Showing posts with label Aloha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aloha. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

TO YOU SWEETHEART, ALOHA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y6F8M1GJRg
     Click the above link for a recording of an emotional "Adieu."
It is quite a feeling to be on "YouTube" memorializing a very emotional moment.  Our Isabel, the "Voice from the Kitchen" saying a very poetic "Good Bye" to our colleagues who had assembled for the First International Gathering of La Salette Laity in France last September 1 - 10.  The smile is missing because of the deep emotion that was filling her heart and soul.  You read some of my reflections concerning the type of people who attended this Gathering in yesterday's post.  Today, we received this recording from the colleague who sat next to me during the entire proceedings.  This is a still photo of her during a performance a week earlier.
The sound is not too clear, so here are the lyrics for your pleasure:

To you, sweetheart, Aloha,
Aloha, from the bottom of my heart,
Keep the smile on your lips,
Brush the tear from your eye,
One more Aloha, then it's time for goodbye,
To you, sweetheart, Aloha 
In dreams I'll be with you, dear, tonight,
and I'll pray for that day 
When we two will meet again,
Until then, sweetheart, Aloha


Great thanks to our colleague and friend, Pierre Zaessinger

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

OFF-THE-WALL THOUGHTS, CONTINUED

Do you know why I have this picture here today?  Hmmm, I didn't think so.  Actually, it is not really symbolic of an off-the-wall thought, I don't think.  Off-the-wall thoughts are random, spontaneously generated electro chemical phenomena that invade our private mental space with no introduction, and just simply refuse to go away.  They're like ear-worms, only more insidious.  I say that because their source remains a mystery no matter how much you try to fathom what happened.  So, I chose this picture just because it is bright and doesn't seem to have much logic, if any to it.  This particular season is rife and ripe for all kinds of spontaneous memory activity for me.  It is about this time that I get closer to going to Massachusetts and that always brings me closer to all kinds of crazy mental gyrations.  But not always having to do with the East Coast.  The other day, for instance, I was thinking about Cape Cod when out of the blue ( I think ) came this picture of a lady who was a passenger of mine when I was driving the van for the medical transportation company.  It happened so fast that I immediately thought that she had died and was telling me goodbye.  I decided to check it out.  Sure enough, I was spot on.  Believe it or not, this happens to me often.  I think of people at the oddest times.  Rarely at night.  I don't have time for thinking at night.  That's the time I save for sleeping.  So don't you try invading my grey matter after such and such an hour, sweetie pie!  It's not always the dead ones who knock on my door.  Lots of you live people do it to.  I never have a way of knowing whether it's a good thing or a bad one.  So, out of fear of the truth, I just go take a cold shower and hope that you'll leave me alone.
For me, it's a telepathic phenomenon.  I believe in that kind of communication.  I believe that we are all connected spiritually and that we have the duty to care for one another by keeping ourselves at peace with ourselves so that we can be at peace with the human community.  It is also for me a deep religious conviction that we have to keep ourselves as righteous as possible for the good of one another.  This makes so much sense to me religiously, that I have come to understand the value of such a conviction for everyone, religious or not.  One of the big questions I have is this: "I am so friendly to the free spirits all around the place, why do I have to stare at my computer screen for so long before I can even decide to touch the keys?  Can't they pitch in and help me out?  Luckily I don't have that problem very often.  Besides, ya know what?  The idea for tomorrow has just now flitted across my mind.  It's a story that will surprise most of you, I think.  It has to do with a computer problem that is so mysterious that I have to talk about it.  You'll see, it's an interesting one.
So until then, "Sweetheart, Aloha, from the bottom of my heart."