Wild Oahu Bird Wednesday

A  L  O  H  A !

Tropicbird

" To stand at the edge of the sea,

 to sense the ebb and flow 

of the tides, 

to feel 

the breath of a mist 

moving over a great salt marsh, 

Booby

" - to watch the flight of shore birds 

that have swept up

 and down the surf lines 

 for untold thousands of year, 

Red Crested Cardinal

" -is to have knowledge

 of things that are 

as nearly eternal 

as any earthly life can be.

                                                     Rachel Carson

Thanks to Carroll Cox for the Sea Bird Photos

Link

([])

Linking to

Wild Bird Wednesday

Here

Thanks!

           Warmly, cloudia

I Believe

A  L  O  H  A !

" The most common way

people give up their power

is by thinking

they don't have any. "

                       Alice Walker

"The most exhausting 

thing you can be

is inauthentic. "

             Anne Morrow Lindbergh

" Beware of false knowledge;

it is more dangerous

than ignorance. "

                 George Bernard Shaw

" There is no cosmetic

 for beauty like 

happiness. "

               Lady Marguerite Blessington

Indian Mynas

More Mynas 

" Every moment is 

a golden one for 

the person who has 

the vision to 

recognize it as 

such. "

                                   Henry Miller

" I believe in being

STRONG

when everything 

seems

to be going 

wrong"

                    Audrey Hepburn

([/])

Thank You!

                         cloudia

Sunset Soliloquy

  A  L  O  H  A  !       

Aloha means 

a LOT more

 than "Hello" "Goodbye"

It is "Hello with Love" 

and also 

"Goodbye with Love."

A Hawaiian Namaste. 

Let us say proper 

Aloha Farewell 

to a Day- 

"...And great cloud-continents 

of sunset-seas.  "

Thomas Bailey Aldrich,

 "Miracles"

Dragon Follows the Sun

 'If the sky 
 could dream, 
 it would dream 
 of dragons.' 
              Ilona Andrews 

Dragon Pause Portrait

Play - DO!

" Rise up nimbly 
and go on your 
strange journey 
to the ocean of 
meanings.... 
Leave and 
don't look away 
from the sun 
as you go, 
in whose 
light you're 
sometimes crescent, 
sometimes full. "
                    Rumi

" Come sit with me!
 Let us drink
 the holy wine 
of happiness. "
                          Rumi

" Tonight 
the moon kisses 
the stars." 
                       Rumi

Good Night, my Dears!
                  Fondly, cloudia

Hawaiian Chief

A L O H A !

Honolulu's Kakaako Neighborhood

" There's no point

 in being grown up 

if you can't be

 childish sometimes. " 

                          Dr. Who

([])

See other Murals

Here

                 Ciao! cloudia

Shadow Play is Serious Work

A  L  O  H  A !

 "There are 

infinite shadings 

of light and shadows 

and colors... 

it's an extraordinarily 

subtle language. 

Figuring out how to 

speak that language 

is a lifetime job."

                            Conrad Hall

" Find beauty not only 

in the thing itself 

but in the pattern 

of the shadows, 

the light and dark 

which that thing 

provides. "

                               Junichiro Tanizaki

"The hardest thing

to learn in life

 is which bridge

 to cross 

and which 

to burn."

        David Russell

({})

Your Visit

is what makes this 

F U N!

Leave a comment;

                            Warmly, cloudia

My Naughty Dreams of Girlhood

A  L  O  H  A !

Club Hubba Hubba, Hotel St. Honolulu

When I was little,
riding in the back,
we often passed
 a neon sign
of a woman lounging in
a giant champagne glass.
 
When I was VERY
little, her leg
even kicked
through the magic
of neon.

My secret was
that I wanted to
grow up to BE
that woman!

You can read about
my adventures
in "Show Business"
in my semi-autobiographical
novel
"Aloha Where You Like Go?
Driving from Survival to
Satisfaction in a
Honolulu Taxi"

The book cover
at the top right corner
of this blog, is a link
to the Kindle Ebook version!
Read it on the beach.
Warmly, Your Painted Lady -
                      cloudia

How To Beat The Devil

A  L  O  H  A !

Click To Enlarge Usual Suspects

“Each person you meet

is an aspect of yourself,

clamoring for love.” 

                                    Eric Micha'el Leventhal

"True patriotism 

hates injustice 

in its own land 

more 

than anywhere else."

                                            Clarence Darrow

“The emotion

 that can 

break your heart

 is sometimes

 the very one 

that heals it...” 

                                     Nicholas Sparks

( [} )

The adversarial force

challenging our 

Better Nature

operates 

in mysterious ways.

Most evil in this world

is done by those

who believe they are 

Doing Right.

One way that evil

tricks us

is by using our 

Better Instincts

to it's own bad ends.

One example

is becoming SO

"sympathetic" to the 

pain of others,

that we become

Righteously Angry

 on their behalf.

This creates:

More Anger,

More Judgement,

Less Insight.

Look at your own 

facial expression.

Listen honestly

to your own words.

What energy

are YOU putting

into the world?

Righteous Anger

is an oxymoron

like jumbo shrimp.

Don't be a big 

moron shrimp!

                   Fondly, cloudia