Monday, June 28, 2021

Calmly Care Deeply

 Yet weightless as feathers.

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schulz















For over a year,
it didn't feel wise
to go outside
into the strange night.

The streets I know
were empty with
foreboding.
It didn't feel safe.

Here is my first
outdoor Night Photo
in over a year!







During Hurricane Iniki, fish were swimming 
in the Honolulu streets. This is nicer!

We all struggle at times

and when you see

somebody struggling,

you think, ‘Gee, that

guy is being a jerk.

Well, sometimes

you’re that jerk.

Dwight Lambert








The flowers take the tears 

of weeping night, and 

give them to the sun 

for the day's delight.

Joseph Cotter








. ⴰ ⵔ ⵙ ⴱ ⵀ ⴲ ⵁ ⵔ

It has been over a year.
And it's been tough.

Life's simplest tasks
suddenly gargantuan,
scary, difficult.
Simple things, difficult to find.

Wrapped in isolation.
Streets empty.
Routines gone.

Every person in the world
at whatever level or condition
has surfed major change;

Our carefully balanced
life-houses of cards upended.
Some tossed on the floor,
some scattered to the winds.

Even those of us still here
are different.

And that change 
is just beginning.
Revealing 
new ways of winning.


Let's worry less, listen more,
calmly care deeply, yet
weightless as feathers.

New ways emerging.
I want to see what they are.
Don't You?

Be gentle with yourself.
And with all others.
Arguments
are SO old way,
Before Times;
Spent.

Flutter by gently.
This moment reeks
of Eternity,
Yet flies at the speed
of a blink.


Love You - Good Luck,
Pixie & Cloudia


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13 comments:

Teresa said...

Thanks for your words of wisdom. I think it's fitting that your first nighttime photo is of a tiki statue. We need protection in the night still.

Mike said...

Nighttime is the right time.

Elephant's Child said...

I am so glad that you are starting to feel safe in the night again.

eileeninmd said...

Hello Cloudia,

Lovely photos and wise words.
We do need to care deeply and worry less.
Take care, enjoy your day! Have a great new week ahead.

William Kendall said...

What has Pixie captivated?

RedPat said...

I don't even go out much in the day and haven't been out after dark in ages! Your words are wonderful, Cloudia.

Cloudia said...

Each of your comments here have really uplifted me! Thanks

Sandee said...

Such wise words today. Then there's Pixie.

Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.

Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Scritches to Pixie. ♥

NCSue said...

Thank you!
https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2021/06/arty-sea-world.html

Cloudia said...

Aloha!

magiceye said...

Loved your night photograph. Your observations of the world as it is today are perfect!

PerthDailyPhoto said...

So many wise words today Cloudia, good to get out and about again ��

21 Wits said...

I keep surfing toward goodness and positivity far too much baggage all around us. Upping my pursuits moment by moment! Stunning captures Aloha to you and Pixie!