pedestals

A L O H A

              

 

Moloch 

whose mind is pure machinery!

Moloch whose blood is running money!

Moloch whose fingers are ten armies!

Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo!

Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb! 

Allen Ginsberg
  Howl and Other Poems

 

 

 

 

 "A School Boy in Hawaii"

Dr. Sun Yat-sen

Age 13

Artist: Chu Tat Shing, 2007

Gift to our city by the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawaii Foundation

"This is my Hawaii. . .

here I was brought up and educated,

and it was here that I came to know

what modern, civilized governments are like

and what they mean."

Dr. Sun Yat-sen

He came to the islands from Zhongshan

in 1879 at age 13.

His Revive China Society was founded here.

 

"A pedestal

is as much a prison

as any small, confined space. "

 
Gloria Steinem

)-(

What's on YOUR pedestal?

What do you REALLY

f e a r

&

s e r v e

?

Is your God 

unconditionally loving,

holding the door of forgiveness open

way past dark?

 Or rigid and correct,

tricking people

into messing up

for the pleasure of

judgment,

punishment?

All 

'rules cast in cement'

?

Is your belief

an IDOL

instead of

an inspiration

?

please leave a comment, 

        "Huh?" is acceptable :-) cloudia

How To Add Music to a You Tube Video

A l o h a ! 

Let's learn how

to add music

to your You Tube videos!

Music really enhances your videos.

Especially if you make a lot of slide shows
like I do.

click to enlarge!

 In the upper right side, after you've signed in,

you will see your name. (As above)

 

1) Click on the arrow by your name

and select 'My Videos.' You will see the

screen shown above.

2)Select the one you want

and click 'Edit' to it's immediate right side

as shown above.

 You will be taken to  the screen above. 

(click on the photo to enlarge)

Choose:

1) "I'm Feeling Lucky"

or  

2) search & choose a song that appeals to you,

then click on it to highlight. 

3)Then click on 'Preview' under your video as above.

4) If you like it, just click 'Publish.'

OR you can click 'Cancel' and try another song.

It's EASY! 

Now: Your Turn.

           Are you going to TRY it? Tell us in 'comments.' cloudia

Waikiki Sky Celebration

A LO H A !

   Come Walk

Under Waikiki's Amazing Skies With Me!

"My soul is in the sky"
William Shakespeare,

 A Midsummer Night's Dream

What I learned

Aloha to YOU!

 

"You are as young as your faith,

as old as your doubt;
 as young as your self-confidence,

as old as your fear;
 as young as your hope,

as old as your despair."

  Douglas MacArthur

"A circle is the reflection of eternity. 

It has no beginning and it has no end -

and if you put several circles over each other,

then you get a spiral. "

Maynard James Keenan

 

 

 

 

 

I learned how to add sound

to my You Tube videos, and 

it adds SO much. . . 

. . . I hope you'll agree!

So what do YOU think?  cloudia

Stay Tuned

Aloha Welcome, to YOU!

 

"Follow your bliss
                         and the universe will open doors
                                                                    for you

                                                                                where    there were only walls."
 
                     Joseph Campbell

"Beauty - 

in projection and perceiving -

is 99.9% attitude."

Grey Livingston

"Beauty... 

is the shadow of God

on the universe."

  Gabriela Mistral, 

Desolacíon

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President Obama has been forced

to release his Birth Certificate.

Obviously, he is SO DIFFERENT

that many Americans

'just feel that they're not sure about him.'

For one thing, he graduated Cum Laude

 from our most esteemed University,

he held the top spot

at the top US law school

as editor of the Harvard Law Review. 

How did he do that?

I mean, just LOOK at him!

Something fishy must be going on.

That wife of his has suggested

that school children

eat healthy food,

and that we honor

military families.

How DARE she!? 

Someone like

THAT

will never tell ME

what to do!

You know, 

some of the most serious problems

our nation, and our international system

have ever faced

are demanding our attention.

My neighbors here on Oahu,

or their children,

are on their fifth deployment

to Afghanistan.

WWII, our US Civil War,

The Great War;

They lasted what, four years?

Hawaii people are raising funds

and visiting family & friends in

Japan (remember Japan?)

to help in the devastation.

Americans are more dispirited,

including Hawaii residents,

than I have ever seen them.

The middle class is so decimated;

The gulf between those

who think everything

is just ducky-

and the vast majority of

LOSERS

in our democracy-

is now SO wide

that the media, Washington,

Dubai, and Wall Street

don't know OR CARE

about the HAVOC they are wreaking

in our fabric of social trust.

Reasonable solutions

take a back seat

to policy changes SO radical

that the head spins

as one realizes how the policy suggestions

of Nixon, Reagan & Bush the elder

are now "too far left"

as we are ratcheted click by click

into a winner-takes-all 

Cloud Cuckoo Land

where booming corporations

pay NO US taxes 

as our infrastructure:

social, physical, and moral

crumble.

Compare our airports, cities,

and medical systems

to those of other developed nations

and we are not number 1,

we are just numb.

All this is macro of course.

Yes, I'm a bit poorer than I was

just before the panic of 2008.

I'm glad the geniuses that caused it

have been amply rewarded.

You see,

I live in my own Cloud(ia)  Land.

Yes, I vote, testify, write, comment, call

and visit the Sate Capitol,

one HAS to.

But at end of day,

when you close your eyes,

it is the furniture of your soul-

not of your bedroom-

that really matters.

We are suffering

Malefactors of Great Wealth & Power,

but 

they are getting SO far ahead of reality,

that many average people(voters!)

are remembering

their TRUE values & interests. . .

And it AIN'T about the 

President's Birth Certificate!

Stay tuned. 

Once, millions of humans changed their mind

and a 'thousand year' Berlin Wall

fell to dancing feet.

Jews & Arabs on the street

are fed up with the way things have been

for too long in the Middle East.

So stay Tuned.  

Stay Tuned for Miracles-

be sure to look for them,

pray for them,

work for them. . . 

and DO stop by 'comments'

          warmly, cloudia

"Girls" Should You Act Your Age?

ALOHA !

today's song-

"How old would you be 

if you didn't know

how old you were?"

  ~Satchel Paige

"You can't hide your true colours

as you approach the autumn of your life."

Author Unknown

"It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen."

  Brigitte Bardot

 

I always knew that, with luck,

someday I'd be 50.

But never really believed it.

(No, today is NOT my birthday - yet :)

"I'm not old, just not young anymore."

said ex-screen star Alexandra Del Lago

in the film Sweet Bird of Youth.

One day in my early thirties,

I realized that I was the star

of every commercial, movie, TV show, magazine.

Everywhere I looked, things were being sold to me,

or by a woman like me.

We value what is hard to get.

  A young woman like I was then

is awash in testosterone.

(And perhaps hard to get)

  Men are everywhere

and she can read their minds,

because they all think alike.

If you read my novel, you know

that I have some familiarity with the sex industry

which is, after all,

the trafficking in beauty & desire.

But I remember too the longing

to be more than a sex object.

Too bad we can't bottle youth's surplus

of beauty & attraction

for days of scarcity!

Those days when we become

largely invisible

middle aged women.

And some of today's invisibility

would have been a comfort back then!

Joan Collins said,

"The problem with beauty

is that it's like being born rich

and getting poorer."

I still remember that time (years back now)

when I put on my make up and didn't see

the glow,

the magic in my mirror.

All I saw was me wearing make up:

the wealth was spent,

the illusion had fled!

Now I'm discovering the power

that comes to a

reasonably nice-looking

older woman;

The power to bless.

Younger people can act tiresome.

Young women can seem vain & shallow,

(just like I did.

I can read their minds, you see.)

But I smile like Buddha or Kwan Yin

or Mary,

blessing the people around me.

Sincerely.

I hope I look savvy, 

 kind,

and approachable

as I broadcast:

"Celebrate your beauty,

your choices,

your mistakes.

  That's the text of your life

out of which

you will tease the meaning

of

your personality &amp problems

from a wiser shore.

"The years teach much

which the days never knew."

  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want them to see

that growing older is wonderful,

not a tragedy.

  They need that gift

in our youth obsessed

"culture."

"Look at me, I'm old but I'm happy."

sings Cat Stevens` Father in the song.

Regret is futile, ugly, and soul crushing:

for you and everyone else around you.

And besides, 

I don't want to look back from 

real "old age" and regret 

that I began to feel 'old'

in my comparatively young 50s!

After all:

"Fifty is the youth of old age."

  ~Victor Hugo

And there is still much adventure ahead!

Besides:

"Everyone is the age of their heart."

  Guatemalan Proverb

And

"We turn not older with years,

but newer every day."

  Emily Dickinson

 Besides,

denying one's age

merely alienates one

from one's self. . . 

Kindly leave a comment:

         How old do you feel today? cloudia