Love's Green Lanterns

A  L  O  H  A !

" Changing the world 

begins
with the very personal process 

of changing yourself,

the only place you can begin 

is where you are, 

and the only time you can begin

 is always now. "
 

Gary Zukav

" Great deeds

 are usually wrought

 at great risks. "

Herodotus

" A power struggle 

collapses
when you withdraw 

your energy

 from it.

Power struggles

 become uninteresting to you

 when you change your intention

 from winning 

to learning 

about yourself. "
 

 Gary Zukav & Linda Francis 

 "from"The Heart of the Soul"

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Each one has

a Soul

Even when

they themselves

do not know it,

believe it,

act like it.

Focusing

on the symptoms

of that disconnect

doesn't help

in ANY way-

Energy Flows

Where Attention

Goes.

Invest

your attention

in the 

Pleasing,

water that 

 growth.

Thank you

 for airing YOUr Soul

 here a while

                     Warmly, cloudia

Forth Going

A  L  O  H  A !

Moving Day

“We must be willing 

to let go

 of the life we have planned,

 so as to accept

 the life

 that is waiting for us.” 

 Joseph Campbell

" We cannot change anything

until we accept it.

Condemnation

does not liberate,

it oppresses. "

C. G. Jung

" A man travels the world over

 in search of what he needs 

and returns home 

to find it. "

 George Moore

Red-crested Cardinal 

(Paroaria coronata)

“How do geese 

know when to fly to the sun?

Who tells them the seasons?

How do we, humans 

know when it is time to move on?

As with the migrant birds,

 so surely with us,
there is a voice within

if only we would listen to it,
that tells us certainly

 when to go forth 

into the unknown.”  

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Thank YOU

for landing here a while.

Your visit

is appreciated.

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Last Dance

ALOHA, Donna Summer

 It was a time,

what a time it was;

New Liberation

and no AIDS yet,

or even GRID.

Dancing was freedom

Dancing was who we were,

what we were about.

Night after night,

every night

of the week.

The "General Public"

knew nothing of it!

 It was a secret,

on the back streets.

There was

NO RAINBOW FLAG

as yet.

But there was 

DANCING.

Hip people

can roll their eyes,

but back then,

before John Travolta

or the BEE GEES

heard the beat,

it was

ours.

The "Club Kids"

and the "Rave Kids"

didn't

invent

ecstatic dancing.


We didn't invent it either,
but we 
re-discovered
and lived it!

It goes back

to the beginning.

Every Gay Bar

in the world

wrapped up the night

with Donna Summer's

"Last Dance."

I'm sure many still do.

They will tonight
for sure.

Tonight

in Heaven

a LOT of people

dear to me

who died TOO young

are dancing their

 ASSES OFF!

Get me a drink friends,

cause I'm gonna rip it up

when I get there!

Thanks for stopping by 

the wake

YOU are my friend

and YOU

are 

APPRECIATED! 

Fondly, cloudia

And So Do I

A L O H A !

There are no perfect people 

to our way of seeing - 

But each of us 

is well pleasing, 

priceless, 

and perfecting 

to the eyes of

LOVE.

" You can't depend on your eyes

 when your imagination

 is out of focus.  "

Mark Twain

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R E D

A  L  O  H  A !

“Out of the ash

 I rise 

with my red hair ”

  

 Sylvia Plath

" It was a town of red brick, 

or of brick that would have been red 

if the smoke and ashes had allowed it;

 but, as matters stood

 it was a town of unnatural red 

 and black 

as the painted face of a savage. "

 CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens

" In the house of words 

was a table of colors. 

They offered themselves

 in great fountains 

and each poet

 took the color he needed: 

lemon yellow or sun yellow,

 ocean blue or smoke blue, 

crimson red, blood red, 

wine red. "

Eduardo Galeano



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Andersendak

A  L  O  H  A !

  "You can't get rid of evil. 

We can't,

 and I feel that so intensely.

 All the idiots

 that keep coming into the world

 and wrecking people's lives. 

And it is such an abundance

 of idiocy

 that you lose courage,

 okay?
That you lose hope — 

I don't want to lose hope." 

 Maurice Sendak, 

 with Bill Moyers, 2004

“ There must be more

 to life 

than having 

everything ”

 

 Maurice Sendak
  

“`But the Emperor

 has nothing on

 at all!' 

said a little child.” 

 Hans Christian Andersen

" Children are tough,

 though we tend to think of them

 as fragile.

 They have to be tough.
 Childhood is not easy.

 We sentimentalize children,

 but they know
 what's real and what's not.

 They understand metaphor

 and symbol.
 If children are different from us, 

they are more spontaneous.

 Grown-up lives have become 

overlaid with dross. "

 Maurice Sendak, 

The New York Times, 1987

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    "And it is through fantasy 

that children achieve catharsis. 

It is the best means they have

 for taming wild things." 

Sendak

Upon receiving the Caldecott Medal 

1964

" Where words fail, 

music speaks.  "

Hans Christian Andersen

" Life itself

 is the most wonderful 

fairy tale. "

Hans Christian Andersen




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is full of happy
music & magic!






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very special Person

A  L  O  H  A !

“ Perhaps

 the most "spiritual" thing 

any of us can do

 is simply to look 

 through our own eyes,

 see with eyes of wholeness, 

and act 

with integrity 

and kindness. ”

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

" Until you have formed the habit

 of looking for the good 

instead of the bad 

there is in others, 

you will be neither successful 

nor happy.  "

Napolean Hill

 “ Looking back
 you realize
 that a very special person
 passed briefly
 through your life-

 - and it was you.
It is not too late
 to find that person
 again. ”

 Robert Brault

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What do

Y O U

elicit from

OTHERS

?

At the end

of your 

day

Have you

added

to the World's

Peace

or discord

? 

Is the sum

total

of YOUr

interactions

with OTHERs

on the 

Positive

or Negative

side?

Smiles shared,

eye contact,

patience,

small kindnesses

maintain

the 

Balance of the world.

" Better do a good deed near at home

 than go far away to burn incense. "

Amelia Earhart

Thank YOU

for 

YOURS!

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