Friday, March 21, 2025

Make Visible

 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U


What a nice night
for an evening. Steven Wright



You fill up the frame 
with feelings, energy, 
discovery, and risk, 
and leave room enough 
for someone else 
to get in there.
 Joel Meyerowitz











Hope is
a waking dream.
Aristotle




The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy. Christine Baranski


The birds of hope
are everywhere;
listen to them.
Terri Guillemets

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

🉀


Make visible what,
without you,
might perhaps never
have been seen. Robert Bresson


Thursday, March 20, 2025

A World Peculiar

 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

The night is a world 
peculiarly favorable 
to imagination.
    Marie de Staël 



Chinese Violet, Asystasia,
Coromandel, Creeping Foxglove
 
There are people who do 
not deserve your kindness. 
Be kind to them anyway. 
Kindness is a great 
weapon for the wise.
   Gift Gugu Mona





Sometimes the best
solution is to rest,
relax and recharge.
It’s hard to be
your best on empty.
Sam Glenn





We are here on Earth 
to do good to others. 
What the others are 
here for, I don't know.
W. H. Auden




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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie








Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Soft Paw Hours

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U
Time spent amongst trees is never wasted time. Katrina Mayer






There is no harm in
doing no harm to others. Gift Gugu Mona


Observe the wonders as
they occur around you. 
Don’t claim them. Feel the
artistry moving through 
and be silent.
Rumi

In The Soft Paw Hours
In the quiet hours
When all the shadows yawn
kitty brings the morning 
Another life at dawn.

She senses my timidity 
Hidden away from sight
Catalogs my dreams
Still scented with the night.

There's mystery about her, 
Whispered tales of ours
Of escapades at midnight, 
Chasing fireflies and stars.

Wisdom on the wind
That only she can hear
Songs more ancient
Than the world
Tickling her ear.

Cherish your cat
And the secrets she keeps
In the quiet hours
She guards you
While you sleep.
   Cloudia Charters 


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia




Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Happy Is

 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U


Today is life - 
the only life you are sure of. 
Make the most of today. 
Get interested in something. 
Shake yourself awake. 
Develop a hobby. Let the 
winds of enthusiasm 
sweep through you. 
Live today with gusto.
Dale Carnegie




Kay - Cow - Lee - Kay Street

In youth we feel richer 
for every new illusion; 
in maturer years, 
for every one we lose.
Anne Sophie Swetchine






A candle burns brightest
 in the darkest night. 
John Sarris 




Happy is the person
who can keep
a quiet heart in
the chaos and tumult
of this modern world.
Patience Strong

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

💖



San Francisco Bay Area

Monday, March 17, 2025

Sunlight

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

Retaining your composure
in challenging circumstance
brings a special kind of 
grace and power.
This Angel would agree!
And if you don't believe
in angels, then
this cloud formation 
also agrees!




Allow yourself to
dance with life,
just as the oceans
dance with the moon. Amadeus Wolfe




'Compare contrast'
this photo asks.
Adult at play,
Child looks away.



Do not anticipate trouble, 
or worry about what 
may never happen. 
Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

🔔

Sunday, March 16, 2025

Patience Strong

  A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

And while I stood there 
I saw more 
than I can tell 
and I understood 
more than I saw; 
for I was seeing in 
a sacred manner 
the shapes of all things 
in the spirit, and 
the shape of all shapes 
as they must live together 
like one being.
Black Elk



If you stand very still
and you hold to your faith
you will get all the
help that you ask -
You will draw from the Silence
the things that you need -
Hope and courage, and
strength for your task.
Patience Strong


We are the music makers, 
and we are the 
dreamers of the dream.
Wandering by 
lone sea breakers, 
and sitting 
by desolate streams.
World losers 
and world forsakers, 
for whom the 
pale moon gleams.
Yet we are movers 
and the shakers
 of the world 
forever it seems.
Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy




Life is short.
Smile
while you still have teeth. Mallory Hopkins


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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie



Linking To

Monday Murals




Gone but not forgotten: 
Jazz Minds Club RIP

Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Way To Mend

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

Happiness cannot be 
traveled to, owned, earned, 
worn or consumed. 
Happiness is the spiritual 
experience of living every 
minute with love, 
grace and gratitude.
            Denis Waitley




Have you ever seen dust 
dancing in sunbeams?
How it glitters 
like flecks of gold?
Maybe that is the 
true alchemy.
Not changing 
what something is, 
but seeing it 
in a new light.
L.E. Bowman




The way to mend
the bad world is to
create the right world.
   Ralph Waldo Emerson


Common Goldeneye 









No matter what you do
if it isn't genuine,
it's not worth doing,

if it isn't meant
with good heart
it's not worth saying,

and if it's a darkness
around you perhaps it's
not worth remembering.
    E.E.D. Horton  



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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


🚔🚕🚎🚋🚊🚚🚛


 Linking To

Saturday Critters


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Full Moon
Over Kaneohe Bay Oahu

 by Kathy Edwards  

 How can I ever have 
this experience again?' 
It was so mesmerizing, so 
complicated and so primordial; 
I could not believe it.
Vivienne Westwood