A Wonderful Visit to Rajastan!

This post by friend Bhavesh is just fascinating!

http://infobybvc.blogspot.com/2009/12/bhangarh.html

Yearning Part II

ALOHA

Welcome to 2010

in Waikiki

click on the sky photos for possible revelation

"At the innermost core of all loneliness

is a deep and powerful yearning

for union with one's lost self.

Brendan Francis

"I seldom think about my limitations,

and they never make me sad.

Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;

but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."

Helen Keller

"Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy

but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth."

Jay Cocks

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Recently

in a post here

I wondered if the loss of

YEARNING

was something to be mourned.

After writing it

and reading your comments

I began to think that perhaps

my yearning is simply

being

satisfied.

Maybe,

I thought,

there are new signposts

leading me to a destination

that is nearer than ever before.

What if the kingdom

is nearer than we dream?

What if it is at hand

not tomorrow

but in our hearts

right this very minute?

Perhaps we enter heaven

when we dare to believe

and to

let go

?

May this young year

bring you a new kind of wisdom.

May you begin your life in heaven

even as we fight the traffic,

pay the bills,

and create solutions.

Dare to believe

that all is working out

-even as you effort-

and you will become

untouchable . . .

. . .As your influence

expands.

Aloha, dear heart! cloudia

Obamas and Hawaii Marines

ALOHA!

Here is some video of the Obamas chatting on-base with military folks on Christmas Day...

Happy New Year

Warm Aloha & Best Wishes to YOU, my Friend!
cloudia

New Year's Eve in Waikiki

ALOHA!

it's

New Year Time

in

Waikiki!

click on photos - if you have the time!

The Parade of Life Continues. . .

"We are here to help each other get through this thing,

whatever it is."

Kurt Vonnegut

Some of us are watching it go by. . .

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."

Confucius

And the river, too, flows on. . .

"We don't know the truth at all.

There's mysteries that bubble up within us

that we can't explain

and we can't understand.

And those are

humbling mysteries."

Jamie Hook

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Yesterday, some 50,000 pounds of red ahi tuna

passed through Honolulu's United Fish Auction.

EVERYBODY, not just ethnically Japanese residents,

wants to eat the lucky fish at New Year's time!

In Kapahulu and Aiea the THWACK! of the wooden mallet is heard as it comes down in the stone Usu to turn the rice into chewy mochi.

Watch your hand, Uncle!

May we all stick together just like this mochi,

where individual grains of rice have melded.

After his broadcast statement, the President and his family spent Tuesday afternoon at Hanauma Bay snorkeling.

Then yesterday they visited with some of Barry's school friends

on the North Shore.

While he was preparing to tee off (Monday I think) at the course where he learned the game as a boy, the young son of one of his foursome injured himself back at the beach compound (Winter White House?) so they all motored back to the home - the kid is OK. It was described as a "routine beach injury."

I'm sure that the Secret Service could do without the Hawaii custom of

New Year fireworks!

Though firecrackers have just gone (legally) on sale, we have been seeing and hearing illegal aerials for weeks now!

Every year it's the same.

Families who received Toys for Tots for their kids are now seen blowing hundreds on explosives. . . oh well. . .

Tonight, the professional shows will be echoed by the illegals all over the island. The Trade Winds have slacked off, so we can expect a smoky New Year's Eve - no fun for the fire fighters or the police - or anyone with breathing problems.

Pets too suffer and must be sequestered indoors and even sedated.

Meanwhile 70's icons The Village People will bring in the New Year

at one of the hotels down the beach.

We will be sharing champagne here on board da boat.

2009 has been a Year OF Review: the 40th anniversary of the Moon Landing, of Woodstock, the passing of Walter Cronkite, as well as numerous other 30, 40 year observances including the 50th anniversary of Hawaii Statehood.

Perhaps we will look ahead to new solutions in the

Year of the Tiger

So Happy New Year, Hauoli Makahiki Hou to Y O U, friend!

Thank you for sharing your visits and comments here at Comfort Spiral!

See you next year . . .

ALOHA, cloudia

Listen To Louis

ALOHA!

Welcome to Year's End
in

Golden
W A I K I K I



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Diamond Head Celebrates

"My whole life has been happiness,
I love everybody."
Louis Armstrong

Honolulu's Chinatown
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"Chinatown is one of the coolest, most interesting places in urban Oahu.
Sure it's gritty, but that's part of it's charm.
Where else can you choose from a rainbow of perfumed shampoos
that sit on a shelf above raw goat meat and a whole pig's head?
It's not a manicured, controlled, master-planned community.
It has all the noise, smells and energy of an open market."
Lee Cataluna

Do you suppose that entire truck is FULL of chocolate??!!

"I began to recognize what I had considered Pops' (Louis Armstrong) grinning in the face of racism as his absolute refusal to let anything, even anger about racism, steal the joy from his life."
Dizzie Gillespie

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Is the loss of yearning something to be mourned?
Or was it just the glorification of anxiety?

Even so - if that be the case -
I turned my unease
into a quest for
MORE
experience, knowledge,
and life.

Each new beginning of my life
has been preceded by
existential dissatisfaction
leading to a change,
to chance,
akin to a rebirth.

So is it OK,
or a cosmic sell-out,
to say:
"This must be the place,"
To feel content
or am I losing my edge,
my SELF?


The world
(I am discovering)
operates by rules
very different
from those I grew up with.


Perhaps I needn't be
on guard
quite so much.


I do believe
I will dare to choose
feel good
over
fear.


I made this decision
when I realized that
animals usually look pretty
relaxed.


And when the moment
of Leap & Pounce
is announced
I will do so in an
instant!

Then
return to grooming
and staring
into
Space...


ALOHA, my Year-End Friends!
cloudia

Musing

ALOHA!
Welcome to the Sun
of Waikiki


click on photos to feel the warm

“There exists only the present instant...
a Now which always and without end is itself new.
There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow,
but only Now,
as it was a thousand years ago
and as it will be a thousand years hence.”

Meister Eckhart

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this;
not why, only that we were here like this, together.”

Adrienne Rich


These moments that we share
are precious.

ALOHA Dear Friend, cloudia