Saturday, November 30, 2024

Uncut Diamonds

Aloha From Honolulu!

In a world like ours,

all we’ve got to be -
is the warmth of
the morning sun.
Michael Bassey Johnson

Shell Ginger & Bee

To make a prairie

it takes a clover

and one bee,

One clover, and a bee,

And revery.

The revery alone will do,

If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

Little Green Heron

Birds sing after a storm;

why shouldn't people feel

as free to delight in

whatever sunlight

remains to them?

Rose Kennedy

Diamond Head Light

Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value
will never be known.
Improve them
and they will become
the brightest gems
in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

With a good friend

the hours are short.

Basque proverb

𐇧 𐇧 𐇧 𐇧 𐇧 𐇧 𐇧

Love You,

Pixie, Cloudia

& the Bee

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Linking To
Saturday Critters

When the bee comes
to your house,
let her have beer;
you may
want to visit the
bee's house some day.
Congo Proverb

Friday, November 29, 2024

The Art Of Letting It Be

Aloha From Honolulu!

In quiet can be found

The art of letting it be.

Acceptance blooms wide

When boundaries dissolve.

Finding the courage

to live free.

There is magic

in the flow.

Richness of

what simply is.

Embrace the world

as it comes.

Harmony unfolds

In a quiet heart.

Cloudia Charters

Do All the good you can,

by all the means you can,

in all the ways you can,

in all the places you can,

at all the times you can,

to all the people you can,

as long as ever you can.

John Wesley

(Uncertain Attribution)

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. Martin Buxbaum

Galphimia gracilis,

native to eastern Mexico.

Widely cultivated in warm regions throughout the world, often

under the common names

gold shower or shower-of-gold,

slender goldshower or

sometimes thryallis.

Wikipedia

2012

Give thanks today for the

compassionate people; the

lovers, helpers, givers, and

healers, who see more than

just themselves, who move

through the world with

open hands and

not closed fists.

Thank You, Keep Going.

It Matters

John Pavlovitz

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

😸

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

Happy Art

I have been cast aside,

but I sparkle in the darkness.

I have been slain, but live on

in the rivers of history.

I seek no conquest,

no wealth, no power,

no revenge;

I seek only discovery

Of the illimitable heights and

depths of my own being.

Pauli Murray

“Prophecy”

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Hope Extinguisher of Despair

Aloha From Honolulu!

The early morning
has gold
in its mouth.
Benjamin Franklin

With a little seed of
imagination you can
grow a field of hope.
African Proverb

Hope is the

extinguisher of despair.

Richard Mwebesa

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in

a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake

A woman whose

smile is open

and whose expression

is glad

has a kind of beauty

no matter what

she wears.

Anne Roiphe

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Links
Rain’s Thursday art date
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I Like Thursday
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It is a beautiful and blessed world we live in...

...and while life lasts,

to lose the enjoyment of it is a sin. A.W. Chambers

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Taste Embrace

Aloha From Honolulu!

Embrace the beauty

Of this day!

Really taste it

Before it slips away.

Keep Palm

And Carry Frond!

Pixie

Hope begins in the dark,

the stubborn hope that if

you just show up

and try to do

the right thing,

the dawn will come.

Anne Lamot

Some believe it is only

great power that can

hold evil in check, but

that is not what I have found.

It is the small everyday deeds

of ordinary folk that keep

the darkness at bay.

Small acts of kindness and love. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Linking To

Thankful!

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 Erwitt

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

The Pattern One Enjoys

Aloha From Honolulu!

Success is following

the pattern of life

one enjoys most. Al Capp

Pacific White Tern,

Manu O Ku

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows. Donald G. Mitchell