Skies Arise

A L O H A !

Rainbow Under My Window

" Be thou the rainbow 

in the storms of life. "

                  Byron

" You must continue 

to gain expertise,

 but avoid thinking 

like an expert. " 

            Denis Waitley

" Be you and 

do your own thing

 and work hard.

 The right people who 

belong in your life 

will come to 

you, and stay. "

                       Wu Tang

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Good Fences
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SkyWatch

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                Fondly, cloudia

3 Signs

A  L  O  H  A !

Hawaii still loves LONGS,

still remembers our

ancient land divisions:

Ahupua`a,

names things in 

Hawaiian Language:

Hale Pawa`a.

Linking to

Signs, Signs

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                             cloudia

Wild Duck Day

A  L  O  H  A !

" Only one thing 

has to change for 

us to know happiness 

in our lives: where 

we focus our attention. "

                                Greg Anderson

“Through this broad street, restless ever, 

ebbs and flows a human tide, 

wave on wave a living river; 

wealth and fashion side by side; 

Toiler, idler, slave and master, 

in the same quick current glide. ”

                         John Greenleaf Whittier

Linking to

Wild Bird Wednesday

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                 Warmly, cloudia

Dog Rides Rainbow

A L O H A !

" Beware 

so long as you live, 

of judging people 

by appearances. "

                              La Fontaine

" The entire ocean

 is affected 

by a pebble. "

                   Blaise Pascal

“ Focus” suggests limitation, 

something else is blurred. 

“Attention” suggests 

the whole picture. "

                   Tom Hiddleston

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             Warmly, cloudia

Happy? Who Cares?

A  L  O  H  A !

We put a lot of emphasis

on feeling good.

"I just want my

children to be happy"

we say.

We avoid bad feeling,

chase good feelings,

but feelings come and go

like weather any way.

We can create conditions

for happiness, and avoid

what brings us down,

but 99.99% of humans are

NOT happy all the time.

I was thinking:

"so what?"

Worrying about happiness

seems like a huge waste

of time, as well as an

internal contradiction.

Perhaps we are happiest

when we are NOT thinking

about it at all!

Gratified sociopaths are happy.

We who care, are often unhappy

about something that is wrong.

And so we try to fix it.

That's some productive

unhappiness!

Maybe our feelings

are not as important

as our choices.

Get them right,

and happy tends

to result.

I choose to be happy;

but not worry too much

when I'm not.

I'm adopting a 

So What attitude.

I hope you feel good today.

But if you are mourning,

I will cry with you.

Supporting a friend

makes me happy.

Such a contradictory life!

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Your Comments

ALWAYS make me

H A P P Y!

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Honolulu Front and Back

A  L  O  H  A !

 Waikiki Beach & Diamond Head.

THAT's Honolulu to most people

 Rainbows, Resorts, Ocean Views

Click Photo to Stand in Street

This little wood frame house,

surrounded by mid [20th] Century

walk-up apartments speaks to me

of a city growing.

19th Century Chinatown.

Modern  towers 'photo bombing'

the shot

From the Japanese plantation carpenters

who built so many wood frame, local

style shacks, houses, temples,

& Hawaiian Sampan fishing boats. . . 

. . . To the high rises going

up today, Honolulu

is a dynamic Pacific City.

I join all previous 

residents going back 

centuries in saying:

"You should have been

here 30 years ago;

It was so different,

so beautiful then!"

Thanks for Visiting!

                Warmly, cloudia

Shadow Emergent

A  L  O  H  A !

Shadow 0val

" Conceit is God's gift 

to little men. "

                Harry S Truman 

Linking to

Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Diagram

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                Warmly, cloudia