Simpler Times

A l o h a !

"Here is a test

to find out whether your mission in life

is complete.

If you're alive, it isn't." 

Richard Bach

Simple, boring peace & quiet;

Just what the people of Jerusalem

are NOT enjoying today.

We send them,

and all who cope with

violence,

our Aloha.

“To be humble to superiors is duty,

to equals courtesy,

to inferiors nobleness.”

 

Benjamin Franklin

And now, let's take a trip to a simpler time. Click on the song,

listen while you view the video!

Eye Path

Aloha to 

                                YOU!

Patiently Playing 'Second Fiddle'

"Oh, the comfort - 

the inexpressible comfort

of feeling safe with a person - "

Dinah Craik, 

A Life for a Life, 1859

"Marriage

is grad school

for the soul."

cloudia

"Let us be grateful

to people who make us happy, 

they are the charming gardeners 

who make our souls blossom. "

Marcel Proust

"Someone to tell it to 

is one of the fundamental needs

of human beings. "

Miles Franklin

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Every experienced motorcyclist knows

NOT to look at the rock ahead of you

in the road.

The bike will follow your eye;

Look at the path AROUND the obstacle

and that is the way you will go.

        Just like life. . .cloudia

Secrets in the Sky

'ALOHA'
              Means Welcome!

"This is the beginning of a new day. 

You have been given this day to use as you will. 

You can waste it or use it for good. 

What you do today is important

because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.

When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever;

in its place is something that you have left behind...

                          let it be something good."
                                                    annon

"Seeing into darkness is clarity
Knowing how to yield is strength."

Lao Tse

"We carry within us the wonders
we seek without us."

                                  Thomas Browne


You know what to do!  
    Play the song, then watch the video as you listen-

Super Moon Tonight!

          Aloha Friend :-)

 

"I'd say it's worth a look."  

Geoff Chester,

US Naval Observatory,

Washington DC

Gem!

 

 

 

 

“Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth;

whilst on the surface of this world,

all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.”

 Lord Byron 

 

                   

"Whoever possesses that chest,

possesses the leverage

to command Davy Jones to do

whatever it is he or she wants."

Captain Jack Sparrow 

Not-So-Super Moon, smiling

 “If, instead of a gem, or even a flower,

we should cast the gift of a loving thought

into the heart of a friend,

that would be giving as the angels give”
 George MacDonald

A “Super Moon”
like we will enjoy tonight,

is a new or full moon

when Mistress Moon rides within 90 percent of her closest approach to Earth.

While this happens 4-6 times a year,

NASA says that tonight's full moon will nearly coincide

with the moon's closet orbit point around the Earth, 

making tonight's performance the biggest, visible 
full moon in North America in two decades!  

Officially, a “Super Moon” is called a "perigee moon.”  But who cares about being official? 

Super moons are
about 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter 
than non-perigee moons. . .

When the weather cooperates, that is.

 "Tonight's full Moon (March 19th)
occurs less than one hour away from perigee – a near-perfect coincidence that happens
only every18 years or so;
The last full Moon so big and close to Earth 
occurred in March of 1993."
Said Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC.

Contrary to some alarms circulating  around the Web, perigee Moons do not trigger natural disasters. The "super moon" of March 1983,  passed without incident. And an almost-super Moon in Dec. 2008

also proved harmless. 
(Besides, don't we have enough disasters
right now?)

If you want to try and see the full effect,

(and take your mind off disasters

even closer to our planet)

  then look when the Moon is near the horizon

in the early evening.

 

That is when illusion mixes with reality

to produce an incredible view,

  say the nerds at NASA. 

 

They promise that it will appear 

close enough to touch!

A super perigee Moon is still 356,577 km away. 

But in space, that's kissing distance!

So blow some to the man, or rabbit, or goddess 

that you see up there.

       Your Loony Pal, cloudia

"What If" Up & Down

Aloha - WEEKEND!

"The torment of precautions

often exceeds

the dangers to be avoided.

  It is sometimes better to abandon one's self

to destiny."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Prudence keeps life safe,

but does not often make it happy."

Samuel Johnson

"The healthy being craves an occasional wildness,

a jolt from normality, 

a sharpening of the edge of appetite, 

his own little festival of the Saturnalia,

a brief excursion 

from his way of life. "

Robert MacIver

"The knowledge of the world

is only to be acquired in the world,

and not in a closet."

Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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What if?

Have you noticed

most of our 'what if's

are negative?

What if. . . ?

We all fill in that fearsome space.

That is 

"What If Down."

But what if GREAT things 

are just waiting to happen?

How would it change your internal weather

if your clouds were white and orange and puffy,

 speckled with

a smiling moon,

and singing with lovely

hopes?

That's

"What If Up."

We REALLY need this 

WEEKEND-

so TAKE it!

(Weather maps
show winds out of Japan

passing well north of our islands.

Nice for me, eh?)

Thanks for spending some time here with us!

This weekend,

practice your

"What If Ups."

What if something wonderful 

accepted your mental invitation!

Just muse on that for a while.

         Warmly, cloudia

 

What's Normal Now?

Aloha   from   Waikiki!

"A person often meets

their destiny

on the road they took

to avoid it."

Jean de la Fontaine

How am I doing?

"Normal is not something to aspire to,

it's something to get away from. "

Jodie Foster

Yawn; Just fine. Thanks...

It's been a week today. . .

Since a normal evening at home (on board) became an emergency.

The sound of sirens still makes me jumpy, but I seem to be recovering

some sense of normalcy (which is really great for a certified 'worrier').

Of course it's not 'over.'

Our neighbors just over the horizon in Japan

face a nightmare that threatens to blow our way.

Everyday I hear of some local whose wife/husband is

visiting elderly relatives in Japan. Most of them have been heard from.

Oahu resident Jack Johnson is in Osaka with his family (and donated $50,000 USD).

Raiatea Helm has returned to the islands,

And the last stranded Japanese visitors have been repatriated.

Everyday there is some new 'benefit' to raise money,

we are cleaning up our debris,

and "Aloha Japan" shirts are selling out @ $20 per

100% for Japan relief.

The "Honolulu Festival" parade last Sunday

was a sea of Japanese participants chanting

"Unity" in Japanese. Quite moving as the crowds on the sidewalk

cheered them on.

It seems a small thing, all in all,

but our state has budget problems like most others at this time

and revenue projections are down

with the cancellation of many, many reservations from Japan

(and elsewhere)

So if YOU ever wanted to come to Hawaii,

this would be the time for some amazing deals!

Click on the "Honolulu Hotels" link to the right

(under all your pictures!).

Every little thing:

Pausing. Breathing. Reiki.

Accomplishing  routine tasks-

It's all helping me to remain on an even keel.
(Heh heh, literally! I'm writing this on a boat! :-)

Tomorrow will be better.

Sorry I haven't been blog visiting!

I miss you guys-

Warmly, cloudia

Tsunami Effects: Waikiki Harbor

Warm Aloha Greetings!

Thank YOU for your compassionate comments-

A new day arises. . .

"Bear and endure:

This sorrow will one day prove

to be for your

good."

Ovid

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal.

When words are both true and kind,

they can change our world."

 Buddha

 

 

"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death

can erase our good deeds.

You only lose what you cling to.

Fill your mind with compassion."

 Buddha

 

Here is some video that I shot of weird flows in our protected harbor:





This shows the effects on our boat:

Here are more views of the Hawaii damage:

HERE