Can't Pay

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    You cannot pay
a flower
to smile

 The clouds 

cannot be bribed

to part.

 Sunlight is freely

healing all hearts

 

 Golden moments

 cannot be saved

in a bank

 Final moment of

 glory?

No charge.

 “As the valley 
gives height to
 the mountain,
so can sorrow
 give meaning to 
pleasure;
as the well 
is the source 
of the fountain,
deep adversity 
can be a 
treasure.”

 William Arthur Ward

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Autumnus Autompne

Archaic words for a season young each year-

A   L   O   H   A  !

 

" Nature gives to every

 time and season 

some beauties

 of its own. . . 

 it is but a succession of

 changes 

so gentle and easy

 that we can scarcely

 mark their progress.  "

Charles Dickens

“A kind heart
 is a fountain of gladness,
making everything
in its vicinity
 freshen into
smiles.”

 Washington Irving

" Live

 in rooms

 full of

 light. "

Cornelius Celsus

" To be interested

 in the changing seasons

 is a happier state 

of mind

 than to be

 hopelessly

 in love with

 spring.  "

George Santayana

 Spring = Youth?

 Yes, I feel Autumn;

Smell it too.

Here on Oahu

it is

Bright,

with some 

wind & rain

that cleanses,

passes.

Seasons of the year,

seasons of life

always sing

of seasons passed-

- Of other streets

we have walked

in other seasons,

other climes,

other times. . .

" It is always in season

 for old ones

to learn.  "

Aeschylus 


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Enemies are People

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“ Enemies are

 people
 who's story
 you haven't heard,
or who's face
you haven't
 seen. ”

Irene Butter

I like the discreet little grey cloud just above the yellow triangle

“ Age should not
 have its face
 lifted,
 but it should
 rather teach
 the world to
 admire wrinkles
as the etchings of
experience
and the firm line
of character. ”

 Clarence Day

“ If wishes come true...

Grant me a cloud ”

Unknown

" Democracy

 is the art and science 

of running the 

circus

 from the 

monkey cage.  "

H. L. Mencken

Tiny cloud,

tiny plane,

tiny mountains

tiny rain-

" Damn everything

 but the circus.  "

Corita Kent

“ The child-soul 

is an

 ever-bubbling

 fountain

 in the world 

of humanity ”

 Friedrich Froebel

“ Some people

 drink from the

 fountain of knowledge, 

others just 

gargle. ” 

 Dr. Robert Anthony

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Hawaii Trees

ALOHA!

"There are two types of people:
 Those who come into a room

 and say,
 'Well, here I am!',
and those who say,
'Ah, there you are.'"

Frederick L. Collins

 

" I try to be like the latter.
 I do everything in my power
 to avoid the former. "
 

Carmi Levy

“ Knowing is not enough;

 we must apply. 

Willing is not enough; 

we must do.”

 Goethe

" When there is no enemy

 within,

 the enemies

 outside cannot

 hurt you. "

 African Proverb

" The foolish man

 lies awake all night

 thinking of his many

 problems; 

 when the morning comes

 he is worn out 

and his trouble is 

just as it was. "

 Norse Proverb

" I never feel age..

.If you have 

creative work,

 you don't have

 age or time. "

 Louise Nevelson

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The Difference YOU Make

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" Barack and I 

see a future where

 no one—no one—

is forced to live

 in the shadows

 of intolerance."

US Vice President Biden

" For Barack,

 success is not measured

 by how much

 money you earn,

 but the

 difference 

you make

 in people's lives.  "

 Michelle Obama

" Romney calls

 young people like Benita

 'illegal aliens.' 

President Obama calls them

 'dreamers.' 

That's the 

difference

 in this election."  

Cristina Saralegui

" Under Obama,

 renewable energy production

 has doubled." 

"Here's another jobs score.

 Obama: 250,000.

 Romney: Zero." 

"Here's another jobs score.

 President Obama: + 4.5 million.

 Congressional Republicans: Zero."

"President Obama started

 with a much weaker economy

 then I did

 ... no one could have

 fully repaired

 all the damage

 that he found 

in just four years."

Bill Clinton

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Memory, Movies

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 " There's no fence 

nor hedge

 around time that is

 gone.  

You can go back 

and have 

what you like

 of it,

 if you can 

remember. "

How Green Was My Valley (1941)

 “ I find

 that the further I go

 back,
the better

 things were,
 whether they

 happened
 or not.”

 Mark Twain

 “Strangely enough,
 this is the past
 that somebody

 in the future
 is longing
 to go back to”

 Ashleigh Brilliant 

 
   “ I can't go back

 to yesterday -
 because I was

 a different person

 then ”

 Lewis Carroll

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Just as music does,

or a book we once loved,

movies take us

back in time

to the person we were

when we met them.

I just watched

'The Bird Man Of Alcatraz'

with Burt Lancaster.

Saw it in the theater.

Back then, when choosing,

a film, one might ask:

"Is it color, or black & white?"

This film is black and white.

The film is also 50 years old!

[ Cue up the 

'flashback memory music' ]

We went to the movies

all the time when I was young.

Dad had been a projectionist

in WWII.

Other dads flew bombers,

mine showed movies.

Seeing a scene

that I saw,

when younger than 10,

the 'Me' of today

watched the 'Me'

I was back then.

What would I tell

that child,

now that I am

both at once, 

all through the

 magic of film?

I remember the car

we had then,

the smell of the rain

riding home in the dark.

Dad was young & strong,

loved & feared,

but riding with him

felt safe

from the mysterious

big wild world

out there.

Watching movies

with dead people:

Dad and child-me.

How can 50 years

 take so long,

yet pass so fast?

Back then I yearned,

and wondered; 

Today I have memories

and know.

Yearning is turning

seasons change,

as I look back

 with tears

that are sweeter

than laughter.

Know what I mean?

 

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