LIN - Sanity

A    L    O    H    A   !

“I'm youth,  I'm joy,
I'm a little bird
that has broken out
 of the egg.”


 James Matthew Barrie

" Life is one big road
 with lots of signs. 

So when you riding through the ruts, 

don't complicate your mind. 

Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

 Don't bury your thoughts,

 put your vision to reality. 

Wake Up and Live! "


Bob Marley

Kiss the Shadow




" Poetry is an echo,
 asking a shadow
 to dance. "

Carl Sandburg

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(=';'=)

(")_(")

Sounds like the plot

of a bad movie:

In an arena

of pampered millionaires,

spoiled "student athletes"

who never earn a degree,

 of

"Kings" "Legends" and

"Franchise Players"

consider THIS fellow:

An Asian,
the child of immigrants

in a sport with 

BUT ONE

(retired) Asian hero,

He played his college ball

at Harvard

(NOT a recruiting ground

for professional athletes).

Jeremy recently slept 

on his graduate-student
brother's 

sofa.

He was cut

from two NBA teams.

Then the New York Knicks

came calling.

Result:

L I N S A N I T Y !

Jeremy Lin is the first American-born player

 of Taiwanese or Chinese descent

 to play in the NBA.

He has the 

MOST POINTS

in his first five games

of ANY PLAYER

in NBA

HISTORY!

 136 points

 in his first five

career starts.

The ancient Greeks,

when the weren't busy

inventing democracy &

Philosophy,

appreciated sport.

Excellence of the Mind,

of the Spirit,

of the Body

was their paramount value.

They had a word for it:

Arete`excellence.

Perhaps you are not

"into" sport.

But magic like this

transcends category.

It is uplifting to see.

(You may see Lin perform below)

Thank YOU for visiting,

                        Fondly, cloudia

Daily Computer Repair

A  L  O  H  A !

 " Not everything that is more difficult

 is more meritorious. "

Saint Thomas Aquinas

" It isn't that they can't see

 the solution.  

It is that they can't see

 the problem. "

G.K. Chesterton

" Each moment

 is a place

 you've never been. "

Mark Strand

  

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When you make a meal

you use tools

and ingredients

in your kitchen.

Then

you wipe the table,

and put stuff away.

When you work on your 

computer,

perhaps baking a

blog post,

 visiting bloggy friends,

checking your email,

and finding a recipe for dinner,

there is disorder afterwards

on your hard drive-

things that need to be put away,

and "crumbs"

to wipe up.

Inevitably, registry errors,

file fragments,

cookies,

and other debris 

collect on your hard drive.

and they DO

 slow you down!

 I download updates

to my anti-virus / malware,

programs, and run scans 

daily.

But I do something else

to clean up all those 'crumbs'

and do preventive maintenance

every day.

Meet my friend

 GLARY.

"One Click Maintenance"

This is a free utility for personal use.

If you purchase the "Pro" version

(as I eventually did)

there are even more tools

to optimize, and safeguard

your computer.

But the is NO pressure to buy-

And this was an unsolicited

and unpaid recommendation.

I happily 

used GLARY Free for YEARS

and just wanted my friends

to know about it.

You can download it

via the link below.

Install Glary

Free & Virus Tested

HERE

Think you'll try it?

THANK YOU for visiting!

                      WARMLY, cloudia

Adelle's Resonance

 A  L  O  H  A !

Whither  the voyage?

 “What the caterpillar calls 

the end of the world, 

the master calls

a butterfly.”

 Richard Bach

 needs a 'click' to bloom

" A kind soul knows:

impoliteness

is just preoccupied

with distraction. "

Mike Dolan,

 Oh Click on THIS one!

Over the Moon

" Be still

and cool

in thine own mind 

and spirit. "

George Fox 

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My thoughts 

on what is SO great

about Adele's  

Rolling in the Deep

It's powerful, controlled and has a rhythm

that matches the inexorable acceleration

many of us feel in these precarious times.

Is that unique to our time?

Or has every generation 

felt the miles roll by like this?

Stop the world!

I Want to get off!

Yet, 

this triumph of art, 

of voice, of identity

and control

heartens us, strengthens us,

reconnecting us to our own

power. 

In Rolling, 

we seem to ride the whirlwind

in a way that does our generation proud.

We've been knocked about,

but we are still singing, 

still STRONG!

No one knows

where the maelstrom will ultimately take us,

but we go in style! 

Throw in the human drama 

of Adelle losing, then regaining

her voice,

and you have a complete emblem

of regeneration,

of hope itself.

Brava!

(see the video below :-)

Thank YOU for visiting.

Your comments are a treasure house

where I go to know 

what matters!

Please drop in and say "Hi"

                                    Warmly, cloudia

My Honolulu Airspace

A   L   O   H   A  !

After living below decks

on our boat for 20 years,

I now have intimate communion

with cloudy friends & relatives

from my high parapet.

Planes arriving and leaving

via Honolulu International Airport

fly offshore, along the coast of Waikiki.

I have a nice view of landings 

and takeoffs

under my oversight

Joint Base Hickam-Pearl Harbor

is in the same vicinity.

Here an F-22 Raptor 

sports like a

spirited pony.

Boeing C-17 Heavy Airlift ships 

globe-hop from here:

Humanitarian missions

throughout the Pacific

in times of disaster:

Samoan tsunami-

Japanese earthquake/tsunami.

And, yes,

they carry people & arms

to war.

( Returning warriors

are usually aboard chartered

commercial craft. )

Here Airforce One

says goodbye to Oahu

after a visit 

by the First Family.

 

See the plane to the right?

High Flight

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .

Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

— John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Where are they all going?

Aloha-

Of course, there are those of us

who have found our home,

our Shangri  La,

here in Honolulu Town.

Happily

visitors like to come

and visit us-

JOLLY!

Thank You  

SO

for being among them-

                           

                     Warmly, cloudia

A  L  O  H  A !

" We shall find peace-

We shall hear angels,

we shall see the sky

sparkling with diamonds. "

Chekov

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(=';'=)
(")_(")

Thank You

for visiting!

                         Warmly, cloudia

Prefere Des Chats

A   L   O   H   A  !

click on pictures !

"There is nothing

in a caterpillar

that tells you

that it is going to be a

butterfly. "

Buckminster Fuller

" Happiness

is not something ready-made.

It comes from your own

actions. " 

Dalai Lama

Did you hear about the snail

who was robbed

by a turtle?

When asked for details

she said:

"Oh it all happened 

SO fast! "

" The tree which moves some to tears of joy

is in the eyes of others 

only a green thing
 that stands in the way. 

Some see nature all ridicule and deformity...
 and some scarce see nature at all.

But to the eyes of imagination,
nature is

imagination itself. "

William Blake 

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Thanks very much

for ambling by today.

May all your roads

be joy

and consolation

this weekend.

                          Warmly, cloudia