Are YOU Blessed?

A      L      O      H      A    !

" Blessed are they who see beautiful things

 in humble places 

where other people see nothing. "

Camille Pissarro

" Blessed are those who give

 without remembering 

and take 

without forgetting. "

Elizabeth Bibesco

" Blessed is the influence

 of one true, loving human soul 

on another. "

George Eliot

" Self-acceptance 

has been a blessed by-product 

of middle age. "

Candice Bergen

 " The person who can bring

 the spirit of laughter

 into a room

 is indeed 

blessed. "

Bennett Cerf

" If I choose to bless another person,

 I will always end up feeling

 more blessed. "

Marianne Williamson

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So what is this thing?

This state of being
 "blessed."

There seems more than luck to it.

So what is it?

How do you know

if YOU are blessed?

Turn around (bear with me)

look back over the past day,

the week, the year,

back over your life.

What have you left

in YOUr wake?


 Accomplishments?

Regret?

Look 
and ask yourself

if you have left

Peace 
behind you.

If you have looked for the best,

instead of for blame,

(or to be right)

If you have de-escalated

rather than letting them 
"have it"

If you have refrained

from easy superiority,

and from jumping
 to the head of the line.

Then I think you may just

be blessed.

Someone once said:

"Blessed 
are the peace makers.

Someone once

was right.

Thank YOU for visiting here,

May Peace follow YOU

wherever you go.

                   Warmly, cloudia

Friday Paradise

A L O H A !

We Are the One Hundred Percent

A     L     O     H     A   !

click !

Heaven & Nature Sing:
Optics of Atmosphere, Light & Water-Lenses

I can't wait
for the meek to inherit 
this Earth.

Shallow, driven sociopaths

are ruining it

for every one

Nature Neutered

"We must, indeed, all hang together, 

or most assuredly 

we shall all hang separately."

Benjamin Franklin

In the Continental Congress upon signing

the Declaration of Independence,

 1776.

Is there ANYthing

that Americans can agree on

today?

Nature Substitute,  KEEP OUT

"Joni Mitchell said this  about writing the song BIG YELLOW TAXI  to journalist Alan McDougall in the early 1970s: ' I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi'  on my first trip to Hawaii.  I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning,  I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance.  Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot  as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart...  this blight on paradise.  That's when I sat down and wrote the song '  " courtesy WIKIPEDIA  here

Crown of Creation

" Being made in the image of God,

 man was 

the crown of creation. "

Walter Lang

Genesis 1:26-2:3

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LIN - Sanity

A    L    O    H    A   !

“I'm youth,  I'm joy,
I'm a little bird
that has broken out
 of the egg.”


 James Matthew Barrie

" Life is one big road
 with lots of signs. 

So when you riding through the ruts, 

don't complicate your mind. 

Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.

 Don't bury your thoughts,

 put your vision to reality. 

Wake Up and Live! "


Bob Marley

Kiss the Shadow




" Poetry is an echo,
 asking a shadow
 to dance. "

Carl Sandburg

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Sounds like the plot

of a bad movie:

In an arena

of pampered millionaires,

spoiled "student athletes"

who never earn a degree,

 of

"Kings" "Legends" and

"Franchise Players"

consider THIS fellow:

An Asian,
the child of immigrants

in a sport with 

BUT ONE

(retired) Asian hero,

He played his college ball

at Harvard

(NOT a recruiting ground

for professional athletes).

Jeremy recently slept 

on his graduate-student
brother's 

sofa.

He was cut

from two NBA teams.

Then the New York Knicks

came calling.

Result:

L I N S A N I T Y !

Jeremy Lin is the first American-born player

 of Taiwanese or Chinese descent

 to play in the NBA.

He has the 

MOST POINTS

in his first five games

of ANY PLAYER

in NBA

HISTORY!

 136 points

 in his first five

career starts.

The ancient Greeks,

when the weren't busy

inventing democracy &

Philosophy,

appreciated sport.

Excellence of the Mind,

of the Spirit,

of the Body

was their paramount value.

They had a word for it:

Arete`excellence.

Perhaps you are not

"into" sport.

But magic like this

transcends category.

It is uplifting to see.

(You may see Lin perform below)

Thank YOU for visiting,

                        Fondly, cloudia