Grateful Hand

A  L  O  H  A    from  

Honolulu!

 " Whatever hour 

God has blessed 

you with, 

take it with 

grateful hand. " 

                          Horace

 Pink Angel Party

" Morning 

without you 

is a dwindled 

dawn. " 

                  Emily Dickinson

Foreground, Background, Diagonal

" There is deep wisdom 

within our very flesh, 

if we can only 

come to our senses 

and feel it. "

                   Elizabeth A. Behnke

Fearsome Centipede

" Fear is the

 bane of all creatures, 

it is our black hole 

we cannot live without.” 

                    Isabella Irini Poretsis

Linking to

 Saturday Critters

Self Portrait of Sort-rait

Linking to 

Weekend Reflections

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Thank YOU

for visiting!

                Warmly, cloudia

Live Long and Prosper

“I’m touched by the idea 

that when we do things 

that are useful and helpful - 

collecting these shards 

of spirituality -

 that we may be 

helping to bring about 

a healing.” 

                 Leonard Nimoy

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Thank YOU,

"Mr. Spock"

YOUR Default Settings

A  L  O  H  A    from   Honolulu!

" Nothing is 

ever the same

 as they

 said it was. "

                     Diane Arbus

Cunard's Queen Elizabeth visiting Hawaii

" There are people 

who live their whole lives 

on the default settings, 

never realizing 

you can customize. "

                       Robert Brault

" To be ignorant 

of what occurred

before you were born

 is to remain 

always a child.” 

             Marcus Tullius Cicero

 Amphibious Assault Ship 

USS Makin Island (LHD 8)

Visited Hawaii recently. 

I thought it was

a historic vessel. 

But she's just well used

Link

 Delivered to the U.S. Navy  

16 April 2009  

Commissioned at Pascagoula, Mississippi  

26 June 2009 

U.S. Coast Guard

The sea is 

a singular neighbor

bringing good, bad,

all things - anything.

Beautiful, ugly,

roaring, whispering.

The sea, 

our neighbor

barely notices us;

Yet never fails

to charm.

                                                 cloudia

" I could never stay 

long enough on the shore;

 the tang of the untainted, 

fresh, and free sea air 

was like a cool, 

quieting thought. "

                 Helen Keller

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Thank You, Captain

for sheltering here

a while!

                                    cloudia

SkyWatch Honolulu

A  L  O   H  A !

"  To attract good fortune,

 spend a new coin 

on an old friend, 

share an old pleasure

 with a new friend,

 and lift up the heart 

of a true friend -

by writing his name

 on the wings 

of a dragon. "

                   Chinese Proverb

Linking to 

SkyWatch

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Thank You!

                              cloudia

Right Ways to Do

A  L  O  H  A   from  Honolulu!

 Pretend these are Your Feet

" It is part of the cure 

to wish to be cured. "

                        Seneca

 " If you make friends

 with yourself 

you will never 

be alone." 

                 Maxwell Maltz

Mo`ili`ili  Baseball field

" Those who cannot 

change their minds 

cannot change 

anything. "

George Bernard Shaw

Linking to Tex's

Good Fences

[>^<]

Remember when

there was one way

to do something:

The Right Way?

Enforcers of 

The Right Way

can be pretty Serious

about Right & Wrong!

Scientists have found

we can ward off

Mental Decline

by sometimes doing

accustomed things

in unaccustomed ways;

Brush your teeth

with your non-dominant hand.

Take a new way home.

I get bored

with dental floss

and switch to those

disposable plastic

flossers.

(Extravagant I know)

Then I get bored

and switch back.

[This could be an 

argument for Polyandry]

After a while,

the Right Way

becomes stale.

Don't become stale.

I post every day,

but I shake it up too:

Sometimes it's Good,

other times a 

Goof.

Thank You

for goofing around

here with us!

                         Fondly, cloudia

All Gone But the Sign

A  L  O  H  A   from  Honolulu!

Waikiki Movie Theater

opened August 20, 1936 

closed November, 2002. 

Demolished April, 2005

Architect Charles William Dickey

You can view Signs from around the world

Here

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Thank You

for Dreaming!

              Fondly, cloudia

Her Day

A  L  O  H  A  from  Honolulu!

 Her Day

" People are 

like stained-glass windows. 

They sparkle and shine 

when the sun is out, 

 Their Day

- but when the darkness sets in 

their true beauty is

 revealed only if -

- there is light 

from within."

                Elisabeth Kübler-Ross