Saturday, June 13, 2026

Stillness And Departure

  A  L  O  H  A
from 
Honolulu
When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth. Rumi





Always wear a smile. The gift of life will then be yours to give. Rabbi Nachman of Breslov






I must have been listening
to Morning Wild Bird Song
on my phone. Because
when I got in the car
it began in there. It was
amusing and unexpected,
but quickly became quite lovely.
I drove all the way
listening to the birds instead of music!
Later, I returned home with the birds.
My car had became a
Summer morning full of peace.
Traffic did not annoy me.

Today I was on Day 2
with the wild morning birds.

I think my blood pressure
has gone down!



Reactions
come from the mind, responses
come from the heart. Joseph Meyering Sr



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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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Linking To

Saturday Critters

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Cats teach stillness; 
birds are all departure.
Cat listens to the bird
the bird listens to the sky.

One lives by patience, 
the other by flight.
Between them: the whole 
lesson of desire.

Birds carry 
the sky’s old language.
The cat listens to silence 
the way hunger
 imbibes food's smell.

The bird knows what 
the wind remembers.
They seem to vanish
so they can return 
as signs.

The cat teaches stillness 
as a form of knowing.
The bird teaches flight 
and all about
finding out.

Bird is a bright thought 
Heaven could not keep.
Kitty contemplates
then promptly falls asleep!

Cloudia Charters
& Pixie

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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


᭛᭛᭛᭛᭛᭛᭛᭛ Love You, Cloudia & Pixie



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.