Clear Gifts

A  L  O  H  A !

Enjoy the peaceful place 

you are growing to know. 

   Let the parade pass by

 without joining it.

 Today is full of gifts

  if we stop all the self-talk 

and notice them. 

 

 Clear the space.  Clear your mind. 

 It will come back

 fresher and better 

 when needed.

 Right now

 your critical faculties

 are off-line for maintenance,

 and that's a

Good Thing .

 You are safe.  

You are happy 

with developments and 

new joys in your life.  

 Tomorrow suddenly has

 as many happy anticipations, 

as it used to have

 chore-lists and worries.  

You accomplish all that is needed 

and MORE.  

 Appreciate the pleasure 

and power 

and freedom

 of being YOU.  

It's been too easy to focus 

on boundaries and limitations. 

But the scope of your happiness

 is well within 

the golden bounds 

of possibility.

What you want most

is at hand.

Reach For It!

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I so enjoy celebrating with YOU.  

Thanks!

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Animal Ounces

A  L  O  H  A  !

Golden Plover - Kolea in Hawaiian

You can have

 a Spirit Companion Animal

to teach you

life lessons,

 to be with you

guiding & protecting.

Indian  Myna

  Dream of your animal, 

see your companion

 out of the corner of your eye 

 as you fall asleep. . . . .

Red-crested Cardinal, Paroaria coronata,

synchronous appearances 

of an animal, 

their image, stories, words,

  will reveal your friend. 

Give it a name.

Speak to your

Spirit Animal.

 

 Appreciate your 

Animal Friend 

until it is most real to you.

 Even when you are at work, 

and your pet

at home,

under the couch, 

your pet is real,

alive, and

loving you. 

Spirit Animals 

are like that too. . . .

" Sometimes 

the heart sees 

what is invisible

 to the eye. "

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Your animal companion

is a representative

of an ancient companionable

wisdom.

 " An ounce of loyalty 

is worth

 a pound of 

cleverness. "

Elbert Green Hubbard

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for visiting!

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Plenty to See

A  L  O  H  A !

1 - 2 - 3

Plenty to See

Plenty to Be

You  &  Me

Light & Shadow:

 Splendor in the Grass

And so another day doth pass-

Hawaii Style.


" There is a fountain of youth:
 it is your mind, 
your talents,
 the creativity you bring
 to your life 
and the lives of people
 you love. 
When you learn 
to tap this source, 
you will truly have 
defeated age. "

Sophia Loren





Seeing YOU here
is one of the 
GOOD THINGS!



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Do Leave Your Comment

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Obama in Israel

President Barack Obama’s speech to

 Israeli students

 in Jerusalem on March 21, 2013.

“So long as there is a United States of America,

 ah-tem lo lah-vahd” (you are not alone). “

When I think about Israel’s security,

 I think about five Israelis who boarded a bus in Bulgaria, who were blown up because of where they came from; robbed of the ability to live, and love, and raise families. That’s why every country that values justice should call Hezbollah what it truly is — a terrorist organization. Because the world cannot tolerate an organization that murders innocent civilians, stockpiles rockets to shoot at cities, and supports the massacre of men and women and children in Syria right now. . .

 . . .For young Israelis, I know that these issues of security are rooted in an experience that is even more fundamental than the pressing threat of the day. You live in a neighborhood where many of your neighbors have rejected the right of your nation to exist. Your grandparents had to risk their lives and all that they had to make a place for themselves in this world. Your parents lived through war after war to ensure the survival of the Jewish state. Your children grow up knowing that people they’ve never met may hate them because of who they are, in a region that is full of turmoil and changing underneath your feet. . .

But the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, their right to justice, must also be recognized. . .

Put yourself in their shoes. Look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own. Living their entire lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements not just of those young people but their parents, their grandparents, every single day. It’s not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished. It’s not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands; or restricting a student’s ability to move around the West Bank; or displace Palestinian families from their homes Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer. Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land.

I’m going off script here for a second, but before I came here, I met with a group of young Palestinians from the age of 15 to 22. And talking to them, they weren’t that different from my daughters. They weren’t that different from your daughters or sons. I honestly believe that if any Israeli parent sat down with those kids, they’d say,

I want these kids to succeed; I want them to prosper. I want them to have opportunities just like my kids do. I believe that’s what Israeli parents would want for these kids if they had a chance to listen to them and talk to them. I believe that. . . .

The President's words

touched me deeply.

All I can say:

AMEN

Imagine Yourself

A L O H A !

" Smooth seas 

do not make for a 

skillful sailor. "

African Proverb

" Cease trying

 to work everything out

 with your minds. 

It will get you nowhere. 

Live by intuition 

and inspiration

 and let your whole life 

be Revelation. "

Eileen Caddy 

" Life is only a dream 

and we are 

the imagination

 of ourselves. "

Bill Hicks 

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Feminine Skies

A L O H A !

Tiny Birds at Left, Sun-Egg in Nest

 

" Mysteries 

are feminine;

 they like to veil themselves

but still want to be seen and

divined. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Is this_

why I have been_

such a mystery_

to myself?_

"

" Debate is masculine,

 conversation

 is feminine."

Amos Bronson Alcott 

Masculine-ism

'debated' my femininity

away from the controls

of me 

for a long time.

Femininity is frivolous.

I want to be taken seriously.

Yes, they like to look,

and to touch,

BUT I am

MORE!   

" You throw like a girl! "

School Yard Taunt;
worst thing peers
can say to a boy.

" The ideal man 

bears the accidents of life

 with dignity and grace, 

making the best 

of circumstances. "

Aristotle

“ The hardest part 

has been learning how 

to take myself seriously

 when the entire world

 is constantly telling me

 that femininity is always 

inferior to masculinity. ” 

 Julia Serano

But Feminism Valued 

the Feminine, right?

" As a result

 of the feminist revolution,

 'feminine' 

becomes an abusive 

epithet. "

Wyndham Lewis

Oh

" There is nothing more rare, 
nor more beautiful,
 than a woman being
 unapologetically herself; 
comfortable in her perfect
 imperfection. 
To me, that is the true 
essence of beauty. "

 Hussein Nishah 

" I am rediscovering

 the whole sexual dimension 
of life at the age of 86, really.
And that also means discovering 
the feminine. 
So the whole of this dimension,
which I had been seeking
 for a very long time,
 is now sort of 
opening itself up to
me. "

Bede Griffiths

" Feminine passion

 is to masculine

 as an epic

 is to an

 epigram." 

Karl Kraus _ 

Being a Girl,

Being a Boy


Source of life's
mystery,
sorrows,
and Joy.

A feminine sky?

I suppose it is one

in which

a Cloudia Voyages.

Gentlemen,

 are you thunder

 & lightning?

Ladies,

Ah Ladies. . . . .

So Chore - y

yet touched with

Glory

are we!

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How to Meet Unique People

A  L  O  H  A !

" The goal of life 

is to make your heartbeat

 match the beat 

of the universe, 

to match your nature 

with Nature. "

Joseph Campbell

" All things

 share the same breath

 - the beast, the tree,

 the man... 

the air shares its spirit 

with all the life it supports. "

Chief Seattle

"  Looking back, 

my life seems like

 one long obstacle race,

 with me 

as the chief 

obstacle. "

Jack Paar

" If you spend your whole life

 

 waiting for the storm,

 

 you'll never enjoy

 

 the sunshine."

 

 

Morris West

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So HOW can you meet

unique people?

UNIQUE up on them!  

Enjoy the storm

& the sunshine.

Today 

is unique

and will never

repeat.

 

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