Soaring With Ease

 A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U

Photo courtesy of my pal @sisterface

The waves curl and crash, 

with a salty sea breeze,

But up here, I’m weightless

just soaring with ease.

I lift like a gull, with 

the tide and the sun,

Levitating at the beach? 

Oh, this is pure fun!

Ua ola no i ka pane a ke aloha
"There is life in a kindly reply."

`A`ohe lokomaika`i i nele i ke pâna`i
"No kind deed has ever
lacked its reward."

Hawaiian Wisdom

To attract men,

I wear a perfume

called 'New Car Interior.'

Rita Rudner

I replaced the headlights

in my car with strobe lights,

so it looks like I'm the

only one moving.

Steven Wright

A fact is 

objective information.

An opinion is 

a personal belief.

Ignorance is 

a lack of facts.

Stupidity is

rejection of facts 

in favor of opinions

Pixie

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Coffee is 

a language in itself.

    Jackie Chan

Our Own Quiet World

 A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U

Hand to hold,

Love and warmth enfold life's truest treasure isn't gold.

Health of heart blooms It's quiet ways, In peaceful hearts On sunlit days.

Sun-dried wildflowers,

dusty and true, Each petal a story About me and you.

Yes, I'm rich, not in gold or parade, But in the glittering heap Of rich moments we've made. Our life spun of sunbeams

and a sprinkle of blues, Tapestry of moments Stitch by stitch Me and you.

Come in, sit near Let the silence unfurl, Our riches bloom best in our own quiet world. Cloudia Charters ꤛꤜꤛꤜꤛꤜꤛꤜ

Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Linking To
Monday Murals
Jaipur Garden Affair

We live in our own Quiet World,
out of which we can accomplish
much of real value that
our society badly needs!

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The red blossom in photo 3:

Flower of Delonix regia Tree

commonly called flamboyant or royal poinciana.

Shall Be

 A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U

There shall be 

eternal summer

in the grateful heart.

Celia Thaxter

Did you know that
there are over 300
words for ‘love’
in canine?
Gabrielle Zevin

I'm planting a tree to 
teach me to gather 
strength from my 
deepest roots;
to remind me to be 
open and kindhearted.
          Andrea Koehle Jones

In the dappled hush 

of morning light,

Pixie  becomes a living poem

a whisper of grace, 

curled in warmth, 

where sunlight 

and silence meet.

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Linking To

Saturday Critters

Think Say Want and Do

 A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do. Emanuel Swedenborg

Golden Trumpet Tree Blossom

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable…but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

Vision is the art of seeing

what is invisible to others.

   Jonathan Swift

Say what you mean,

But don't say it mean.

   Andrew Wachter

Today I bent the truth to

be kind, and I have no regret,

for I am far surer of

what is kind than I

am of what is true.

Robert Brault

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 Love You, 

 Cloudia & Pixie 

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 Links 
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Few people know how to take a walk. 

The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much.

   Ralph Waldo Emerson

Close Up Blossoms

 A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U

Makakilo Morning (Link)

Courtesy of Dustin Ebisu

In the space

Between heartbeats, My cup rests Not full nor empty- Simply holding What it holds. Clouds drift by

unconcerned Free of shape

or purpose, Simply content

to be passing.

Cloudia Charters

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Bertrand Russell

Build a bridge by extending your hand.

Ken Poirot

Crinum is a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants that have large showy flowers on leafless stems, and develop from bulbs. They are found in seasonally moist areas, including marshes, swamps, depressions and along the sides of streams and lakes in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell

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Golden Shower Tree (R)

And rainbow shower tree.

Cassia

Rainbow shower tree

Blossoms close up

Flower Clearly

 A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U

 In the all-too-brief time we’re on the planet, we need to pack it with all the joy, beauty, and goodness we can, and that’s true even when conditions are difficult perhaps even more so.

John Pavlovitz

 

Get a bicycle. You will certainly

not regret it, if you live. Mark Twain

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

Buddha

You are the poem 

I never knew how to write 

and this life is the story 

I have always wanted to tell.

 Tyler Knott Gregson

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Good night

May you dream 

of lovely things and 

wake to find them real.

May you fall asleep in peace 

and wake with joy.

Life offers you 

a second chance

called tomorrow. 

   Good night.

The Dark Is 0nly Light At Rest

  A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U

Shadows 

prove the sunshine.

A tree leans east,
not for light
but memory.
Stones hold the 

warmth after morning.

The dark is only 

light at rest.

         Cloudia Charters

Somewhere, something 

incredible is waiting 

to be known.

               Carl Sagan 

Sign in a hotel: If you are unable to read, please ask the front desk for help.

S

 It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.

 Amy Efaw

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Pope Leo XIV has made waves by introducing the first-ever “green Mass,” a liturgy dedicated to caring for creation and highlighting the Church’s moral responsibility to protect the environment. This builds directly on Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical *Laudato Si’*, which declared air pollution and environmental harm as moral issues, especially since the poor suffer most from pollution.