Trees and Rainbow Critters

A L O H A !

" When I am silent,

 I fall into one place

 where everything

 is music." 

                      Rumi

" When the first baby laughed 

for the first time, 

its laugh broke 

into a thousand pieces,

 and they all went 

skipping about, 

and that was

 the beginning 

of fairies.” 

                                J.M. Barrie, 

                                                 Peter Pan

Linking to -

Camera Critters

HERE

Saturday's Critters

HERE


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The ancients lived
in an animate world.

So do we,
if we are 
alive enough,
free enough,
to laugh caution
to the winds.

May Your Spirit
S O A R!
                      Fondly, cloudia

What I'm Really Saying

A L O H A !
 

 However long the night

The dawn will break   

                       African Proverb 

" The colors of the rainbow 

so pretty in the sky

And also on the faces 

of people passing by

I see friends shaking hands 

saying 'How do you do?'

They're really saying 

I, 

I love you "

Songwriters

ARLEN, HAROLD / HARBURG, E /

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Lyrics © EMI Music 

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"My work is not accidental 

and not planned. "
                    Hans Hofmann 

I like the man seen 

through the rip in the fence!

When eating vegetables, 

remember the one 

who planted them.

                    Chinese Proverb

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I even invented

a term for it:

"Grooming Language."

When primates are

together, they

groom one another.

Simple enough.

But when the job

is done,

they carry on

touching, stroking,

attending.

This "Grooming Behavior"

strengthens social bonds

and health.

I have not 

combed out my 

neighbors-

BUT

The routine things

we say,

that have no

practical utility

are Grooming Language.

No one needs

to say it's a cold

[or hot] day"

And few really

CARE about 

"How is your day going"?

In New York

it is quick:

"How you doin?"

And the answer

is: "Good."

Just as quick,

but effective.

"God be with you"

['Good bye']

"Aloha"

O Genki Desu Ka?

[How is your health?]

May seem routine,

even pointless sometimes.

As pointless as breathing

over and OVER again!

So How's it goin'?

What I'm really saying?

I Love You,

Friend!

Thanks for visiting,

                                                          cloudia

Oahu Winter Skies

A  L  O  H  A !

"How we spend 

our days is 

of course 

how we spend

 our lives."  

                       Annie Dillard

" Rather than love, 

than money, than fame, 

give me truth. "

                      Thoreau

"If you don't think 

every day is a good day, 

just try missing one."  

                       Cavett Robert 

Linking to SkyWatch

Here

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Thank You!

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Fence Faces

A  L  O  H  A !

" The best way 

to destroy an enemy

 is to make him 

a friend. "

               Abraham Lincoln 

"Better to see the face 

than to hear the name." 
                                   Zen Proverb

" Spend some time 

alone 

every day. "

                          Dalai Lama

Fences! 

Must find more FENCES!

Because -

every Thursday

We link to Tex's

Good Fences

Here


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Thank You
for jumping the fence!
                        Warmly, cloudia

There’s the Wisdom

A  L  O  H  A !

"It’s what you don’t say.

 There’s the wisdom. -

- Life is 

what you don’t say. "

                                 Art Garfunkle

Incognito

A  L  O  H  A !

“If we know 

exactly where we're going, 

exactly how to get there, 

and exactly what 

we'll see along the way, 

we won't learn anything. ” 

                                          M. Scott Peck

 "The observer 

is a prince 

enjoying his incognito 

wherever he goes.” 

                         Charles Baudelaire 

" I could be 

whatever I wanted

 to be

 if I trusted 

that music, that song, 

that vibration of God 

that was inside 

of ME. "

                       Shirley MacLaine

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Thank You!

                 Warmly, cloudia

Java Finch

A L O H A !

Jaunty Java Finch

“Every character

 has to be 

given a moment.” 

                    Robert Redford

Linking to Wild Bird Wednesday

Here

Thank You!

                    Warmly, cloudia