Sunday, February 2, 2025

Feel the Good Luck

A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U

The meaning of life 
is just to be alive.
It is so plain and so obvious
 and so simple.
And yet, everybody 
rushes around in a great panic
as if it were necessary 
to achieve something 
beyond themselves.
              Alan Wilson Watts




True power isn't 
about controlling outcomes.
It's about learning to 
stay connected to 
your own heart in the midst 
of fear and uncertainty.
   Cory Muscara





If I had influence 
with the good fairy
 who is supposed to preside
 over the christening 
of all children,
 I should ask that her gift 
to each child in the world 
be a sense of wonder 
so indestructible
 that it would last 
throughout life, as an 
unfailing antidote...
   Rachel Carson,
  The Sense of Wonder









Every creature has a right 
to be on this Earth. 
Who am I to disrupt 
the natural order? 
"Respect" 
is a good word worth 
handing down to our children.
              Laurence Overmire


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Queens Medical Center, Honolulu
Photo taken on 
Lunar New Year, 
first day of the 
Wood Snake Year!
FEEL  the  good luck !
[Refusing to let others choose your mood
is real power!]



Saturday, February 1, 2025

Gummies Of Light

A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U
Gummy Bears

Create all the happiness
you are able to create;
Remove all the misery
you are able to remove.
Jeremy Bentham *


Monarch & Crown Flowers

Without the fire,
the phoenix never rises
from the ashes.
   Forrest Curran



Between stimulus and 
response there is 
a space. 
In that space is
our power to choose 
our response.
In our response lies our
growth and our freedom.
Victor Frankl 





As soon as you trust yourself
you will know how to live.
Goethe


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


 Linking To

Saturday Critters


I am out with lanterns,
looking for myself.
Emily Dickinson



*Jeremy Bentham was a philosopher, economist, legal reformer, and the founder of modern utilitarianism, an ethical theory holding that actions are morally right if they tend to promote happiness or pleasure (and morally wrong if they tend to promote unhappiness or pain) among all those affected by them. So if killing one person would make many people happy, then the killing would be moral. Or would it? I remember discussing this in Philosophy in school.....

Friday, January 31, 2025

Might Surprise You

A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U

Gratefulness 
has three steps: 
not missing 
the opportunity, 
appreciating 
the opportunity, 
and using or enjoying 
the opportunity. 
By this method we 
come fully alive, 
full of joy, which is 
what we are all 
longing for.
Brother David Steindl-Rast




A great person 
is hard on self
A small person is 
hard on others.
Confucius 




It takes strength 
to be different, to 
be humble, and to change. 
It takes strength to
 become the person 
you've always wanted to be.
  Brianna Wiest







Do silly things. 
Foolishness is a great deal 
more vital and healthy than 
our straining and striving... 
Anton Chekhov



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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


Links 

Weekend Reflections & Street Photography

Skywatch

Feline Friday

Floral Friday






Wishing you every blessing
in the Year of the Wood Snake!
Cast off the old, Be glistening
and new! The world might
surprise you.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Tea Bag Strong

A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U
Sunset is still 
my favorite color, and 
rainbow is second. 
Mattie Stepanek



Perfect happiness is 
a beautiful sunset, 
the giggle of a grandchild, 
the first snowfall. It's 
the little things that 
make happy moments, 
not the grand events. 
Joy comes in sips, 
not gulps. 
  Sharon Draper



External voices fade away, As inner truths hold holy sway. In this dance so self-defined, It's authenticity That we find. So let your spirit Boldly soar, Embrace the traits You most adore. For in autonomy's Gentle embrace, We find our true And rightful place.
Cloudia Charters

Top three shots courtesy of Mike Price

A woman is like a tea bag -
you can't tell how strong
she is until you
put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt




 Great thoughts
come from the heart Vauvenargues

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia



Links

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Souls Catch Light

A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U


Every day we have a choice.
How you see the world
determines the world you see.
Look for the good.
See the possibilities.
Remember, challenges
are opportunities.
Jon Gordon






A loving heart 
is the truest wisdom.
  Charles Dickens





If life was always easy 
we would be 
perpetual children. 
Some people are anyway. 
Handle your 
complications 
without taking them 
too seriously.




“..One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times...
To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these — to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both — are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do. “ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“Letter to a Young Activist in Troubled Times”


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


Look For The Helpers!


Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Only Ask

A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U


I only ask to be free. 
The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens





You don’t have to 
be happy to smile.
Daniel Willey

Just for today,
smile a little more.
James A. Murphy




An evil person
is like a dirty window,
they never let the
light shine through. William Makepeace Thackeray


Brazilian cardinal

Count your age by 
friends, not years. 
Count your life by 
smiles, not tears.
John Lennon


Go not to the Elves
for counsel, for they
will say both no and yes. J. R. R. Tolkien


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia