M.ercy! R.eally I. Didn't. . .

Aloha!

Walking on Blossoms



A flower cannot blossom without sunshine,

and man cannot live without love.



Max Muller

Palm Tree Gems



"For a writer,

published works are like fallen flowers,

but the expected new work

is like a calyx waiting to blossom."

Cao Yu

Heron Harry




Let us be grateful to people who make us happy,



they are the charming gardeners




who make our souls blossom."



Marcel Proust

"It is the hour to rend thy chains,

the blossom time of souls."

Katharine Lee Bates

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Getting up before dawn wasn't bad,
in fact, it reminded me of how happy I was
back in the day
making my living
in the nether world of night.


The drive out there through Honolulu's dawn
was enjoyable.


My physician had prescribed an M.R.I on my back.



Of course I assumed that I would be exemplary,
going to my special place
and lying perfectly still inside the tube.


Favorite Husband had his paw MRI-ed last month
but only his lower extremities
had been "in the tube."


Well,

They put me


All The Way In.


Panic threatened.


I thought of the change in dynasties in China
that resulted in former officials
being incarcerated in the equivalent of steamer trunks
for years, with only a rice bowl- sized hole.


I thought of concentration camp inmates
pressed into cattle cars.


I thought of North Korea's prisons.


I shoulda thought about other things, eh?


Keeping my eyes closed
I impersonated a perfect patient.


But I was SO happy to get out of there!


Mercy! Really I

didn't realize I had agreed to do that!


I'll be recovering at home this weekend. . .


What have you got planned?

Warmly, cloudia

Peace, Porpoises & Well Being

What will today hold for our harbor neighborhood?

Some excitement ahead. Crime scene?

LOST has packed up, but LOOK!
The New Hawaii 5-O is filming on this classic turf.

The principles are certainly cute.
(Close-up courtesy of Cloudia-Razzi)

All the buzz is about how really good
the episodes are screening-out.

Everyone included in the production
(and that includes every Honolulu resident :)
is very excited!

CBS, Monday Evenings, Launching in September.

Look for me, eh?


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We'll never enjoy Peace, Poise & Well-Being

As long as we postpone it

as something to be enjoyed in the future-

After graduation,

After the work week,

After this just One More Thing,

After retirement. . .

As Elvis sang: "It's now or never."

"Be here now." Answers Ram Dass.

Because Now is all there is.

And if you Are

Peace, Poise &

Well Met

then the future loses it's sting.


All fall's into place as it enters the present,

Our Home Field!


Aloha, cloudia

Close One!

"Perfection is achieved,

not when there is nothing to add,

but when there is nothing left to take away."


Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Silence

is one of the hardest arguments to refute."

Josh Billings

“In the pure, immaculate waters,

both the lotus and the slimy scum are found.”


Sri Guru Granth Sahib

There is a gold mist slanting through the harbor this morning.


It looks especially beautiful


when I reflect on how very close I came.


Has it been ten years? It has!


I haven't left the islands in this century.


It seemed so tangible, so close. Folks fly back and forth every day (and we're grateful that you come to visit us)


I was really gonna visit the West Coast,

But it got kinda complicated.


Where to stay? Who and When to meet up with.


So I've decided to remain island anchored for a while longer.



After all: I'm where I really wanna be.


And I'm so very glad that YOU have stopped by!


Warmly, cloudia

FULL-ON FORWARD: A COMMENT ON OUR SOCIETY, LINSEY LOHAN, US SOLDIERS

FULL-ON FORWARD: A COMMENT ON OUR SOCIETY, LINSEY LOHAN, US SOLDIERS

Recognize any of these names? Did they make the news????

Justin Allen, 23,

Brett Linley, 29,

Matthew Weikert, 29,

Justus Bartett, 27,
Dave Santos, 21,

Chase Stanley, 21,

Jesse Reed, 26,

Matthew Johnson, 21,
Zachary Fisher, 24,

Brandon King, 23,

Christopher Goeke, 23,

and Sheldon Tate, 27,

are all Marines that gave their lives for you this week.

Equanimity

Aloha!

Your seat is ready

“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show.


When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.”


George Carlin

Tree-Hugger



“They may forget what you said,

but they will never forget how you made them feel.”


Carl W. Buechner

"There is no such thing as pure pleasure;

some anxiety always goes with it."

- Ovid




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One day

we awake with a start

and realize how little of any consequence

we have accomplished.



Then somehow we understand

that nothing really needs to be accomplished.


And the impact we have had on others

for good or ill,

great or small,

must remain a blessed mystery


until illumination


or oblivion. . .

Musing Dignified

It's Aloha Sunday. . .
Wanna Hang Out Here a While?

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around,

and don't let anybody tell you different.”


Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

"All theory, dear friend, is gray,

but the golden tree of life springs ever green."


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Noble Nipple Fruit
now dazzling Foster Botanical Garden.




"Memory is a child walking along a seashore.

You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up

and store away among its treasured things."


~Pierce Harris



Thanks for being a bloggy pal!

Four Squares

Aloha to YOU!

EARTH
A tiny plant grows on a lava rock . . .



"Behold, my friends,

the spring is come;

the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun,

and we shall soon see the results of their love!"


Sitting Bull

WATER
We go to the sea for recreation, healing & wisdom.


When we are born

our bodies are about 78% water.

As we age, that goes to 55 to 60%

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“Don't you realize that the sea is the home of water?

All water is off on a journey unless it's in the sea,

and it's homesick, and bound to make its way home someday”

Zora Neale Hurston

FIRE


"To poke a wood fire

is more solid enjoyment

than almost anything else in the world."

~Charles Dudley Warner




"The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire."

~Leigh Hunt


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"The fire you kindle for your enemy

often burns yourself more than them."

~Chinese Proverb


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"Life is a flame that is always burning itself out,

but it catches fire again every time a child is born."

~George Bernard Shaw



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AIR


“Those who dwell among the beauties

and mysteries of the earth

are never alone or weary of life.”

Rachel Carson