Vast And Cheer

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Dad & Daughter

Hand in hand

feeling grand

Off the cement

in touch

with the land

Memories are built

of this

Trust for the future

Possibilities of bliss.

Throughout the years

Her soul can again

Return to her

early mornings

Walking along

with him.

Cloudia Charters

Symphony Skies

Most symphonies, however, are wordless. They are built only of tones, nonlinguistic sounds vibrating in the air, and somehow, we take them to heart and feel that they speak to us more deeply than words ever could.

M.T. Anderson.

Symphony for the City of the Dead

Golden Shower Tree Flower

You don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. Les Brown

Best Friends

Grand adventures need not roam, Vastness is found close to home. Stretch your mind

let wonder bloom,

No fortune spent

to chase the moon.

Craving vastness, don't despair, Grand adventures

hide right there.

Whispers in a

hidden space. Walks on sand,

a friendly face,

Friendly eyes

and open mind,

Expansive moments there to find. Walk beneath

a starlit sky, Wander where

the wild things lie.

For vastness hides

in plainest sight, Awaiting you with pure delight.

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Don't forget to

enjoy the game.

George H. W. Bush & Pixie

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Pixie & Cloudia

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Linking To

Monday Murals

Take to the Skies

with KittyBunny!

Perfect Hat Perfect Hero

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Calling bigotry an opinion is

like calling arsenic a flavour. 

Jack Cameron

Manu O Ku- Pacific White Tern

Kindness always wins. 

Oseola McCarty *

Rainbow Shower Tree Blossoms

If what I say
resonates with you,
it is merely because we
are both branches
on the same tree.
W. B. Yeats

Golden Shower Tree Fantasy

God favors those
who delight in being.
Criss Jami

My experience is 

that the teachers 

we need most are 

the people we're living 

with right now.

           Byron Katie

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Cloudia & Pixie

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Links
Saturday Critters
Jaipur Garden Affair

Title  Match:

It can be difficult to choose

a hat to suit our personality.

When you meet someone

who has successfully found it,

you Just Know!

* Washerwoman Oseola McCarty cleaned other people's clothes for over seventy years. She gifted $150,000 (much of her life savings) to the University of Southern Mississippi for aid to needy students. "So they won't have to work as hard as I did."

Better By Far

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Better by far you should forget

and smile than that you should

remember and be sad.

     Christina Rossetti

I love those who can

smile in trouble.

Leonardo da Vinci

Instead of wondering

when your next vacation is,

maybe you ought to set up a life

you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin

A face without a smile

is like a flower

not yet blooming!

Cloudia

Anyone can smile

on their best day.

I like to meet a man who

can smile on his worst.

Lauren Graham *

Smile, and let the

world wonder why.

Minnie Mouse 

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Pixie & Cloudia

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Links 
Weekend Reflections & Street Photography
Skywatch
Feline Friday
Floral Friday
Friday Smiles

All the statistics

in the world

can’t measure the

warmth of a smile.

    Chris Hart

*  She says "man" because

most women ROUTINELY do this!

Dream Tossing

A L O H A From Honolulu!

To live is so startling it 

leaves little time 

for anything else.

         Emily Dickinson

 Get lost in love, and

hate won’t find you.

Pixie

Peregrina

The way you alchemize a

soulless world into a sacred world

is to treat everyone as if they

are sacred until the sacred

in them remembers.

      Sarah Durham

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Anais Nin

I was very fortunate to play sports.

All the anger in me went out.

I had to do what I had to do.

If you stay angry all the time, then

you really don’t have a good life 

Willie Mays

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Cloudia & Pixie

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Links
Rain’s Thursday art date
Little Things Thursday
I Like Thursday
Thankful Thursday
SkyWatch
Floral Friday
Friday Faceoff

Cat's Advice

 A L O H A From Honolulu!

Eyes that hold

the morning sun, World unseen

by adults has begun. Child mind is a

canvas bright, Where dreams are born

and take to flight -

- Colors dance

with joyful glee, A house! A horse!

Flowers! A tree! Purple leaves

before a sky of lime, Worlds unbound

by space and time. -

- In glowing light

this heart so true, Explores magic creation

just for you. Oh, let them paint

with messy glee, This world they'll craft

for you and me.

The most precious gift

of heart alight, Serves boundless sparks

of pure delight.

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I promise you, friend: You can handle What Is; But never tangle with What If.       

Pixie    

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Pixie & Cloudia

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 Link

Thankful!

Obscure Craze of the Roman Empire

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The greatest enemy
of positive social change
is cynicism about
what can be changed.
Robert Reich

Deceptively deep
this heart we hold,
A universe
of stories untold.
With every beat
a truth unfolds,
Timeless tide
of all sweet souls.

Cloudia Charters

California Quail

Photo taken in Calif.

A fresher gale begins

to wave the wood,

and stir the stream, sweeping

with shadowy gust the

fields of corn; while the quail

clamors for his running mate.

James Thomson

Be both soft and wild.

Just like the Moon.

Or the storm. Or the sea.

   Victoria Erickson

Don't waste time on nonsense.

Nor be taken in by conjurors and

hoodoo artists with their talk.

Don't be obsessed with 

quail-fighting

or other crazes like that.

Marcus Aurelius

 

Quail Fighting?

Are they especially pugnacious birds?

More good advice from the 

Master and one time Roman Emperor. 

But chosen chiefly for the echo to

the Quail above.

And so another day in

Blogland!

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Cloudia & Pixie

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Links
Travel Tuesday 
Happy Tuesday 
Tuesday Treasures
My Corner Of The World
Wild Bird Wednesday
Signs2
Wordless Wednesday

Sign on a van belonging to

A Lion Dance Troop