Tea Fragrance Room

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Life gives us more gifts in a day
than we unwrap in a year.
John Sarris 

Poised as a statue carved in concrete,

The only stillness on the street

Delivery trucks rumble cacophony, Yet her silence blooms in mystery. Scent of frying noodles

sweet and strong, As Chinatown shoppers

hurry along...

Cloudia Charters

Char Hung Sut means

Tea Fragrance Room

[smell of the tea-house]

Laughter is the shortest 

distance between two people.

              Victor Borge 

 'Twas not given for thee alone,

Pass it on;

Let it travel down the years,

Let it wipe another's tears,

'Til in Heaven the deed appears -

Pass it on.

        Henry Burton

I like the intimation that

our actions reverberate far

further than we know.

And that someday we may

fully appreciate how far!

Cloudia

Self-control is something

for which I do not strive.

Self-control means wanting to be

effective at some random point

in the infinite radiations of

my spiritual existence.

Franz Kafka

Me Too!

Pixie

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Love You

Pixie & Cloudia

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Not Trifles

A L O H A From Honolulu!

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison

Staying kind, calm, and

keeping an open mind 

are radical acts today!

Petals soft as satin sighs,

Plumeria twirls down from the skies,

To paint the grass like colored snow,

Springtime blooms in gentle glow.

Nature's art this fragrant sea

Sweet perfume to the trade wind's glee.

This lawn of blooms a tropic grace,

Touches of heaven in this place.

Carpet soft, a fragrant bed,

Spring time's whispers gently spread.

Cloudia Charters

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

Pema Chodron

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything

George Bernard Shaw, 

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, knows something. Wilson Mizner

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Monday Murals

Mystery Scene With Dog

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The Moon, like a flower

in Heaven's high bower,

with silent delight,

sits

and smiles on the night.

      William Blake

Click on photo to enlarge the mystery

Light isn't always buoyant

and shadows aren't always despair;

yet both, I believe, are limitless

in lessons that they share.

Carolyn Riker

Remember,

the best way to resist darkness

is to shine your own light.

Be the kindness

that defies negativity.

   Mattie Stepanek

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I never tell anyone

exactly how clever I am.

They would be too scared.

    Eoin Colfer

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A L O H A From Honolulu!

Wearing her crown of royal night,

The city breathes in jeweled light.

Streets below, vibrant streams

Flash neon signs and active dreams.

But up above, the heavens hold

A deeper magic poured in black gold.

      Cloudia Charters

Animals praise a good day, a good hunt.

They praise rain if they're thirsty.

That's prayer. They don't live an

unconscious life, they simply have no

language to talk about these things.

But they are grateful for the

good things that come along.

            Mary Oliver

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Adenium is a genus of flowering plants

in the family Apocynaceae first described in 1819.

It is native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

With the delicacy of a flower,

love tames the most aloof hearts.

     Augusto Branco

There are no empty gestures

made with a full heart. 

   John Sarris 

𑂋𑂋𑂋𑂋𑂋𑂋𑂋𑂋𑂋𑂋𑂋

Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Warrior Not Worrier

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Remember

We are not given a challenge

we can't overcome.

The reason most people break

down is that they put most of

the energy into the problem

instead of the solution.

Let's get into warrior mode

not worrier mode!

Gedale Fenster

The Crown-flower queen, In robes of lilac blue With her stems of attendants, And Bees, around her head. The little bees are glad, For they know that she is good, And the Crown-flower is happy, In their neighborhood

Together they endure

In harmony and peace.

The crown herself is crowned

By her golden bees.

Cloudia Charters

The greatest illusion of

modern society is that freedom

is purely individualistic, when in

reality, our freedom is deeply

interconnected with the

well-being of everyone. @berniegirl67_3

The longer I live, the more deeply

I learn that love, whether we call it

friendship or family or romance, is

the work of mirroring and magnifying

each other's light. Gentle work.

Steadfast work. Life-saving work

in those moments when life and

shame and sorrow occlude our own light

from our view, but there is still a

clear-eyed loving person to beam it back.

In our best moments, we are that

person for another. James Baldwin

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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The Road to Heliconia

A L O H A From Honolulu!

It was good to be a little island
a part of the world
and a world of its own
all surrounded by
the bright blue sea.
Golden MacDonald

[Margaret Wise Brown]

Heliconia

Don't wait to be successful

at some future point.

Have a successful relationship

with the present moment and be

fully present in whatever you are doing.

That is success.

    Eckhart Tolle

Sing with your voices,

your hearts, your

lips and your lives.

Augustine Of Hippo

I Will always carry myself

with understated dignity.

But what others think of me

is really none of my business. 

They don't know me.

      Cloudia 

Even when you spend your day

 on the edge of darkness 

the light always finds

its way to you.

           Karen Sather

The whole world is a

series of miracles, but

we're so used to them

we call them ordinary things. Hans Christian Andersen

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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