Monday, March 2, 2020

Chocolate-Covered Shaman

A    L    O    H    A  !
Flying Pig
In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, 
an ass and a nightingale. 
Diversity of character is due to 
their unequal activity.
        Ambrose Bierce










As I have practiced it, photography produces 
pleasure by simplicity. I see something special 
and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. 
The moment is held until someone sees it. 
Then it is theirs. 
               Sam Abell













Lions don't have to roar. 
There is power in silence, 
confidence, and persistence. 
Those who work don't talk, and 
those who talk don't work. 
Handle your business.    
            Les Brown













Being Wise Is Not Believing 
Everything You Think
           Donna A. Favors 







I'm a lion too!
You are a chocolate shaman, Pixie!
I love cats because I enjoy my home; 
and little by little, they become its visible soul.
 Jean Cocteau


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                                   cloudia

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Become People

A    L    O    H    A  !
Presiding Angel
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake 
of dreaming that I am persecuted 
whenever I am contradicted.
                  Emerson












When you start 
treating people like people, 
they become people.
             Paul Vitale












Where Have I Seen This Before?

“Mingle often with good people to 
keep your soul nourished.
Anthony Douglas Williams









Oh Yes!  Here:
Church Windows
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The good life is a process, 
not a state of being. 
It is a direction 
not a destination.
             Carl Rogers








This time, like all times,
is a very good one,
if we but know what
to do with it.
              Emerson





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Saturday, February 29, 2020

Promise

A    L    O    H    A   !
No matter how long the winter, 
spring is sure to follow.
        Proverb

















Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
        Thomas Blackburn










Science has never drummed up 
quite as effective a tranquilizing agent
as a sunny spring day.
W. Earl Hall










In Spring, everything is full of promise.... 
The child sporting upon the lawn, and 
the season, sympathize together, and 
nature rejoices in her virgin loveliness.
            Charles Lanman, 
                 "The Dying Year," 1840




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                                cloudia

Friday, February 28, 2020

Answering Passion

A   L   O   H   A  !
Right now, someone you haven’t met is 
out there wondering what it would be like 
to meet someone like you.
               Unknown











We need old friends to help us grow old 
and new friends to help us stay young.
         Letty Cottin Pogrebin




















There is an energy field between humans. 
And, when we reach out in passion, 
it is met with an answering passion 
and changes the relationship forever.
        Rollo May









Reflecting on Northern California Memories
“Love is the only force capable of 
transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.


We need not think alike to love alike.
Francis David





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                             cloudia
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                                Pixie

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Just The Way You Are

A   L   O   H   A  !
Come walk with me around Honolulu's
 McCully/Waikiki Neighborhood- link
You've made this day a special day, 
by just your being you. There's 
no person in the whole world like you, 
and I like you just the way you are.
              Fred Rogers










Be grateful for luck. 
Pay the thunder no mind - 
listen to the birds. 
And don't hate nobody.
       Eubie Blake










I never approve, or disapprove, 
of anything now. 
It is an absurd attitude 
to take towards life. 
We are not sent into the world to 
air our moral prejudices.  
            Oscar Wilde









If you can spend a perfectly 
useless afternoon, in a 
perfectly useless manner, 
you have learned how to live.
         Lin Yutang

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                                cloudia

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Simple But Easy

A    L    O    H    A  !
Don't keep searching for the truth, 
just let go of your opinions.
          Buddha











See if there is not some place 
where you may invest your humanity.
Albert Schweitzer










Tension is who you think 
you should be. 
Relaxation is who you are. 
       Chinese Proverb


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                                  cloudia

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Able To Interpret

A    L    O    H    A  !
I like the small clouds dancing
below the giant one here,
the mother ship.
Dusk In Honolulu.










Dark Dragon chases 
a tasty morsel!













Blessed are they who see 
beautiful things in humble places 
where other people see nothing.
Everything is beautiful, all that 
matters is to be able to interpret. 
             Camille Pissarro














I found this immature coconut
tucked on a ledge at the 
Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor
in Waikiki; Painted to bring out
the creature someone saw.
How long did the waters shape it?
Arctic Seal? Fox?



Leaves and bark, leaves and bark,
To lean against and hear in the dark. ...
         

Robert Frost 





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                                     cloudia