Hope Hop Hover

A  L  O  H  A !

 " If people did not 

sometimes do silly things,
nothing intelligent
would ever get done. "

Wittgenstein

" 'Tis my faith
that every flower
enjoys
the air it breathes! "
 
Wordsworth

" Cynicism 

is the intellectual cripple's 

substitute for 

intelligence. "

Russell Lynes

" I had to create 

an equivalent

 for what I felt 

about 

what I was looking at - 

not copy it. "

Georgia O'Keeffe

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The ground was hard.

But I learned to hop

to hope

and with great effort

to hover,

briefly.

Glaze-wonders dazzled.

Generous breezes

hinted,

then moved me;

I could

glide!

But lift equaled

effort-

until it didn't.

Thy sky

thy clouds

they comfort me!

And touching the 

ground,

the Earth,

is no longer

a 'come-down'

but

 benediction

till at last

one day

I float away

beyond the final 

effort.

YOUr Visit

makes my day!

Thanks so much

                           Warmly, cloudia

Wake Up

A  L  O  H  A !

 

 Morning Light

 is going

 OFF!

The sky shows off

sorts itself out

Fields Find their Finery

Oh see what has 

Bloomed

over-night!

New Debuts!

Oh DO get up!

No telling

what WONDERS

await us!

Perhaps
it will be
Hot Enough

to

Fry an Egg

or Three!

(Careful Spider Man)

 What will I find
at YOUR 
blog?


Can't Wait
to see!




                             Warmly, cloudia

Visit to a Hawaiian Temple

A L O H A !

Click on the pictures

 " Texture,

not volume,

is the key

to the

wondrous. "

Anthony Lane

 

" Not what we have

 but what we enjoy, 

constitutes our 

abundance. "

Epicurus

 Look Who's Back!

" You are not a beggar

 at the table of life. 

You are the

honored guest."

Emanuel 

  "Life

 is a succession of

 moments. 

To live each one

 is to succeed." 

Corita Kent

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This time of year

is made for 

wandering-

To simply

live each moment

seems sufficient.

just ask my

brain!

I have no patience

for politics

or planning-

purely

for 

playing!

You too

perchance?

Well let's 

go somewhere

we've never

seen before:

 

Thanks for playing with us today!

                                        Warmly, cloudia

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trees

       

           A  L  O  H  A !

 The flute of the infinite
 is played without ceasing
 and its sound is love. 

Kabir

" More grows in the garden

 than the gardener knows 

he has sown. "

Spanish Proverb

" Everyone 

is kneaded out of the same dough 

but not 

in the same oven. "

Yiddish Proverb

" When we discover

 that the truth is already in us, 

we are all at once 

our original selves. "

Dogen

 > < } } (°>

Thank YOU

Take away Peace - Leave a Comment

Warmly,

                         Your friend cloudia

WON in Viet Nam

A  L  O  H  A !

"Day is done,
gone the sun,
from the lakes
from the hills
from the sky,
all is well,
safely, rest,
God is near.

 Fading light,
Dims the sight,
 And a star gems the sky
 Gleaming bright,
 From afar,
Drawing, near,
Falls the night.

Thanks and praise,
For our days,
Neath the sun
 Neath the stars
 Neath the sky,
As we go,
This, we, know,
God is near."

According to Wikipedia, 

"The term ['TAPS'] originates from the Dutch term taptoe, meaning "close the (beer) taps (and send the troops back to camp)". "Military tattoo" comes from the same origin. "

What did the US win

in Viet Nam?

We  allowed the confusion 

and dissension of that war 

to color

the way we treated

the veterans.

Viet Nam vets

paid the price of war,

then paid again

here at home.

One thing we 

as a nation

took from that

generation

is this lesson:

" Appreciate the Warriors

and their Families."

They do not start wars,

they do not make the policies.

They do what is asked of them

unto death.

For this

we say

"Thank You."

This day-

Every Day.

We honor all those

who put a higher purpose

above their own

life.

         Sincerely, cloudia

Regional Greetings

A  L  O  H   A ! 

Ahalan , Nei Ho Dobrý den / Ahoj,  Goddag, oede dag, Hallo, Saluton, Hei, Bonjour Guten Tag, Gia'sou, Shalom, Namaste, Jó napot, Góðan daginn, Aksunai / Qanuipit? Dia dhuit, Salve / Ciao, Kon-nichiwa,  An-nyong Ha-se-yo, Salve / Salvëte, Ni hao, Dzien' dobry, Olá ! Bunã ziua,
Zdravstvuyte, Jambo / Hujambo, Hej, Sa-wat-dee
Merhaba / Selam, Vitayu, Xin chào Hylo; 
Sut Mae? Sholem Aleychem

" How glorious a greeting

 the sun gives the mountains!  "

John Muir

 “Care more for the individual patient

 than for the special features of the disease. . . . 

Put yourself in his place . . . 

The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, 

the sympathetic look -- 

these the patient understands.”

 William Osler

" Don't

 tell your friends

 about your indigestion. 

' How are you '

is a greeting, 

not a question.  "

Arthur Guiterman

 oooo! Click on This One!

" Parting

 is such a sweet sorrow 

that I shall say

 goodnight 

till it be morrow. "
    Shakespeare

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Nobody says "Hello."

Back in New York,

it was "How ya doin`?"

Which is nice for me

because in Hawaii

it is informally common to say:

"Howzit?"

(How is it?)

or "Howzit, Brah?"

(Brother, Sistah, Auntie, Uncle)

Easy to guess my vintage

(I'm done fooling myself,

about that at least)

because I call everyone

"Man"

like a beatnik from the 

early Sixties.

"Dude" seems too much

like "trying."

"Aloha" is always nice,

and always acceptable

anywhere in Hawaii,

but one seems to hear it

less and less.

Like it's mostly for the visitors

to feel like they

someplace different.

Native Hawaiians 
do
say Aloha to
one another.

"Hey"

or the nod,

or especially

the eye-contact

smile;

All popular

with me.

Aloha kakahiaka     Good morning
Aloha awakea     Good mid-day (10 am - 2 pm)
Aloha `auinala     Good late afternoon (after mid-day)
Aloha ahiahi     Good evening (around sunset)
Aloha auinapo     Good late night (after midnight)
Aloha po     Good night
Aloha ahiahi ia oukou     Good evening to all of you (plural)

                          mahalo, Mauimapp.com

So what is the greeting

where YOU

live?

Tell us in 'comments'

                      Warmly, cloudia

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

Thank YOU!

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Warmly, cloudia