The Spot

“I must learn to be content

 with being happier

 than I deserve.” 

 Jane Austen

“life is short

 but it is wide.

 this too shall pass.” 

 Rebecca Wells

“Happiness is 

the settling of the soul 

into its most appropriate spot.” 

Aristotle

Thanks for looking in!

                                               cloudia

Don't Maintain - Flourish

A  L  O  H  A !

 Those whose day

 is passing

always feel

that society is crumbling.

 But it's just changing

“Our youth now love luxury. 

They have bad manners, 

contempt for authority; 

they show disrespect for their elders 

and love chatter in place of exercise;

 they no longer rise when elders enter the room; 

they contradict their parents, 

chatter before company;

 gobble up their food 

and tyrannize their teachers.”

 Socrates

 469 BCE – 399 BCE

"The person 

who has lived the most

 is not the one 

with the most years

 but the one with 

the richest experiences. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" That's the way things 

come clear.  

All of a sudden.  

And then you realize 

how obvious they've been 

all along.  "

Madeleine L'Engle

<(-'.'-)

Thanks, Friend!

                   fondly, cloudia

Summer Sloth

A  L  O  H  A !

" For every minute you are angry

 you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

" “Life 

is no brief candle 

to me. 

It is a sort of splendid torch 

which I have got a hold of 

for the moment, 

and I want to make it burn 

as brightly as possible 

before handing it 

onto future generations.”

 George Bernard Shaw

" Living is being born slowly. 

 It would be a little too easy

 if we could borrow 

ready-made souls. " 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

 Flight to Arras, 1942

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Aloha, Friends!

My brain

seems to have

gone fishing,

or on vacation.

Right now,

I'm enjoying a 

Summer Stupor

with a side of

Polynesian  Paralysis.

Sure hope You

are goofing off,

eating ice cream,

not going to school.

Isn't this just the most

healing time of the year?

 (Not valid in Southern Hemisphere;

Sorry Perth!)

Leave your complacent yawn in comments!

                              Fondly, cloudia

Higher View

A L O H A !
 

" The one who views the world at fifty

 the same as he did at twenty 

has wasted thirty years 

of his life.  "

Muhammad Ali

"Creativity comes from trust. 

Trust your instincts."

 Rita Mae Brown

" One may understand the cosmos,

 but never the ego;

 the self is more distant 

than any star. "

G.K. Chesterton, 

"The Logic of Elfland,"

 Orthodoxy, 1908

" If you resist reading 

what you disagree with,

 how will you ever acquire 

deeper insights into 

what you believe? 

 The things most worth reading 

are precisely those 

that challenge our convictions.  "

Author Unknown

" It is only when we silent

 the blaring sounds of our daily existence

 that we can finally hear

 the whispers of truth

 that life reveals to us, 

as it stands knocking 

on the doorsteps of our hearts.  "

K.T. Jong

Thanks for stopping by, Friend!

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Rainbows Clouds and Carp

A  L  O  H  A !

Grandma Rocks

Willow's Fantasy Life

A  L  O  H  A !

 To Willow,

nothing is boring.

She notices

what most

overlook.

 Noticing

" I still get wildly enthusiastic 

about little things...

 I play with leaves. 

I skip down the street 

and run 

against the wind."

Leo Buscaglia 

 Willow 

goes on 

heroic journeys 

in her mind.

 She is ever Young

Ever fresh

Ever Beautiful

 Her Allies Emerge

from the Primal Ground

 Becoming Manifest

Every moment 

yields her treasures

to Willow.

  -W -

What is the first Thing

that popped into Your Mind?

Leave it as a comment!

(if it's not too embarrassing;

the more nonsensical,

the better though :)

Each of You

Brings Inspiration.

                          THANKS!  cloudia