Expert Predictions!

A   L   O   H   A  !

That's ME!

“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”

Lord Kelvin, 

British physicist 1899

“Printed books 

will never be the equivalent 

of handwritten codices,

 especially since printed books

 are often deficient in spelling

 and appearance.”

Johannes Trithemius,

 German abbot and scholar

 “In Praise of Scribes”

 1492

" ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes

 and weighs 30 tons,

computers in the future

may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes

and weigh only 1.5 tons.”

Popular Mechanics

 1949

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What do the experts know?

My laptop

weighs in at only

One Ton

and uses only 

Three Vacuum Tubes!

These days,

I seem to be learning

all the things

that I have been

wrong

about.

Once past the 

embarrassment

it's actually been

liberating.

What have 

Y O U

been wrong about?

Thanks for visiting today

                         Warmly, cloudia

  

To Tell the Truth

A   L   O   H   A  !

"It does not take many words

 to tell the truth"

 Chief Joseph

 of the Nez Pierce Tribe

Thank YOU for looking in!

                       Warmly, cloudia

Cycles of Forgetting

A   L   O   H   A  !

"Click and Prosper"

 “ He judged the instant

 and let go; 

he flung himself loose 

into the stars. ”

  Annie Dillard

"The release date is just one day, 

but the record is forever.  "

Bruce Springsteen

"Flowers help us release,

 renew and rejoice.
They remind us

 of who we really are

 and let us
return

 to our state of beauty

 and freedom. "

 Darina Stoyanova

 

" It is not fitting,

 when one is in God's service, 

to have a gloomy face 

or a chilling look. "

                                                                 Francis of Assisi

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Knowing

is not

'doing it.'

Understanding

is not something

to be filed

away,

or displayed,

yellowing,

on a trophy wall.

Use it-

-or lose it. 

We all circle

through forgetting

and remembering

the things

that life has

taught us.

Cycles of Renewal

Seasons among which

we dance.

Take a moment.

What deep truth

of Your Own

have You filed away?

"Yeah, I know that."

Re-remember

now

your original insight.


Use the good silverware!

Another swirl

around the ballroom.

I love it when

You come here

and dance

with me.

                               Warmly, cloudia

A Woman's Voice

Recent Events 

Here in the US

have reminded us all

 of the importance of:

Bloggers Dream

A L O H A !

aw go ahead! Click on the Cloud

" Our doubts are traitors

and make us lose the good

we often might win,

by fearing to attempt. "

Jane Addams

"You are made

in the image

of what you

desire. "

Thomas Merton

" A great Truth

is a truth

whose opposite

is also

a Truth. "

Thomas Mann

" You will not become a saint

through other people's sins. "

Anton Chekhov

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She dreamed her whole life

but it was not to be.

From girlhood

she had longed for recognition

as a Serious Writer.

At 14 years old

she began a diary;

Four line entries

-five years of them-

without a day

missed.

"That's nice, Dear.

Run along now."

She edited the literary magazine

at Hunter College,

got her Masters in English Literature

at Columbia in 1936.

 Eventually she wrote articles

for ladies magazines,

 inviting friends

for conversation at

 her Salon

(her parents' living room)

attracting a couple

of literary lights,

Poet John Berryman

among them.

But she never broke out of

the Ladies Pages herself.

In 2003

a steamer trunk

was placed in a dumpster

on a New York City street.

The red leather diary

caught the eye of a worker

who passed it on

to Lilly Koppel.

Mz Koppel

wrote an article about the diarist

in the New York Times,

2008 saw the publication of her book

" The Red Leather Diary:

Reclaiming a Life

Through the Pages

of a Lost Journal. "

The two women became friends.

Profiles of the diarist

ran in publications

around the circuit.

Tuesday before last,

Florence Wolfson Howitt

the diarist

died at age 96

at her Florida home.

So keep blogging.

One day

there may be an email

in YOUR in-box

from Ariana Huffington,

or the Pulitzer people.

Just keep blogging.

Chronicle your Times,

your Places,

Your Unique Life.

Lives?

I firmly believe

that decades from now

Sociologists

will devote themselves

to studying these unique documents

that You & I

create.

Perhaps someone will write an article

in the Times

about You too!

And You still around

to be feted.

THAT

would be SWEET!

Sweet like your dear visit,

that touches me

with human warmth

& connection.

Thank YOU

Thanks for looking in today !

Warmly, cloudia 

Why We Have Elections

A  L  O  H  A !

" An election is coming. 

 Universal peace is declared,

 and the foxes have a sincere interest

 in prolonging the lives

 of the poultry.  "

George Eliot

" Democracy is the only system

 that persists in asking 

the powers that be 

whether they are the powers

 that ought to be.  "

Sydney J. Harris

" Hell, I never vote for anybody,

 I always vote

 against. "

W.C. Fields

"The (State)Capitol's

 video surveillance system

 to detect mischief in public areas

is dysfunctional only six years 

after it was installed

 and must be replaced.

  Why bother? 

 Most mischief in the square building

 occurs behind

 closed doors."

David   Shapiro

Columnist & Hawaii Public Treasure,

quoted here by permission

 of the

Honolulu Star Advertiser 

Mahalo!

" [Linda] Lingle practices the rhythm method

 of political safe sex.

  she rocks with conservatives

 when she's in Washington

and rolls with moderates 

at home. "

David Shapiro,

( of  the former Hawaii Gov

 now running for Senate )

" I want to be Senate majority leader

 in order to make

 Obama a one-term President."

Mitch McConnell

 Republican  US Senator

" We are in an election season,

and the test for any CANDIDATE 

 (emphasis mine)

is whether they can produce

 results. "

Republican Eric Cantor (VA) 

US House Majority Leader

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So the avowed work

 of a sitting US Senator

in a leadership position

at a time of crisis,

is to obstruct the President

of the Other Party;

BUT

The work of a Candidate

is to get things

DONE

(While the voters are looking

 and deciding their votes.)

And THAT is why

we need

elections !

Thank you for visiting Friends!

May Providence protect YOU

from your 'leaders"

                               Warmly, cloudia

Face

 A  L  O  H  A !

" To see a world 

in a grain of sand 

and heaven in a wild flower 

Hold infinity

 in the palms of your hand
and eternity

 in an hour. "

 
William Blake

"  It is always our own self 

that we find

 at the end of the journey.

 The sooner we face that self,

 the better.  "

Ella Maillart

" He had a face like a blessing.  "

 

Miguel de Cervantes

“You are my Companion; 

You are my Best Friend. 

You are my Beloved;

 I am in love with You. 

 

 

You are my honor; 

 You are my decoration.

 

 Without You, I cannot survive,

 even for an instant.”

 

 Sri Guru Granth Sahib 

Thank YOU

for showing

 YOUr face

here !

Warmly, cloudia 

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