If You Are Reading This...

Note: This sheduled post was set to publish if my computer blew up. Now that I have a new laptop I thought I'd share it merely for your pleasure. To recap: I will be posting as usual!

Don't worry!

I'm NOT dead. . . at least I don't think I am.

But my computer is so old ("How old is it?")

that it is STEAM powered.

It's operating system was written by a caveman.

It has taken some interesting contortions, tricks, and propitiations to keep the old Dell running.

But I do love my antique technology. . . .
Plus, I'm as thrifty as a grandmother.

I went through a time of asking every computer-savvy

person I met:

"Are you a Mac or a PC?"

I examined the option of using a Net Book.

Finally, I decided to stay an un-hip PC laptop.

Windows 7!

If I can just hold on until I can buy a box with Windows 7!

Thursday October 22 is the day that I can buy a computer with the newest operating system

(and put the old one into a museum!).

I'm really looking forward to it.

Visiting all of YOUR blogs has been an ordeal with the old OS; I'm really looking forward to visiting you more often!

But if you are reading this post, it means that I didn't make it.

The old lap top has finally passed on!

Thanks old pal; We graduated college, wrote a novel, and launched this blog together.

So if you, my Dear Bloggy Pals, are reading this: PLEASE be patient!

Please check back!

I will return, as Benjamin Franklin's gravestone says, "In a revised and improved edition."

Do check out posts you may have missed.

There's tons of stuff here that deserves to live beyond it's

one butterfly day.

In REAL Cloudia withdrawals (so modest!) you might consider clicking on the image of my little novel at the foot of this blog. That will take you to Amazon where you can buy the sweet little book that many folks seem to have enjoyed.

" I'll be BACK!!!

I WILL Find YOU! "

Until then, Warm Aloha to Each of YOU, my friends.

I'll be (in withdrawals and) missing YOU more. . . .Cloudia

Hump Week

A L O H A

to YOU.

&

W E L C O M E

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"The key to communication

is the attitude that lies behind

what we say."

Marianne Williamson

"Nobody holds a good opinion

of a man who has

a low opinion of himself."

Anthony Trollope

"To talk to a child, to fascinate him,

is much more difficult than to win an electoral victory.

But it is also more rewarding."

Colette

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As many as ten thousand of them may be expected.

They show up every year.

The Kolea (golden plover)

has already arrived from Alaska.

But these honored guests have waited

to make their entrance.

Till now!

This week

off Maui:

The humpback whales have returned once more!

To calve, to nurse, to enjoy our island waters.

Aloha Welcome

our longtime friends!

In your faithfulness

you remind us of ancient cycles.

And

we celebrate you

with awe.

All guests - that's YOU dear reader -

bring a blessing.

Thank You Most Warmly, Cloudia

You might enjoy these previous posts about whales:

http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/2008/12/whales-return.html

http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/2008/12/click-on-photos-to-enlarge-ted-trimmer.html

http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/2009/04/seasonable-neighbors.html

F L Y I N G

A L O H A

Means "You are welcomed lovingly."

Sometimes it means "Goodbye with love."

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Leaving on a jet plane. . .

(The biggest hit song for Peter, Paul and Mary,

and also their last. 1969)

"Oh, kiss me and smile for me

Tell me that you'll wait for me

Hold me like you'll never let me go'

Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane

I don't know when I'll be back again

Oh, babe, I hate to go"

John Denver

I am rooted, but my scent travels to you on a breeze!

"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall,

but a hundred acorns are sown in silence

by an unnoticed breeze.”
Thomas Carlyle

Hawaiian Heirloom Bracelet with Olde English Script
alluding to a "Cloud" in Hawaiian. Accompanying bangles are
"Mings of Honolulu" estate pieces.

“How sweet to be a Cloud

Floating in the Blue!”
A. A. Hodge








This video is exhilarating.
Come slip the surly bonds of Earth with me.
Let's play in the sky!

Till tomorrow, friend!

A L O H A Cloudia

Remarkable Cherif

A L O H A

to You Friend. . . Come In!

Photo Click Regime in Place

Workers in Squares

"Whether you think you can - or you can't- you are right."

Henry Ford

Summer Lingers in Waikiki



"We always find what we are looking for."
Psychological Principle



Kitty. . . You LLook...Strange!









Did you ever want to go out into the desert and study with all the contemplative monks in their isolated cells?
To stand upon the power spots of the pyramids
and temples of Egypt?
To read ancient wisdom books at the Vatican in their original words, and to speak many languages?
How would you like to develop so much insight and behavioral prowess that you travel the world as a gifted medical intuitive?





Well, on Saturday I met remarkable young man who has done all of those things; Meet Cherif.






Cherif spoke to a small group about discovering our true desire, about acting with inner conviction, and about achieving that desire "as if you are racing there on rails."






Some of Cherif's Wisdom:




"Without self confidence you will never see the way,"
he told us.
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"The key is knowing yourself, and having such intimacy with wisdom, that you trust & understand that guidance will always be there when needed."
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"If we keep sending present energy into the past and future,
it turns into poison in our lives."
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"Gratitude is power."
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"Once you judge someone or something, you are stuck with the experiences that grow out of that judgement."
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"We too often navigate from our experiences - we need to change our minds to change our experiences.
We find just what we expect to."
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"Our emotion is the fuel
that makes our thoughts come to pass."
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"Nonresistance frees your energy."
(Don't resist - follow your desire somewhere different.)
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"Be patient - be happy."
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"Don't analyze - accept and move forward."
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"Grace cancels karma, translating you to a place
where you live on divine substance."






Yes, Cherif gave us many tools for changing our lives,
but some seemed dissappointed that it wasn't magic, instant, or something that he would do for us.


Instead he shared what he has learned so far on his remarkable spiritual journey.





Why is it that we seldom want to take the very steps that will take us where it is we say that we want to go?



I have learned that following my bliss sometimes leads (paradoxically) through unsought challenges. I have come to almost enjoy, not fear, such envelope-pushing.






Sometimes a dragon guards the treasure we desire.
Staying in our comfort zone will not get us to the prize.




Cherif has discovered some great truths and lives happily with them. What are YOUR great truths?
Do they serve or hinder you?
Just remember that the Comfort Spiral is here for you,
an oasis on the way out of exile. . .


ALOHA & Thank You for YOUR Visit Today!
Cloudia

Queen Bamboo in the Pagoda of Love

ALOHA

to YOU, Friends

photos may be clicked for bigness Mounted Pa`u Rider

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love,

you must have the courage to live it."

John Irving

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,

while others judge us by what we have already done."

Longfellow

"An egotist is a person of low taste -

more interested in himself than in me."

Ambrose Bierce

We think we're supposed to be busy,

proactive, and ever alert.

It's buyer beware

your own damned fault;

Hey! Look where you are going!

Vacation's a commodity

you need to book and pay for.

We feel guilty

"just doing nothing"

though that's where the action is.

We have lost the primal knack

of living in the moment

being free without atonement

But here & now

is where the action is.

Thank you for joining us here!

Saturday I met a remarkable man, on Sunday I attended a Blogger Party here in Honolulu with Kay of Musings, Ian Lind, Burl Burlingame, and our hostess, Gigi in Hawaii (http://travelerswife.blogspot.com/2009/10/gigis-blogger-bash.html)

.....But more about all that later........Gotta run! This week I MUST buy a new computer. I haven't been able to visit all of you as much as I want - but that will all change soon! Thanks SO much for your dear visits here...

Warm ALOHA, to YOU

Our Skies, Our Flags

A L O H A

You are Welcome,

My Monday Friend

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"Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Jung

"The world is divided into people who think they are right."

A. Nony Mouse

"But I am that which unseen comes and sings, sings, sings,

Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land,

Which the birds know in the woods, mornings and evenings,

And the shore-sands know, and the hissing wave, and that

banner and pennant,

Aloft there flapping and flapping."

Whitman

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I

Sing and flap

and flip be-glapped.

Like the sing-a-ding bird

in a wooley-whee tree.

I sing out my heart with a nonsense decree

trusting you to feel the beat

of love be-glopping

over you

and over me.

Warm A L O HA! Cloudia

Chapel of Nature; All Welcome

A L O H A, Friend

You are Welcome Inside

click on photos to dally gaily

Delicate Ladies of Nature Invite Us to Linger,

Wreathed in their best Pink Perfume. . .

“Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified

as in real life itself.”
Berenice Abbott

A Sky is Just a Sky . . .

(A Diamond is Just Flawless - That's all!)

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain.

From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
Frank Herbert

But Villain Mood May Even High-Jack the Eye!


“You will find poetry nowhere

unless you bring some of it with you.”

Joseph Joubert





Don't let it!
Refuse to board the train of recrimination
when it slides into your station.
Standing with doors open
inviting us inside.


But it only goes
to the end of the line,
never really seeing
the glories
as they skip
and sing past,
oblivious to all
"stinkin` thinkin`"
as we ought to be.

Eat the ice cream!
Cut the cake!
That we save goes mouldy
so dance like
today's the
Day
!



A L O H A
Means "Love" unconditional
to you &
to me. . . . Cloudia