Listen to the Warmth

ALOHA

Freezing Friends
Welcome to
THURSDAY
in
WARM WAIKIKI

click on photos to thaw out

Thinking of a title for this post,
I came up with
"Listen to the Warm."

Ring any bells?

"To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete."
Buckminster Fuller

"A fine quotation
is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit,
and a pebble
in the hand of a fool."
Joseph Roux

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Remember Rod McKuen
("Listen to the Warm")
that rarest of all things:
a popular, mainstream poet?


Before him
it was Robert Frost,
rewarding the average reader
but not disappointing the scholar either.


Who do we have that is like that today?
Kanye West?
(Just kidding!)


Maya Angelou
is considered political.
There is very little that we ALL subscribe to.


The Simpsons,



Celebrating their 25th year, is the longest-running show on TV.
The characters are beloved (and bemoaned) all over the world.


Don't have a COW,
Man!

Perhaps there are no longer "mainstream" anything?
My favorite poets of today are much closer than some pedestal
on the top of a mountain somewhere.
In fact they are bloggers like you & me!

You can even visit them in an instant by clicking:

Walking Man

&

Shay




Aloha ha ha, cloudia

Lilac Star

ALOHA!

E Komo Mai - Welcome Friend

click on the contentment

The end of another perfect Waikiki day



"We all look at Nature too much,
and live with her too little."
Oscar Wilde

A Narcissus Queen & Court have been selected for the Year of the Tiger.

"I'd rather be ruled by a wise Turk than a stupid Christian."
Martin Luther

Soon they will be here!

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"In the main,
and from the beginning of time,
mysticism has kept men sane.
The thing that has driven them mad
was logic."
G.K. Chesterton


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In a real situation

you are never really alone.

You plan for the uncertain

by being alive,

grateful,

and resilient

today.

Prudence

should never become

a straitjacket.

And remember:

Don't just act nice;

Be Nice!

with ALOHA, cloudia

Poem of Night

ALOHA

Welcome, Friend,

to the Time of Mystery

click on photos to enter deepest night

"The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight

has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world"

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No sight is more productive of awe than is the night sky." Llewelyn Powys

Poems written upon awakening at dawn are called aubades.

"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don't go back to sleep.

Rumi

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Watching a small film called Three Days of Rain

inspired the poem below.

Some of you know that my Hawaii novel Aloha Where You Like Go

largely takes place in a Honolulu taxi at night.

The film took me right back to the taxi - and to the sacred night. . .

At the bottom of this blog you will see the cover of my book.

You may click on it to go to Amazon.com and read over 25 reviews!

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Things seen at night

fill me with delight.

They have a "not quite"

that somehow shows their deeper true.

All cats are gray

and pass on little mist feet.

A raindrop's path

down a pane of glass

is the timeline of an empire

too much to know:

dissolving,

freezing Master Mind.

Inconsequential words

are freighted with

eternity.

Inner seas hold sway-

till the light changes

and we continue

on our way.

We've reached your destination;

Thanks for riding along!

ALOHA, cloudia

No Comparison

Aloha Monday

It's
ALOHA Monday,

Friend!

Come Right In-

click on photos, eh?

"If you would live without worry, live one day at a time.
Drop yesterday with it's mistakes and failures.
Shut out tomorrow with it's foreboding.
Don't waste your time with futile fears and morbid musings.
Each day is a little life. Be glad and grateful for it's wonder.
Live it with confidence and joy."

Paul Osumi

"The devil is easy to identify.

He appears when you are terribly tired

and makes a very reasonable request

which you know you shouldn't grant."

Fiorello LaGuardia

"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly,

our whole life would change."
Buddha

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Look for the spiral,
ever widening,
inclusive,
more and more,
people are joining in.

The spiral is
dynamic,
pleasing,
and ever-upward.

More and more
it appears in our culture.
A dance we all may join.

Come into the spiral
with us!

You are always welcome
here!



ALOHA, cloudia

`Nana Patch Unfold

ALOHA
Friend

Welcome to
Sunday
on
OAHU


click on photos to rinse your mind

Let's shower in the banana patch!

Maybe you need more privacy?
The black tank on top warms the water in the sun.

"Privacy and security are those things you give up
when you show the world what makes you extraordinary."

Margaret Cho




"Publication is a self-invasion of privacy."

Marshall McLuhan

See how the Banana leaves unfold?
Banana trees are actually giant grasses, not trees.




"All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud,
you have first an instinct, then an opinion,
then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit.
Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

See how this fern is unfolding as well?
How does it know how to grow all wrapped up like that?





"Each of us is born with the potential for the unfolding of our true self.
When you deviate from the truth, you are interfering with the intention
of something greater than you are-
call it nature or a higher power.
As a result, you develop discomfort."

Annonymous

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My wish for you this Sunday?
Privacy
to share as you will
and a peaceful
exultation.



ALOHA! cloudia

Weather or Not

ALOHA
Friend!

Come In
E Komo Mai

Come Warm Yourself


click on the sunshine!

My first panorama shot on my FujiFilm A220 blending three shots into one.

"What we know of the world comes to us primarily through vision.
Our eyes, however, are sensitive only to that segment of the spectrum
located between red and violet;
the remaining 95 percent of all existing light
(cosmic, infrared, ultraviolet, gammas, and x-rays)
we cannot see.
This means that we percieve only 5 precent of the "real" world."
Amos Vogel

"Non-ordinary experiences are vital to us
because they are expressions of our unconscious minds,
and the integration of conscious and unconscious experiences
is the key to life, health, spiritual development,
and fullest use of our nervous systems.
By instilling fear and guilt about altered states of consciousness into our children, we force this drive underground,
guaranteeing that it will be expressed in anti-social ways."
Andrew Weil MD

"If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear as it is
- infinite"

Blake

The morning started grey and dark
with rain skirling the deck above our waking heads.
Boat Kitty came inside with damp fur-
our version of a Waikiki Snow Day.

Some part of my North American-born brain thinks:
Heavy clothing, Traffic Mess, and Wrenching My Back with that Sudden Slip on Sneaky Sinister Ice.
But it's just rain, folks.

Maybe it will clear the volcanic haze that we call VOG
from our skies, which have been blowing up from the Big Island Hawaii
(i.e. KONA Winds) for days now.


Then
as quickly as a local smile
the clouds lighten up
to show a True Blue
as the dancing palms smile back
a greener green.

Tomorrow
more Trade Winds will rush in from Alaska
like avenging, holy angels.
Skies, and heads, will clear
and newly arriving visitors
will think 'twas ever thus.


And so it has been:
Only in Hawaii - World's Best Weather
So lucky to be here in Waikiki.



The beauty of snowy pewter skies,
sparkling fairy trees,
muffled city streets,
and the heroism of frozen livestock water
finds me via YOUR blogs.


Mahalo, my friends.
There is always warm Aloha
here for you.

Come laze in da Spiral
before you scrape your
windshield (wind screen).



WELCOME! cloudia