Finch Bath

A  L  O  H  A !

 " If you truly love Nature, 

you will find beauty 

everywhere. "

Vincent Van Gogh

" Talent

does you no good

unless it is

recognized

by someone

else. "

Robert Half

That's why YOUr visit,

YOUr comment,

means quite a lot

to me

<(-'.'-)>

Now, I don't have the 

cameras,

lenses,

the talent

of some of YOU

(Bob, Wong, Hilary,

to name a FEW!)

but let's watch

a sweet little

Java Finch
[ Link ]
having his 
morning bath: 

All Pictures Quite Click-Able

We bloggers

get to make

dozens of creative choices

every single day.

We develop

aesthetic vocabulary

even

as we educate

our artistic

"Eye."

The day I took 

these shots

I realized:

Now 

that I can spot

a good photograph

in daily life,

even without

"Taking the Shot"

I still See

and Enjoy

things that I would

have never even 

noticed

in days past. 

"Tweet!"

Thanks for visiting

my garden,

Leave YOUR Comment

and a wish

                Warmly, cloudia

Others Can NOT

A  L  O  H  A !

" Happy is the one

 who has broken the chains
 which hurt the mind,
and has given up worrying
once and for all. "

 Ovid 

 " Chance is always powerful.
 Let your hook
 always be cast;
in the pool
 where you least expect it,
there will be
fish. "

 
Ovid

" I am climbing 

a difficult road; 

but the glory 

gives me 

strength. "

Sextus Propertius 

  >  <  }  }  ( ° >

Remember, friend:

no one

can do it for you;

no one

can do it TO you.

Others can not

diminish you

in any really 

important way-

THAT is a job

you must do

yourself.

Which reminds me 

of an old joke:

Patient: "Doc, it hurts when I do this."

Doctor: "Well don't do that!"

Your visit

is good medicine

for me.

Hope YOU

Take away Something-

and leave YOUR

Comment

here.

                      Warmly, cloudia

Future Past

A  L  O  H  A !

Click Photos to SEE  

  " It is great wealth 

to a soul

 to live frugally 

with a contented mind. "

Lucretius 

" Gentleness

 is the antidote

 for cruelty. "

Phaedrus

The thing about the

future,

is that

when you get

there,

it is peopled

by strangers,

you anachronism!

 >  <  }  }  ( ° >

Thank You for Visiting-

Take away Peace - Leave Your Comment

                              Warmly, cloudia

Over Da Rainbow

A  L  O  H  A !

 

 Click It - Don't Miss It! Pictures too. . .

" Photograph: 

a picture painted 

by the sun 

without instruction

 in art. "

Ambrose Bierce

" A picture

 is a poem 

without words. "

Horace

" Those things

 that nature denied

 to human sight,
she revealed 

to the eyes 

of the soul. "

Ovid

  >  <  }  }  ( ° >

We live

 in these touchable bodies,

in this touchable world,

learning many lessons.

Why is the universe

 infinite,  yet   

E X P A N D I N G  ?

 Perhaps to show

 us

that potential is

L I M I T L E S S !

Celebrate 

the Abundance,

right where

Y O U

are.

Thanks for bringing

the magic that is

YOU,

here-

 

                           Warmly, cloudia

Joycean

A  L  O  H  A !

" The heaventree of stars

hung with humid

nightblue fruit. "

James Joyce

" The writer begins

with the arbitrary,

the accidental,

the insignificant,

and transmits them

into an object

that has intention,

design,

and significance. "

James Joyce

" I'm like a man

who stumbles;

my foot strikes

something,

I look down,

and there is 

E X A C T L Y

what I'm in

need of. "

James Joyce

via Louis Manand

in the New Yorker

22 publishers 

rejected Joyce's 

 The Dubliners.

 >  <  }  }  ( ° >

We construct our art,

our home,

our life,

from stuff we find

day to day.

That thing you notice

becomes a diadem;

Memory the jeweler

fastens diamonds 

on your hem.

Thank YOU

for voyaging here,

Ulysses

                          says cloudia

"COMMENT!"

Demands the Cyclops

Slightly Better Feeling

A L O H A !

" An animal's eyes

 have the power 

to speak

 a great language. "

 Martin Buber

When we are unhappy

we start to analyze-

We wonder where we went wrong,

How we can make it all

Better -

And yet

All we really

need to do

- Is to look for

a SLIGHTLY better

feeling.

Maybe it's NOT

as bad as it looks,

Tomorrow will be

better.

The Magic of the 

Slightly Better Feeling

can really help you out.

When I'm  musing

on something unpleasant,

I simply stop,

take a breath,

and think of 

YOU Friends

who visit here.

- ALWAYS

makes it all seem

WORTHWHILE!

Thanks for That-

Thank You!

Take away Peace - Leave a comment 


                           Warmly, cloudia

A  L  O  H  A !

 

" I try to raise

 my soul so high

 that the offense

 cannot reach it. "

Rene Descartes

" The conscious mind 

may be compared

 to a fountain

 playing in the sun - "

Sigmund Freud

" Rest and you rust. "

 Helen Hayes, 

American actress

" Well we all shine on
Like the moon 

and the stars 

and the sun
Well we all shine on
Every one, come on "

John Lennon

 " Light gives of itself freely,

 filling all available space.
 It does not seek anything

 in return;
 it asks not whether 

you are friend or foe.
 It gives of itself
and is not thereby 

diminished.  "

Michael Strassfeld

    >  <  }  }  ( ° >

Autobiography

by  Cloudia W. Charters

Bulldog to butterfly, Raised by rage

found my refuge on the page

H.G. Wells, Kipling and Poe

Sandburg showed me where to go.

Cultural deluge spins all boats

upsets familiar landscape, but I kept afloat

true believer to the dregs

everyone else somehow got rich

but I was just stretching my legs.

Start over?  Why not!

a rolling stone will not rot

Rooted to locale?  

well me, I’m not.

But torrents taunt boulders

we’re all growing older

Tis been a thrilling ride

if much of it pure slide

to rest on a shore

never seen before

rooted at last

have twenty years 

really passed!?

Half submerged sentinel by the shore

rocked but by tides, who could want more?

YOUR Visit

is appreciated!

                              Warmly, cloudia