One Year Ashore

ALOHA    FRIENDS !

This is an updated post from last September

When you live on a boat, as we do, 

THIS is your view!

There is little to see out your porthole,

 maybe one palm tree

 that moves out of sight

with the movements of the boat

at the end of it's ropes.

Yes, this has been home for 20 years,

as I posted about recently

Here.

We don't HAVE a view,

we ARE the view!

But all that is about to change

BIG TIME

Below
you can see
my 
N E W
V I E W!

I'm beside myself.
Bathroom, Kitchen,
S P A C E. . . 


Housing is expensive on islands,
and we looked at many
depressing places-

But finally found a situation
a couple of blocks from
the harbor.
My days can still begin
with a walk on Waikiki Beach.

“ I have heard the mermaids singing, 

each to each. ”
 

 T. S. Eliot
 







So I'll still see the familiar neighbors:

“ Why do we love the sea?

It is because it has some potent power

to make us think things we like to think. ”
 

Robert Henri

Just not LIVE with them.

I just hope this sailor can adjust.
But I KNOW
that I
WILL!




I'm gonna lay down now.


My sea legs are confused,
and my head
is SPINNING!


But no more emergencies in the night
like THIS one,
that caused my husband 
to miss my nieces wedding.


Or THIS one
that almost sank us!


THIS scary one,


or the TWO Tsunami alerts
HERE & HERE.


Guess I'm just getting soft.


Hooray!

 I never about knew any of this!
So that was the cat before me, eh?



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More posts about boat life:
What is it like to live on a boat? 
Start HERE

Pirates !   Here

Moving Ashore   Here & Here

Kitty moves ashore  Here

Wave Your Flag

ALOHA!

" Many a man

 would rather you heard

 his story

 than grant 

his request. "

Earl of Chesterfield

Wave your Humanity

like a happy puppy tail.

Let the world know

your Aloha.

Don't jump up

on everyone begging

for a pat on the head

Just trot through life

wagging your Humanity.

The whole world

will get the message.

Bonus: Everyone

loves a puppy.

^..^

v

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New Moon

ALOHA!

“ When it was dark, 

you always carried 

the sun

 in your hand

 for me.”

Sean O'Casey

" A weak mind 

is like a microscope, 

which magnifies trifling things,
 but cannot receive

 great ones ."

Earl of Chesterfield

" The personal life

 deeply lived

 always expands into 

truths beyond itself." 

Anais Nin

=^..^= 

The new moon

was wide enough 

to cast it's light

across the ocean waves

this morning;

A great thing to see

so I wrote this poem:

Ocean moonglade

serene sickle slice

share your gravity

with my scattered

 rainbow

You won't have to ask me

twice.

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PausE

A   L   O   H   A  ! 

Pause

 for a few seconds.

Stop and be

right here, right now.

 Allow an angel to pass.

Comfort Spiral

is a valuable space

because YOU visit.

Here I come

to share 

what interests me.

But what makes the

music play
for me

is your response -

what YOU have to 

say.

Or else I'm just

talking to myself.

Mahalo Nui Loa means

'Thank YOU Big & Long'

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Past Lives - Past Life

ALOHA ! 

“ Don’t grieve. 

Anything you lose 

comes round

 in another form. ”

  Rumi

“ If you're really 

a mean person 

you're going to

 come back as

 a fly

 and eat poop. ”
  

Kurt Cobain

“ For the first forty days

 a child
is given dreams

 of previous lives.

 Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred

 small lessons
and then the past

 is erased. ”

Michael Ondaatje

“ This life

 is but a brief

 tenure,

 one of many

 perspectives

 a spirit must 

experience

 in the quest for 

eternity. ”

Brian Rathbone

“ As a man, casting off 

worn out garments

 taketh new ones, 

so the dweller

 in the body,

 entereth into

 ones that are

 new. ”

  Epictetus

" You, I,

 we reincarnate over 

and over. 

We live many lives,

 and store up much

 experience. 

Some are

 older souls

 than others 

and so they 

know more.

 It seems to be

 an intuitive "gift."

 It is really

 hard-won experience."

 

HENRY FORD, 

Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930

 >  <  }  }  ( ° >

Do you believe

that we live

 more than once? 

Christian mystic

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said

" We are not human beings

 having a spiritual experience. 

We are spiritual beings

 having a

 human experience.  "

One night in Kona

on Hawaii's Big Island

over 20 years ago

I had a spontaneous experience

of a past life.

Suddenly,

 I was an old woman

a long time ago.

For her too, it was night;

but she / I

was on a voyaging canoe

such as the Hawaiians of old

used in their oceanic

journeys and migrations.

Forgotten for centuries,

resumed only in recent years,

voyaging and way-finding

are the very heart

of the Hawaiian Soul.

Rhythms of wave,

wind,

and the 

starry night sky

live on in the Koko,

the blood,

and in Hula.

What I remember

is confidence.

And belonging.

Confidence

in the voyaging kahunas

those young men

with the knowledge

who guided the canoe

nearby to me
and the others

across the churning

deck.

I felt a great

belonging,

so deep 

we moderns have

forgotten it.

I was part of the others,

the island we left

and the one 

we voyaged towards

together.

More a

"We"

than an

"I"

But I was there,

for that few moments:

a feeling,

a knowing,

a memory,

a truth.

No wonder then
that I look on

Hawaii
and her children

with the love of

a mother.

< ° ) } } > <   

Another time,

hospitalized in 1997,

with very serious

pneumonia,

I learned

how precious

and indispensible

Each Breath is.

The whole experience

was a learning one,

I saw many things,

kept company with

Others.

One night

I knew I was

leaving;

Just the second before

I began to rise.

I understood

that I was accompanied

and would momentarily see

(just before I did)

myself,

the room, 
hospital floor,

the night hillside,

Honolulu town,

our beloved island. . . 
It all poured out
below me;
and I loved it all
very much.

Then
it was the whole
Earth I knew:

I knew all those

dying,

laughing,

being born,

crying

- Right Then -
 

all the struggle

and triumph

tiny and big

all the tumult of

LIFE-

I tasted it all

kissing it goodbye

because suddenly

I knew:

"Not your job anymore."

And oh the freedom!

Earth and her fate

meant nothing to me.

I was Myself again!

I  felt and knew
and understood

that restriction was 
over.

I knew absoulute joy

and confidence,
a ruler returning
to a world of my peers.

All we chase here:

 sex and friendship,

confidence, possessions

security and wealth,
all we could lack
is SURPASSED
home at the Source!
Don;t need those
substitutes
anymore.
Our friends
and loved ones,
our fellow players,
THEY are there
more truly themselves
as we laughing
share
our earned rewards.

I knew my work

was not done.

So I came back.
Was gently SENT
back.
 

But how, I wondered

 could I ever play Earth game,
resuming my position
on the field
among the other
players?
 

now that I know

how it all ends.

But fortunately,
my knowing grew dimmer,
becoming memory.

Again it is simple
to believe in
"what if" at 3 a.m. 

So I remain eligible
to learn,
and to earn
more
 Spirit Virtue Points.

My life DID change;

I know that:
Love,

and Sharing love,

are the entire

POINT of the game.
(I'm cheating :-)

Everything else:

stage dressing.

So do Y O U
 think

that YOU have lived
 before?

Do you think

we will be

with our ancestors

again?

Glad you took the time
to stop by here first!


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Waikiki Ramble

A   L   O   H   A   !

" Praise

 is like sunlight

 to the human spirit:
 we cannot 

flower and grow

 without it. "

 Jess Lair

Never

put off till

tomorrow

what you can

enjoy today!

with apologies to the

Earl of Chesterfield

 

" The Sun is satisfied with days. "

Robert Frost