Lovely Portals

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From

Honolulu

How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die. Thomas Cole

Soft tropical light
filtering
through the palms.
“They will still bear fruit
in old age, they will stay
fresh and green."

Psalm 92:14

Photography deals exquisitely

with appearances, but nothing

is what it appears to be.

Duane Michals

Beyond the edge of sorrow
Awaits another tomorrow.
Soft dawn ends
The quiet night,
Filling shadows
With hopeful light.

Steps may falter,
hearts may ache,
Yet morning comes
And sleepers wake.
So hold this promise
Deep and true
New days bloom
And so can you.

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Monday Murals

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Stillness And Departure

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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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Pixie & Cloudia

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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!

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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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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.

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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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 Links
Thankful!
I Like Thursday
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Jaipur Garden Affair
H2O Thursday

Nothing you have

is yours to keep.

But everything you have

is yours to give. 

  John Sarris

Calm And Quiet

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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.

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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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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.

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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

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Travel Tuesday 
Happy Tuesday 
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My Corner Of The World
Wild Bird Wednesday
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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