The Beauty

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

Think of all the beauty 

still left around us

and be happy.

                    Anne Frank

The higher we soar 

the smaller we appear 

to those who cannot fly.

                  Nietzsche 

Our entire life … 

consists ultimately in 

accepting ourselves 

as we are.

                  Jean Anouilh

Self-love, my liege, is 

not so vile a sin, 

as self-neglecting.

                  William Shakespeare, 

                                                     Henry V

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 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

 You'll never find rainbows

If you're looking down.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't plot my books rigidly, 

 a preconceived structure. 

A novel mustn't be 

a closed system - 

it's a quest.

    Kurt Vonnegut

When you go looking

 for rescue, you end up 

trapped in your own weakness.

Deb Caletti

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

We build our days

Such fragile towers,  
Stacking minutes
Hours on hours.  
But even stone
Must rest and weather
Then time dissolves
Like floating feathers.  

   Cloudia Charters

The brightest light is invisible.

It shines through your deeds

and warms the universe.

 Dylan Hunt

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 Resembling a cross between 

a lion and a dog, 

from Okinawan mythology,
Shisa are believed to protect from evils.

Some of them have a great smile!

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. 

H. L. Mencken

Simply

 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

Compassion,

Let me be what you 

Are doing today. 

Thank you

A single reed sways,

Bowing to 

the weight of dew,

Neither resisting 

nor clinging;

It simply is.

Blue magic

Seeps over the horizon 

A hush of cobalt velvet ink

draped across the rooftops.

  

Clouds drift slow and deliberate,  

Lamp-lit windows blink awake,  

Each a tiny lantern in the indigo hush.

And the air tastes cool like river stones.

Shadows stretch blue silk fingers  

Reluctant to surrender

The day’s last golden relics.

Somewhere, a breeze stirs.

Dusk the gentle conjurer,  

Turns the world to her quiet spell—  

Even the trees hold their breath,  

As the first star, shy and electric,  

Winks from the pocket

Of the waking night.

Cloudia Charters

The sun rises and falls,

Moon waxes and wanes.

No effort binds them;

They are what they are.

Trust that whatever

you are dealing with,

whatever doorway to crisis

you experience, it is leading

you to a greater lesson in living

where ideally the power

of love is what you learn.

Forgive, and broadcast your

excitement to be alive.

Barbara Marciniak

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 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

I wasn't born a fool.

 It took work 

to get this way.

 Danny Kaye 

Leaf of BREADFRUIT TREE

When you yearn

to grasp

Open your hand

and set it free

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I really just want to be 

warm yellow light that 

pours over everyone I love.

Conor Oberst

Until one has loved an animal,

a part of one's soul

remains unawakened.

Anatole France

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Replenish

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

Rest and self-care 

are so important. 

When you take time to 

replenish your spirit, it allows 

you to serve others from 

the overflow. You cannot 

serve from an empty vessel.

     Eleanor Brownn

Life should be touched, 

not strangled. 

You've got to relax, 

let it happen at times... 

    Ray Bradbury

Thanks for skies 

Immeasurably blue,  

Clouds drifting softly 

With nothing to do,  

Rivers flow 

Always free,  

A quiet hymn

Called: Simply BE.  

The sparrow doesn't

Sing tomorrow,  

Needs no plans

Or borrowed sorrow.  

The song is now

Wings are here 

Let blessed joy

Sing pure and clear.  

So sketch your plans

Upon the shore;  

Where waves erase them

In perfect candor.

Walk barefoot

Where this earth is kind,  

Tonic for the busy mind.  

A breath, a laugh,

The sky so wide  

These gifts await

When worries subside.

   Cloudia Charters 

Almost everything 

will work again if 

you unplug it 

for a few minutes, 

including you.

   Anne Lamott

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An intellectual says a 

simple thing in a difficult way; 

An artist says a difficult thing 

in a simple way

 Charles Bukowski

Never Lose

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

Tremendous beauty 

can be found in 

the tiniest of things... 

for who has ever 

thought to rival that 

of a butterfly's wing? 

     K. D'Angelo

Never lose an opportunity

 of seeing anything beautiful, 

for beauty is God's handwriting. 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

Commercial Art of the 1930's

Commissioned to sell pineapples.

Reproduced as a mural at the 

(former) 

Dole Cannery, Honolulu

 Better to be without logic than without feeling. Charlotte Bronte

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 I have never been 

especially impressed

 by the heroics of people

 who are convinced they are 

about to change the world. 

I am more awed by those 

who struggle to make

 one small difference 

after another. 

    Ellen Goodman