Friday, June 12, 2026

Re - Minded

    A  L  O  H  A 
From

Honolulu

Happiness is
like a field
you can harvest
every season.
Luo Proverb



When we seek
to discover the
best in others,
we somehow
bring out the
best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward




I'm happy to be reminded
 that an ordinary day 
full of nothing but
 nothingness 
can make you feel like
you've won the lottery.
                      Susan Orlean


The broad-minded see
the truth in
different religions;
the narrow-minded see
only the differences
Chinese Proverb



The important thing
in communication
is to hear
what is not
being said.
Peter Drucker

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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Thursday, June 11, 2026

Yours To Give

 
   A  L  O  H  A 

From

Honolulu

Live your life

while you have it.

Life is a splendid gift.

There is nothing

small in it.

Florence Nightingale





Asystasia gangetica 
commonly known as
Chinese violet, coromandel
or creeping foxglove.









Photography is 
a love affair 
with life.
  Burk Uzzle






A very little key will
open a very heavy door.
Charles Dickens




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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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Nothing you have
is yours to keep.
But everything you have
is yours to give. 
  John Sarris



Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Calm And Quiet


  A  L  O  H  A 

From

Honolulu

Savor calm
And quiet grace,
Forget the stormy
Tempest's chase.

For in sweet stillness
Peace is found,
Here together 
On sacred ground.

Cloudia Charters



A happy family is but
an earlier heaven.
Sir John Bowring
In an 1837 hymn



The Fly

God in his wisdom
made the fly
And then forgot
to tell us why.
Ogden Nash

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. George MacDonald


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Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Neon At Dusk


     A  L  O  H  A 

From
Honolulu

It's important to
surround yourself
with good people,
interesting people,
young people, young ideas.
Go places, learn new stuff.
Look at the world with wonder -
don't be tired about it.
Angela Bassett



The sign hums softly
above the fading street,
a happy electric heart
that ever so brightly beats.

And all at once
evening is not empty
but lit with longing,
and seemingly friendly.

Cloudia Charters


The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. Carlos Santana ᬔᬔᬔᬔᬔᬔᬔᬔᬔ
Love You, Cloudia & Pixie




Here’s to the vulture,
unloved at first view—
still worthy of friendship,
and maybe love too.

Wind holds their secrets,
sun warms their wings,
they cherish all manner
of unlovely things.


But if you should see them
in twilight above,
remember: 
even vultures
are worthy of love.
Pixie


Monday, June 8, 2026

Like A Small Cloud Drifting


    A  L  O  H  A 

From

Honolulu

Be an opener of doors

Ralph Waldo Emerson




In the light of calm and

steady self-awareness,

 inner energies wake up 

and work miracles...

Nisargadatta Maharaj



I am watching you

just to keep you company with my quiet eyes.

When you sigh,

I feel it in my whiskers.

I follow the sunlight of you

like a small cloud,

drifting room to room.


I blink slowly—
a tiny prayer.
This is where love lives.

This is how we purr
the world into balance.
    Pixie


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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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Advice from milk:
Stay cool,
don’t curdle
under pressure.




Sunday, June 7, 2026

Truly


   A  L  O  H  A 

From

Honolulu


Truly appreciate life, 
and you'll find that 
you have more of it.
               Ralph Marston



Ulu (Breadfruit) (Artocarpus altilis), Tree of the mulberry family (Moraceae). It's large fruits are a staple food of the South Pacific and other tropical areas. Breadfruit contains considerable amounts of starch and is seldom eaten raw. It may be roasted, baked, boiled, fried, or dried and ground into flour.

Ulu is such an iconic motif!
The leaves and breadfruit itself
are a historic and popular
Hawaiian Quilt Pattern.



The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament Isabella Bird "Fascinating Woman Explorer"


All Things
Somehow Work Out
For Those That Love.
Pixie

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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