Crepuscular Night Ramble 夏威夷檀香山日晚

A L O H A 

" There is only one day left,

always starting over:

it is given to us at dawn

and taken away from us 

at dusk.  "

                                        Jean-Paul Sartre

 “Older people make more use 

of higher-order reasoning schemes
 that emphasize the need for

multiple perspectives,
allow for compromise,
and recognize the limits

of knowledge.” 

  Richard E. Nisbett, &  Igor Grossmannon
cognitive psychologists, 

University of Michigan

" Everything that we see

is a shadow cast

by that

which we 

do not 

see. "

Martin Luther King Jr

“Whom 

but a dusk misfeatured messenger, 

No other than the angel

of this life,

Whose care is lest men see 

too much

at once.”

 

 Robert Browning

         
     

"It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz." - Art Blakey

“这需要一个智能的耳朵听爵士乐。” - 艺术Blakey

 "One of the things I like

about jazz, 

kid,

is I don't know 

what's going to happen next.
 Do you?" 

Bix Beiderbecke
 

" Jazz washes away

the dust 

of every day life. "

    Art Blakey

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I love blogging

like a 

 Moving Finger:

" The Moving Finger writes;

 and, having writ,
 Moves on:

 nor all your Piety

 nor Wit
 Shall lure it back 

to cancel half a Line,
 Nor all your Tears 

wash out a Word of it. "

 Omar Khayyam    

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Walking is where my ideas come from; Snapping pictures I see, bubbling up ideas to sharewith YOU.
Today, I lost the little caseI keep my camera in. It dawned on me:
"This is a part of life,small problems are part of life, and therefore: Quite WONDERFUL !

None of us has a contractguaranteeing usanother day,anotherbreath.So why waste time,and hamperJoyby crying overspilled camera cases?

What makes blogging so great?

Y  O  U !

Thanks for being my friend.

Warmly, cloudia 

My fave Cab Calloway
said what I feel
about this blog party
of ours 
pretty well:

 "My audience was my life. 
What I did
and how I did it, 
was all for my audience." 

Cab Calloway

Leafing Around

A    L    O    H    A  !

Leaves, clouds & light 

fill the sky

Some Leaves Are 

small

But even so,

they have a big presence 

when you REALLY look

at them

Some are really big - 

bigger than THIS one

even

These guys 

INVENTED

the "Still Life"

These "Lungs of the World"

are ALL Heart

I think that they look best 

when they hang together

Don't YOU agree?  

Thanks for drifting by!

Don't go

without LEAFING us a comment! 

                        Warmly, cloudia

Stupid Sphynx

A   L   O  H   A  !

Kindly CLICK on these photos that long to please You

 " Beauty is power;

A smile

is it's sword. "

Charles Reade

  

" One may smile,

and smile, 

and be a villain."

William Shakespeare
Hamlet

" Beauty is a manifestation of

secret natural laws,
 which otherwise

would have been hidden from us
 forever. "

 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

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Four legs in the morning? 
Three in afternoon?

Please!

We arise

like balloons,

excitedly at first.
Such hurry to leave
the Spring grass
behind.

 Middle heights buffet

with gusts

amid reaching, pointed

branches.

But still we rise.
Higher still
we see the whole country

until

the surface

becomes a distant land,

a place of

memories.





To and fro
into and out
of clouds

Still we expand
brittle in new cold
we leak our buoyancy
till

sooner

or later

  breath bursts
from it's rubber cocoon

  to revel anew

  in sky dance

falling

rising. . .

. . . goodbye.

Thank You for looking in

Your visit, Your comment

are most appreciated

                     Warmly, cloudia

Pause Muse

A L O H A !

“ I am not absentminded. 

It is the presence of mind

that makes me unaware 

of everything else. ”

 G.K. Chesterton

“ The present moment is filled 

with joy and happiness. 

If you are attentive,

you will see it. ”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“ Fate is shaped half by expectation,

half by inattention. ”
  

Amy Tan

What was I saying?

Just another day - O !

Thank YOU for being here. 

Or were you? 

Comments like 'yes' or 'hello' 

cheerfully accepted

                                                                             by cloudia

Reality Forecast 现实的预测

A   L   O   H   A !

click-a-da-pic-a

All of us could take a lesson

from the weather.
 It pays no attention

to criticism.

我们都可以采取一课

从天气。
 不理

批评。

 In the 60's

people took LSD 

to visit the realities

that underlie the

"normal."

     Now reality seems TOO changeable

  so people take Prozac

to make it feel normal.

在60年代

人们注意到迷幻药

访问的现实

背后

“正常”。

     现在的现实似乎过于多变

  所以人们采取百忧解

，使其感觉正常。

Still, 

somebody's got to clean up . . .

尽管如此，
总得有人的清理。 。 。

Thanks for looking in

 感谢您看

How does YOUr world look today?

Tell us in Comments-

感谢您看

                            Warmly, cloudia

Excellent News

A L O H A !

click on this shot!

The local "Coconut Wireless" is abuzz

with the news that developer Peter Savio

has expressed a firm interest

in helping the retiree's living in Koloa Camp 

on Kauai to remain in, and to own,

their small "plantation homes."  

All depends on the willingness of Grove Farm

to do the right thing.  

Stay tuned!

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Things seem challenging and dark,

but there are beams of dawn too! 

Let's preserve our own light

till the sun rises.

TOGETHER

we

WILL.

                   Warmly, cloudia

Baby Brain 宝宝脑部

A L O H A !

click on the photos

"What we once enjoyed

and deeply loved

we can never lose,

for all that we love deeply

becomes part of us. "

Helen Keller

“我们曾经享有和深爱着我们永远不会失去对所有我们的爱，深深成为我们的一部分。”海伦凯勒

" Expressing anger

is a public form

of littering. "

Williard Gaylin

“表达愤怒

是一个公共的形式

乱抛垃圾。 “

Do click on this one

" The hidden harmony 

is better than the obvious.  "

Pablo Picasso 

隐藏的和谐

较明显要好。

"Happiness will never come 

to those who fail 

to appreciate 

what they already have." 

Anonymous

                                 幸福会不会来
考不上的人
欣赏
他们已经什么。

                       

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Brain imaging shows 

that infants are bursting

with mental activity.

Everything is new,

absorbing,

and exciting 

to them.

Brain imaging shows

MUCH LESS

activity

in the brains of

adults.

For babies,

every day is love in Paris,

for most adults

same old

same old.

Maybe being called

a big baby

is a complement!

Thanks very much for visiting

Your comments make my day-

                         Warmly, cloudia