Honolulu Cats

A L O H A !

" One of the greatest diseases

 is to be nobody to anybody. " 

Mother Teresa 

Honolulu has many communities of feral cats.

  Dedicated volunteers, like this lady,

 feed and arrange for neutering & healthcare for the little bums.

"Words are a pretext.

 It is the inner bond

 that draws one person to another,

 not words. "

Rumi

This fellow seems to enjoy the spoiling - just look at that face!

" The greatest healing therapy

 is friendship and love. "

Hubert H. Humphrey 

Most visitors are looking up, at sights like the top picture.

 But if you look down, you may see evidence of CAT.

And, because it is political season here in the US:

" To stimulate wildly weak

 and untrained minds

 is to play with mighty fires. "

W. E. B. Du Bois 

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May your day

go your way!

       Warmly, cloudia

Let Us Look @ Lattice

ALOHA !

" It's what you learn 

after you know it all

 that counts. "

John Wooden 

" The ordinary man casts a shadow. . . 

 The man of genius casts light. "

George Steiner 

" The true work of art

 is but a shadow

 of the divine perfection. "

Michelangelo 

" To light a candle

 is to cast a shadow. "

Ursula K. Le Guin 

" Expediency

 is the mere shadow 

of right and truth;

 it is the beginning of disorder. "

Lao Tzu 

 " Where love rules,

 there is no will to power;

 and where power predominates, 

there love is lacking. 

The one is the shadow of the other. "

 

Carl Jung 

      Thank you for stopping by today! Warmly, cloudia

Silence Power

A L O H A !

" Write your Sad times in Sand,

Write your Good times in Stone. "

  George Bernard Shaw

" If you wouldn't write it 
and sign it, 
don't say it. "

Earl Wilson

" I have often regretted my speech,

but never my silence. "

- Publilius Syrus

" Don't talk - keep it in your heart.  "
 Duke Kahanamoku 

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Silence

has enormous power.

The "cold shoulder"

is merely

the lowest form of it.

Let your silence

be a welcoming space,

instead of

a 

wall.

      warmly, cloudia

Riots Spark Hope

ALOHA !

"Riots are the voice of the unheard."

Martin Luther King

"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, 

the drama of human life would be destroyed."

Winston Churchill

"When Congress makes a joke,

it's a law,

and when they make a law,

it's a joke." 

Will Rogers




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During political campaigns,

those running for office

know what we want to hear.

When they achieve office,

they suddenly get disconnected 

from us, 

the people.

I am NOT in favor of violence. 

But when the geniuses in charge of our system

undo hard won rights

and wealth of the people,

in response to THEIR OWN mistakes

it does my heart GOOD

to see the people rise up.

As an American, 
I am a child of revolution,

and I believe with all my heart

in government, OF the People,

By the People,

and For the People.

This is what I want

for all the people

of our world

too.

Yesterday,

the people of our State of Wisconsin

 held recall elections

to unseat legislators

who stole their public workers'

right of collective bargaining

with the stroke of a pen.

We have been mis-lead

and misdirected for too long

as malefactors of great wealth

have stolen the common wealth of this

and other nations

from the People

to whom they rightfully belong.

By Martin Fletcher, NBC News correspondent

LONDON -- As political and social protests grip the Middle East, are growing in Europe and a riot exploded in north London this weekend, here's a sad truth, expressed by a Londoner when asked by a television reporter: Is rioting the correct way to express your discontent?

"Yes," said the young man. "You wouldn't be talking to me now if we didn't riot, would you?"

The TV reporter from Britain's ITV had no response. 

So the young man pressed his advantage.

"Two months ago we marched to Scotland Yard,  more than 2,000 of us, all blacks, and it was peaceful and calm and you know what? Not a word in the press. Last night a bit of rioting and looting and look around you."

Eavesdropping from among the onlookers, I looked around. A dozen TV crews and newspaper reporters interviewing the young men everywhere.

       Thank YOU for visiting!  cloudia

Below are more inspiring quotes:

" A government for the people

must depend for its success

on the intelligence, the morality, the justice,

and the interest 

of the people themselves.  "

Grover Cleveland, 

US President

“Budgets are moral documents.”

Tavis Smiley

" Government of the people,

by the people, for the people, 

shall not perish from the Earth.  "

Abraham Lincoln

" Great artists suffer for the people.  "
Marvin Gaye

" I choose bold. I choose action.

I choose what's right for the people. 

I choose to make a difference.  "

Bill Richardson