

sharing person

inside. ”

 Denis Waitley

 

 

 

> < } } ( ° >

We met at "Occupy Wall Street" HackStar, iClaudius92, Tr33ni and me.

The people down there were good people, some of them knew a LOT,

we had a lot of fun, and we did stay wired, but we started to miss our relationships

and projects, and work online.

  I wanted to sit in a chair with a screen in front of me.

But HackS, iC, Tr33 and me stayed hooked up.

We didn't know it then,

but we 4 were gonna do

what ALL the demonstrations

All Over the globe

and ALL the good,

cheated people

couldn't do.

We were gonna use our IT abilities

to change the fixed financial game.

First, we thought that we would just erase

all the world's digital money-

which is to say: ALL the money.

But rich jerks would still have lots of stuff

and average people would REALLY suffer

in that scenario.

I didn't want to stop Gran's Social Security check either.

How to mess with money, yet not hurt normal people?

We were stymied at that for a while.

  Targeted attacks would be

very difficult and ineffective.

What could we do to free people & countries

from debt

to the already super wealthy?

A biblical Jubilee was called for;

Righteous & satisfying.

Then one night at like 3 am, Tr33ni IM-ed me.

An hour later we were all together

in the same room,

face to face.

" It's SO simple," she said

Like Y2K, a blanket hack;

simple elegant effective.

We leave Governments OUT of this,

so food inspection, and flight safety,

and military paychecks,

all stay normal.

We did fight about this for a while.

iClaudius92 wanted the absolute purity of leveling 

EVERYTHING,

but I wanted to vote and have the constitution

so I argued to leave real world governments out

of our scheme. But we clipped the "conference class"

at the UN. We left UNICEF alone.

Finally we agreed

to proceed!

It was like pushing a button

to reset the whole world system

and it was ridiculously easy to do.

After Fire-Walling the Govs,

we simply made ALL digital accounts

"max out" at 10 Million Dollars.

Records of mortgages, the IMF, credit card debt-

ALL erased too.

Small bushiness, average people,

heck, even the rich with less that 10 Mil

in the bank:

NOTHING touched them.

A few hundred greedy entitled people

around the world stared reality in the face:

They Were POOR!

  " ONLY 10 million dollars 

between me and the STREET!!! "

We laughed about those people. 

Some of them killed themselves.

But most people just went to work. 

The supplier sent the supplies- and got paid.

People worked and got paid.  

There was a definite

good mood 

everywhere

as no one was "underwater"

in a mortgage.

Small banks that had been prudent flourished.

  

So that's how we changed the whole game

without hurting average people.

Just a few commands.

And no longer would human kind be crucified

on a cross of corporatism-

for now. . . 

I'm glad we could help!

Thanks to Cloudia for the venue.

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so please leave us one! signed, smackHack