New Day Sights

A L O H A!

"Don't worry about what the world needs.

Ask what makes you come alive,
 and go do it.

Because what the world needs 

are people who have come alive."

Howard Thurman

". . . the more tolerant light 

of early morning and dusk,

the hours of promise

and regret."

Richard Brody

"Kindness is the language

which the deaf can hear

and the blind can see."

 Mark Twain

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There is a difference

between:

Rushing through,

passing through,

and pausing.

'Rushing through'
shows some sights,


'passing through'
reveals even more


but 


'pausing'
makes us part of the scene,

rewarding
& revealing
what 
we never noticed
before.


Even here
on this small island
every day
beings new sights.

Thank YOU for stopping by.
Comment?

We're BACK!

Aloha Again, Friend!

Blogger is BACK - And So Are WE :-)

Sunny Days have returned to Waikiki. . .

We are simply intoxicated by the weather of paradise. . . 

Thousands of psychiatrists are in town

for their big annual meeting. . .

But that's OK;

We're hospitable to all kinds of strange visitors. . . . .

The new produce guy at the store, for example. . . . .

There's just something DIFFERENT about him. . . . 

"The memory of things gone

is important to a jazz musician.

Things like old folks singing in the moonlight
in the back yard on a hot night

or something said long ago.”

Louis Armstrong

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Wasn't that SOMETHING?!

"Blogger Unavailable"

Wow, Took my brain a few minutes to wrap around

THAT!

The treadmill stopped.

Our friends were suddenly unavailable!

How is the flooding affecting Cajun Country?

I missed my daily New York pictures!

Fasting is good.

It makes us think about our routines

and appreciate

what we take for granted.

I missed you!

Tanned, rested & ready. . . . 

I'm

B A C K!

         Please say 'hello' in comments-  warmly, cloudia

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A  L  O  H  A !

"Happiness is not the absence of problems

but the ability to deal with them."

Montesquieu

"The unconscious will give you ideas

and it wants you to act on them.

The more courage you have when you act,

the more ideas it will give you."

Phil Stutz

"Follow your bliss
 and the universe will open doors
 for you where there were only walls."

 Joseph Campbell

"What a wee little part of a person's life 

are his acts and his words!
 His real life is led in his head,

and is known to none but himself."

Mark Twain

 

"He who knows best 

knows how little he knows."

Thomas Jefferson

“To every word of love I heard you whisper,

the raindrops seem to play

a sweet refrain.”

 

The Beatles

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A myriad of bloggers

show and tell

the simple truths 

of our locales,

and the weather

of human souls.

A thousand lights,

MILLIONS!

Keeping the flame alive,

the flame of:

"This is who I am."

And how way YOUR day?

Together, 

you & I.

           Do leave your "hello" in comments cloudia

Waikiki

Aloha!  

    Let's Walk in Waikiki Together. . .

"Make love a stain upon your heart;
Spill your love on others

until they too are stained."

Anonymous Tibetan monk

Shell Ginger

"If you can sit with a rose, or any other blossom,

and 'be' with it's quiet presence,

you will smell the scent

of the spirit world

because you & I are one;

We've grown in this same space."

Oprah winfrey

"Kindness sets the heart free."

“This is my simple religion. 

There is no need for temples;
 no need for complicated philosophy.
 Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
 the philosophy is kindness.” 

Dalai Lama

Today I went out walking between the raindrops.

Gentle mist acted like rain - but couldn't keep up the impersonation.

Patches of blue sky appeared.

Sunshine drew moisture from the grass.

Heaven & nature sing. 

Locals and visitors drink it all in.

Just another day-

in Waikiki.

Thanks for sharing it with me! Please leave a comment, cloudia

Eleven Year Old Warrior

fMâlô e lelei  -

That's Tongan for 'Aloha'

Courtesy:  FL Morris / fmorris@staradvertiser.com

Why?

What are YOUR eleven-year-olds doing?

"When 3-year old Hale Motuapuaka told his parents, 

“I want to be a fire man,”

they knew he wanted to play with fire,

not put it out.

Turning 11 a couple of weeks ago,

Hale is the youngest professional fireknife dancer in Hawaii, maybe in the world, performing two nights a week for Malu Productions at the Hale Koa Hotel. He says he is “really ready to light it up” to win at next weekend’s World Fireknife Championship at the Polynesian Cultural Center."  Mahalo to Honolulu Pulse

                     So, what do YOU think?   cloudia

Opposite Day!

ALOHA means 'Goodbye'

As Well as 'Hello'

 

"Solitary trees,

if they grow at all, 

grow strong."

Winston Churchill

"I can see you are flawed.

You have not hidden it.
 That is your greatest gift to me."

Alice Walker

"Self development

is a higher duty

than self sacrifice."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"They say,

we're too old to play hide and seek...

but, if I were given a chance, 

I'd give anything just to hear someone say, 

'I found you!' "

 iiAngelie

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Our brains are marvelous.

Just like athletes know of the body,

the brain get's used to doing things a certain way

and conserves energy by doing it just that way.

Therefore, we can stimulate our brain

by doing things differently;

Brush your teeth with the "wrong" hand

and your brain will wake up and forge

new connections.

I work on a laptop

and my right elbo is complaining

about the repetitive use I must make

of the touch-pad & scroll buttons (up! & down!).

Well I've gone and gotten myself

a wireless mouse!

Now I'm clicking with the left hand,

plus I have a cool 'scrolling wheel.'

Living completely within our comfort zone

only comforts our way to decline.

Do simple things in a different way.

Stand on one foot.

Drive someplace a different way.

You can thank me later!

                     What do you say?  warmly, cloudia

 

What is a "GO Bag?"

Aloha, Dear Friend!

A Rabbit

“The other day when I was walking through the woods,

I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle

making shadows of people on a tree.”

 

 Stephen Wright

There he goes! (Nice tail)

"Humor can get in

under the door

while seriousness

is still fumbling at the handle."

G.K. Chesterton

Did you see that?

"Diseases of the soul are more numerous 

and dangerous

than those of the body."

Cicero

Just another day. . . in Waikiki.  (Glad Y O U stopped by :-)

"Perfect order

is the forerunner

of perfect horror."

Carlos Fuentes

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Three times this year,

a tsunami warning,

my boat taking on water at 3:30 am,

and a TSUNAMI WARNING (!)

We have had to decide what's important.

What do you grab?

Valuables, monetary & sentimental.

Pets. Medications. Papers.

In the case of the tsunami,

you want to take food and simple

"neccessities" that may be in short supply

for some time, if the 'big one' hits.

After what happened in Japan. . .

(and believe me, Hawaii people

are close to the Japanese.

Every day here there is a fundraiser,

or another story

heartrending in it's pain

of what our friends and family

are enduring there.

Hawaii people have contributed

upwards of 3 million USDollars!

And many of us are over there helping.)

. . .So after a disaster like that,

or the flooding in the continental US,

one is grateful for dear normalcy

even if this is the normalcy:

  "normal."

What is your security blanket?

Your MUST HAVE?

Do you have a "Go Bag" with simple necessities

ready to grab and go?

Believe me, it's better to think before an emergency hits.

Personally, much less is now "necessary."

What do I actually need to be happy?

Our blogs are preserved "on the cloud"

Personal information and pictures

can all be stored there too,

courtesy of Google, Mozy and others.

I'm realizing that, beyond simple health, 

food, shelter, loved ones,

there is little  that is irreplaceable;

After all,

we shall lose "everything" eventually anyway.

You can't take it with you, right?

For me, this means that more of my security

comes from within,

from skills, and from hard won self-confidence too.

My "locus of control" has moved more inside myself

than outside.  That's a good feeling.

My husband marvels that I can give a REIKI treatment

with no equipment, just my hands.

I can provide comfort, pain relief and connection.

As long as I have a heart to think of those around me

I will not sink into despair.

Together we as a whole world are re-evaluating:

"What is necessary? What is truly desirable?"

I think we are finding exciting new answers

to those questions;

Answers that are actually quite old.

"Love one another." "Do unto others."

"True wealth is not material." 

I'm actually quite hopeful, this Arab Spring.

A million minds changed, 

and a thousand-year Berlin Wall fell.

What walls of separation will fall next? 

What is the world changing it's mind about?

Y O U

blogger, and blog reader,

are part of it!

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