Promise

A    L    O    H    A   !

Link

No matter how long the winter, 

spring is sure to follow.

        Proverb

Awake, thou wintry earth -

Fling off thy sadness!

Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth

Your ancient gladness!

        Thomas Blackburn

Science has never drummed up 

quite as effective a tranquilizing agent

as a sunny spring day.

W. Earl Hall

In Spring, everything is full of promise.... 

The child sporting upon the lawn, and 

the season, sympathize together, and 

nature rejoices in her virgin loveliness.

            Charles Lanman, 

                 "The Dying Year," 1840

Linking To

Saturday Critters
Monday Murals

⇋

Love You,

                                cloudia

Answering Passion

A   L   O   H   A  !

Right now, someone you haven’t met is 

out there wondering what it would be like 

to meet someone like you.

               Unknown

We need old friends to help us grow old 

and new friends to help us stay young.

         Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There is an energy field between humans. 

And, when we reach out in passion, 

it is met with an answering passion 

and changes the relationship forever.

        Rollo May

Reflecting on Northern California Memories

“Love is the only force capable of 

transforming an enemy into a friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We need not think alike to love alike.

Francis David

Linking To

Weekend Reflections 

Skywatch

Floral Friday

Feline Friday

ΐ

Love You,

                             cloudia

                             &

                                Pixie

Just The Way You Are

A   L   O   H   A  !

Come walk with me around Honolulu's

 McCully/Waikiki Neighborhood- link

You've made this day a special day, 

by just your being you. There's 

no person in the whole world like you, 

and I like you just the way you are.

              Fred Rogers

Be grateful for luck. 

Pay the thunder no mind - 

listen to the birds. 

And don't hate nobody.

       Eubie Blake

I never approve, or disapprove, 

of anything now. 

It is an absurd attitude 

to take towards life. 

We are not sent into the world to 

air our moral prejudices.  

            Oscar Wilde

If you can spend a perfectly 

useless afternoon, in a 

perfectly useless manner, 

you have learned how to live.

         Lin Yutang

Linking To
Thankful Thursday

؆

Love You,

                                cloudia

Simple But Easy

A    L    O    H    A  !

Don't keep searching for the truth, 

just let go of your opinions.

          Buddha

See if there is not some place 

where you may invest your humanity.

Albert Schweitzer

Tension is who you think 

you should be. 

Relaxation is who you are. 

       Chinese Proverb

Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday

დ

Love You,

                                  cloudia

Able To Interpret

A    L    O    H    A  !

I like the small clouds dancing

below the giant one here,

the mother ship.

Dusk In Honolulu.

Dark Dragon chases 

a tasty morsel!

Blessed are they who see 

beautiful things in humble places 

where other people see nothing.

Everything is beautiful, all that 

matters is to be able to interpret. 

             Camille Pissarro

I found this immature coconut

tucked on a ledge at the 

Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor

in Waikiki; Painted to bring out

the creature someone saw.

How long did the waters shape it?

Arctic Seal? Fox?

Leaves and bark, leaves and bark,

To lean against and hear in the dark. ...

         

Robert Frost 

ဪ

   Love You,

                                     cloudia

Street Photos

A    L    O    H    A  !

Photography is what 

emotions look like.

     Jon Luvelli

I always thought of photography 

as a naughty thing to do - 

that was one of my favourite things about it, 

and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

                 Diane Arbus

Don’t shoot what it looks like. 

Shoot what it feels like.

     David Alan Harvey

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. . . I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

          Elliott Erwin 

Linking To:

Monday Murals

Our World Tuesday

Travel Tuesday

Happy Tuesday

Pictorial Tuesday

₢

   Love You,

                                               cloudia

A Simple Ancient Hack

A    L    O    H    A  !

Sometimes your joy is

 the source of your smile, but 

sometimes your smile can be 

the source of your joy.

               Thich Nhat Hanh

 A smile remains the most inexpensive gift 

you can bestow on anyone and 

yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

      Og Mandino

Smiling is definitely one of 

the best beauty remedies.

 If you have a good sense of humor and 

a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.

              Rashida Jones

Because of your smile, 

you make life more beautiful.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Share your smile with the world. 

It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.

Christie Brinkley

〄

Love You,

                                   cloudia

Neurotransmitters/endorphins 

make us feel happy.

It's really that simple.

They are released 

when you smile, 

triggered by the movements 

of facial muscles. 

This makes us feel happy, and

measurably lowers stress. 

Even a "fake" smile (or laugh!) 

triggers our brain in this way. 

Tell your brain

that you are happy

and it also believes that!

Why not trick yourself 

to your own benefit, 

mentally AND physically?

It will not be only

to your own benefit

I promise! 

When you smile

people treat you

differently!

This is proven.

It is a gift 

you give to others

and to yourself.

Life responds to

the generous.

Thank YOU

For sharing here!

                  Fondly, cloudia

Heaven Eyes Over Hawaii

A    L    O    H    A  !

Only in a place like this do earth and sky 

come together in such a way that 

they bridge into one, and in such a place 

a person could put up her arms 

and find herself in heaven.

          Laura Pritchett

Nature, time and patience are 

the three great physicians. 

        Chinese proverb

When we look up, it widens our horizons. 

We see what a little speck we are in the universe, 

so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, 

but in the sky, there are no boundaries. 

No differences of caste or religion or race.

                             Julia Gregson

Birds were created to record everything.

 They were not designed just to be 

beautiful jewels in the sky, but 

to serve as the eyes of heaven.

               Suzy Kassem

Linking To

Saturday Critters

I'd Rather Be Birdin

🐣

Love You,

                            cloudia