Click on photos to enlarge!"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
Oscar Wilde
"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
The face of comfort.
Every teaching of spirituality is a heroic attempt to share the inexplicable in words.
Traditions and teachings can only point us in the right direction - but unless scripture awakens an answering resonance from within, it will remain only mental.
The mind contorts and con volutes to make itself grand. But wisdom looks on with the quiet pleasure of comprehension. . .
Light, color, bird song are all vibrations. A bed of flowers is a massed choir: harmonies and soloists respirating each in their own voice. . . Stop and listen!
Whales sport off Maui. In neighbor island uplands, fireplaces warm and scent the crispy nights. On the Big Island, lava is flowing into an indignant sea. Typical Hawaii February weather: high clouds, brief showers. . .
What will happen next?
None of us knows.
So keep your eyes half open, like kitty does (above) even as you lay your 20th Century burdens down.
Inventing a better future is fearsome work. So why do we whistle as we stroll through the wreckage?
A L O H A! Cloudia
