Waikiki New Year Wishes

A  L  O  H  A !

Another new day comes to Honolulu

"New Year's Day is 

every one's birthday."

       Charles Lamb

The Beach Is Waiting, Contemplating. . . 

What Will YOU

Write in the Fresh Sand?

What footprints

will you leave?

The Regulars - Joined By A Few Visitors

Time For A Morning Paddle With Your Crew

"What the New Year brings to you 

will depend a great deal on 

what you bring to the New Year."

           Vern McLellan

"For a new year to bring you

 something new, make a move, 

like a butterfly tearing 

its cocoon! Make a move!"

          Mehmet Murat ildan

𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐂𐐝

Thank YOU

Dear Friend!

          Fondly, cloudia

Wish For You

A  L  O  H  A !

Your Best Year Yet-

- That is My Wish for YOU!

" A cat's eyes are windows 

enabling us to see

 into another world. "

                     Irish Legend

Linking to
City Daily Photo
Photo of the Year

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janus *

This is my blog.

I make it.

And yet, I am the 

one receiving gifts

through it every day.

Your visit is the gift

that starts my day,

or keeps me going

in afternoon, or

makes me smile

before bed time.

Now I understand

how time and season

move across the face

of our world.

Yet, it is always 

N O W

all the time everywhere.

You taught me that.

Thank YOU

for a wonderful year.

For holding my hand

through a major move.

That You come here,

finding something that

invites you back

means the world to me.

You know who you are.

You are my friend.

Therefore I am

rich.

             Fondly, cloudia

Nature of Gratitude

A  L  O  H  A !

 'Any fool can be happy.

 It takes real heart to

 make beauty out of 

the stuff that 

makes us weep.' 

                     Clive Barker

Linking to

Good Fences

Open Road

“Carpe every damn diem.” 

Justine Musk

"There are years

 that ask questions

 and years that 

answer." 

             Zora Neale Hurston

[''']

In the USA, today is

a holiday dedicated

to gratitude.

The earliest Europeans

on these shores

would likely have

perished if not for

the generosity of the

First Nations 

already here.

The settlers were grateful

to their God, and to

their neighbors.

[one hopes]

Lately, 

I have given thought

to gratitude. One starts

by noticing things to be

grateful for, noticing,

and expressing it.

It became a habit with me,

and a nice one that

certainly improved my life.

But is gratitude a feeling?

My habit of feeling grateful got

somewhat pushed out of the way

in all the folderol of moving.

I was preoccupied with finding

new ways, places clothes, routines.

How could I be grateful for

what was still overwhelming?

So I started to wonder if

it is valid to express gratitude

when you are just not feeling it?

Is that insincere and false,

or is it lovely and powerful?

Saying 'Thank You'

to the universe, to God,

to your subconscious, is a

powerful and insidious thing!

Saying 'Thank You' for arising,

even though I was just

going through the moves

caused chemical reactions

and soon I FELT

grateful again!

Feelings are valuable guides,

but I think we make them

too important. Carry on.

Don't wait till you feel like it.

And who knows?

Maybe soon you 

WILL-

Thank YOU!

              warmly, cloudia

Fresh

A L O H A !

Fresh Start

" Sunshine is delicious,

 rain is refreshing, 

wind braces us up, 

snow is exhilarating;

 there is really no such thing 

as bad weather,

 only different kinds 

of good weather. "

           John Ruskin

So Much Wonder

" We need a renaissance 

of wonder. 

We need to renew, 

in our hearts 

and in our souls, 

the deathless dream, 

the eternal poetry, 

the perennial 

sense that life  

is miracle and magic. "

E. Merrill Root 

Sparkling Promise

“The air was soft,

 the stars so fine, 

the promise of 

every cobbled alley 

so great that 

I thought I 

was in a dream.”

                    Jack Kerouac

)i(

What if . . . 

You woke up 

tomorrow

with only

what you were

grateful for

today?

Thank you Sun,

Thank you breath,

Thank you Pixie-cat

and coffee!

Thank YOU

Friend

for sharing

here with us.

Where it's a 

party every day;

And the regulars

are the nicest people

all over the globe.

Peace OUT!

Wishing YOU

your heart's content.

Hope to see You

Tomorrow.

2 0 1 5

Hard to believe. . .

                                                  cloudia

My Hawaiian Christmas

A  L  O  H  A !        F r i e n d !

“ Christmas doesn't
 come from a store,
 maybe Christmas 
perhaps means 
a little bit more....” 
             Dr. Seuss

Children playing 

with their toys,

visitors dining 

tonight at Roy's

“ Our hearts grow tender 

with childhood memories

 and love of kindred, 

and we are better 

throughout the year 

for having, in spirit, 

become a child 

again 

at Christmas-time. ” 

               Laura Ingalls Wilder

This is sweet, if your have the time.

Really captures the flavor 

of Christmas

in the islands-

            I love you guys - cloudia

Waikiki Good Fence

A  L  O  H  A !   

" Here we know that Christmas

Will be clear and bright

The Sun will shine by day

And all the stars at night.

Mele Kalikimaka

Is Hawaii's way

To say

'Merry Christmas'

To You. "

Click to see carp & humans

"The two most joyous

times of the year are

Christmas morning

and the end of school."

 Alice Cooper

" I will

honor Christmas

in my heart,

 and try to

keep it

all the year. "

 Charles Dickens

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Linking to Good Fences

Wishing YOU

all the Best

of this Season!

                Fondly, cloudia

Most Wonderful

A  L  O  H  A  !

 Want To Take YOU Higher!

" Imagination is 

a very high

 sort of 

seeing."

                  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Click on Photo to Enjoy Smiles

" I think contentment 
the greatest wealth. " 
                   George Shelley

It's beginning to look. . . 

"Still 
round the corner 
there may wait, 
A new road 
or 
a secret gate."

                       J. R. R. Tolkien

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This time of year
we reflect on our
blessings,
of which
(to me)
YOU are one!
                               Fondly, cloudia

Now for a different view on holiday time:

Labor Day Shout

A  L  O  H  A !

  " Love and work 

are the cornerstones 

of our humanness. "

                                Freud

 “No one 

who does good work 

will ever come 

to a bad end, 

either here

 or in the world to come” 

                      The Bhagavad Gita

Na ke kanaka mahi'ai ka imu o nui. 

"The well-filled oven 

belongs to him 

who tills the soil." 

 Work 

brings abundance

                   Hawaiian Proverb

" Do not take advantage 

of a hired worker who is

 poor and needy, 

whether like you,

 or a foreigner 

residing in your town. "

        Deuteronomy 24:14


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You & me-

All of us work

either for pay,
or because
it is who we are.

Today in the USA
we celebrate Workers
in a time
when $Capitol$
is in the VIP cue 
everywhere,
but humans
seeking work
are illegal
if they cross over.

You & I
we value people
and we value
their contributions,
whether
"like us"
or foreigners
in our midst.

Thank YOU
for being
One Of Us
Humans!

I'm proud to share
the work
of healing the world
with You
                 Fondly, cloudia