From Gratitude To Grateful

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From

Honolulu

 To speak gratitude 
is courteous and pleasant, 
to enact gratitude is 
generous and noble, but 
to live gratitude 
is to touch Heaven.
Johannes Gaertner

People give you
what they are
not what you deserve;
What you deserve
you give to yourself.
Anonymous

I used to schedule gratitude,

pencil it in
between my fears.
It was neat work,
rows of thank yous
like fenceposts
but the grass kept growing wild.

Now the air just
happens,
and I breathe it.
No checklist,
no ceremony.
Just ordinary steps,
Walking on the ground. . .

The Quiet After Saying Thank You
After the words,
silence stays,
not empty,
but feathered with meaning.
Maybe that’s what gratitude becomes
once it’s done performing:
just a hush in the body
that hums:
I’m still here.
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What is love? Gratitude. 

What is hidden in our chests? 

Laughter. What else? 

Compassion.

Rumi

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From

Honolulu

Brilliant Venus steady flame holds the evening, in the west. Beside her, soft as a

whisper of light the new crescent Moon. Jupiter lingers

with gentle gravity, a fleeting ember after dusk. Together they gather in harmony twilit line of presence, radiant, enduring even as they move to their next stations. This moment feels eternal. Cloudia Charters

Part of the Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project under I-580 in West Oakland. Designed by Oakland artist Pancho Pescador, in collaboration with Amana Harris, Attitudinal Healing Connection, lead artist David Burke, a team of local artists, and students from

West Oakland Middle School.

The one who views the

world at 50 the same way

they did at 20 has wasted

30 years of  life.

  Muhammad Ali

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All you need is already within you, only you must approach yourself with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors . . . Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Just Ducky

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From

Honolulu

I have always believed,
and I still believe,
that whatever good
or bad fortune
may come our way
we can always give it
meaning and
transform it into
something of value.
Hermann Hesse

Sailing slow to inner peace, Wave inside and wave released—

Ocean’s heart and outer blue Mirror all the soul Goes through. Cloudia Charters

It is only through shadows that one comes to

know the light. Catherine of Siena

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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A little quack, a lot of heart,

Just ducky!

Fountain

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From

Honolulu

Rainbows are made

of small raindrops.

Happy lives are made

from acts of kindness

Amit Ray

The heart once burdened now takes flight Embraced by quiet inner light. Cloudia

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home. Rumi

Pink Shrub Rose

Perhaps the most comforting thing about growing old gracefully is the increasing ability not to take things too seriously. Henry Miller

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. Washington Irving

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Where We Ought To Feel

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From

Honolulu

Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. John Churton Collins

After rain, each droplet holds miniature worlds on a leaf. Sometimes little things are more than enough. Each raindrop carries the sky. Around us, life bursts with miracles sunshine, a leaf, raindrops. pages in the book of nature.

stories to my eye.

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If you feel pain,

you're alive.

If you feel

other people's pain, you're a human being. Tolstoy

To listen to stars and birds, 

babes and sages, 

with open heart;

To let the spiritual, 

unbidden and unconscious,

 grow up through the common-

-this is my symphony.

William Henry Channing

1810 - 1884 

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Cloudia & Pixie

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        H O N O L U L U

Rainbow shower tree
in July, 
island trees 
wearing lei of light.

When the shower tree blooms, 
Honolulu walks under a 
rain of blessings.

Petals on the sidewalk, 
Summer snowflakes 
thawing old memories.

Pink showers remind us: 
even ordinary roads 
can turn into rainbows.

Shower trees are the quiet
 fireworks of summer.

Under rainbow showers, 
each step is a small 
parade of color.

Pixie

Morning is 
the dream renewed,
the heart refreshed, earth's
forgiveness painted in
the colors of the dawn.
   Kent Nerburn

Art is when 

you hear a 

knocking 

from your soul — 

and you answer. 

             Terri Guillemets

Love is too small, 

too singular a word 

for the feeling it's 

trying to hold.

 Nicola Yoon

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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NOTE: 

The Hawaiian word "Lei" is both singular and plural. 

It Is The Hour

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From

Honolulu

It is the hour to 

rend thy chains,

the blossom time 

of souls.

Katharine Lee Bates

Nothing is impossible,

the word itself says

‘I’m possible.’

Audrey Hepburn

Quiet people 

have the loudest minds.

Stephen Hawking

Better a diamond with a flaw 

than a pebble without.  

Confucius 

Stay 

with what you know 

is good.  

Not loud.  

Not forced.  

Only steady.

Keep breathing.  

(Keep breathing.)

Unexpected things will come—  

messy, sometimes sharp.  

Let them arrive.

Don’t lament.  

Don’t prevent.  

Just meet them—  

in your way.

Don’t become the moment.  

Shape it.

Gently hold  

your sense of right—  

the quiet pull of it—  

as the longitude,  

the latitude  

of the heart.

When something drifts in,  

meet it gently.  

See where it belongs.

And if it won’t fit,  

don’t twist yourself  

to make it.

Let it pass.

Keep your rhythm.  

Keep the trust.

Learn the order  

that builds truth  

deep into your bones—  

not all at once,  

but steadily.

Be an old friend  

to yourself.

Soft.  

Familiar.  

Relieving the pressure,  

not adding to it.

Return again.  

And return again.  

And return again—

to what you know is good.

Until one day  

you don’t have to return at all,

because it is no longer a place  

of pilgimage

it is where you live now.

It has become  

your home.

Cloudia Charters

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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