Magic Bird

A  L  O  H  A !

 The camera-

like our eye

and our memory-

does not strictly

record,

it interprets.

The Sun

may not be looked upon.

Here

the camera shows us

white.

 Zooming in,

and pushing the 

contrast.

Something emerges

from the 

white

that represents

the Sun.

Let us look closer:

A magic,

unplanned

image

appears

like an

oracle!

A Dove

the emblem of 

Peace

answers

our

longing.

I think it looks

like Honolulu's official bird

the Manu O Ku

 

Courtesy: Monte Costa,  HERE

“ Don't believe 

what your eyes are telling you.
All they show

 is limitation.
Look with your 

understanding,
find out
what you already 

 know,
and you'll see

 the way
to fly. ”

 Richard Bach

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How We Get Over

A  L  O  H  A !

 Your personal challenges

have taught you

much-

 - but they

are NOT

your identity-

Challenges,

mistakes,

& shortcomings

say nothing

about

YOU-

It is what

YOU

do next

that really

tells the tale;

 All about 

who you

really are.

 " Finish each day and be done with it.

 You have done what you could; 

some blunders and absurdities have crept in; 

forget them as soon as you can. 

Tomorrow is a new day; 

you shall begin it serenely 

and with too high a spirit 

to be encumbered 

with your old

 nonsense. "

Emerson



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for swimming along
with us
a while.

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Blog Cafe

                  A  L  O  H  A !

 

" People trample over flowers,

yet only to embrace

a cactus. "

James Joyce

“ Trout, incidentally,

 had written a book

 about a money tree. 

It had

 twenty-dollar bills 

for leaves.”

  Kurt Vonnegut

  ''What is your fortune,

 my pretty maid?'' 

 ''My face 

is my fortune, Sir,'' 

she said."

Nursery Rhyme

" Joy

is the simplest

 form of 

gratitude. "

Karl Barth

" Life

 is 10 percent

 what you make it, 

- and 90 percent

how you

take it. "

Irving Berlin

" I have always loved

 to sit in ferry and railroad stations

 and watch the people,

 to walk on crowded streets,

 just walk along among the people,

 and see their faces, 

to be among people - "

Ella R. Bloor

" Let everyone sweep

before their own door,

and the whole world

will be clean. "

Goethe

" The winds of grace 

are always blowing, 

but it is you 

that must

 raise your sails. "

Rabindranath Tagore

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 You and I,

we know our blogs

are rather small fish

on the

 InterWebNet.

But think of this:

a restaurant

that served

100 meals

a day

would be a

raging success!

Thanks 

for having

a cup

of words

and pictures here.

Don't forget

to 'tip'

your server

with a 

comment.

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All Heart

A  L  O  H  A !

 'Self Portrait'

 " You can't wait for inspiration.

 You have to go after it 

with a club. "

Jack London

 'Burning Bush'

“ And we are put on this earth

 a little space

 that we might learn

 to bear the beams 

of love ”

William Blake
 

 " There's no place like home.

 My hearts desire 

is in my own back yard. " 

 Dorothy

“The heart 

is the only broken instrument

 that works.”

 T. E. Kalem

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for visiting!

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Clearer

A  L  O  H  A !

   " You can fly away,

 In the sky away  


  You more lucky  

 than me." 

 Yellow Bird, 

Jamaican Tradtional

[ I believe this is a

Citril Finch 

also called a 

Corsican Finch

 (Serinus citrinella) ]

HERE

" The moment a little boy

 is concerned with which is a jay 

and which is a sparrow, 

he can no longer see the birds

 or hear them sing. "

Eric Berne

" The sparrow that is twittering

 on the edge of my balcony

 is calling up to me this moment

 a world of memories 

that reach over half my lifetime, 

and a world of hope

 that stretches farther

 than any flight 

of sparrows. "

Donald G. Mitchell

    " Did your lady friend   

 leave the nest again?   


   That is very bad,   

   Makes me feel so sad. "

" Nothing

 can bring you peace 

but yourself. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Wish that I was a yellow bird,
I fly away with you.
But I am not a yellow bird
So I sit, nothing else to do. "

Jamaican Folk Tune

" But time growing old

teaches all things. "


Aeschylus

@_@

Since Dad passed

a lot about my life

about me

has become

clearer

to me.

The Story of Me

comes into focus

an insight at a

time.

Comedy & tragedy

obstacles surmounted,

years spent

(wasted?)

opportunities unnoticed

(lost!).

But I'm not sad

about all that.

It is

what 

It Is.

And that,

the IS-

not the 

was, or should have been,

or wasn't-

The IS

just is,

and it's alright

with me.

Some war is over.

Most humans

throughout our history

have felt the ancestors

to be important 

in daily life

and destiny.

Care is given

to remember

and honor them.

I feel my Dad

moving Heaven

and Earth

for me.

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for  visiting!


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A Jar of Delight

A  L  O  H  A !

 " To be afraid

is to behave

as if the Truth

were not

true. "

Bayard Rustin

 " Never think

you've seen the last

of anything. "

Eudora Welty 

" From Persia to the Chinese sea
   from the icy regions of Siberia
 to Islands of Java and Borneo,
India has propagated her beliefs,
 her tales,
 and her civilization."

Sylvia Levi

" Every object, 

every being,
is a jar

 full of delight. "

RUMI

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for visiting,

Friend!

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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

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