Wednesday, April 30, 2025

A Wish Lantern Set Out

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

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never 
in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee—
Emily Dickinson





 Canna indica – 
The Indian Shot, Seed Sack
Hope is a helium balloon. 
It is a wish lantern set out 
into the dark sky of night.
 Sharon Weil




The wall is silence, 
the grass is sleep,
Tall trees of peace 
their vigil keep,
And the Fairy of Dreams 
with moth-wings furled
Plays soft on her flute 
to the drowsy world.
                       Ida Rentoul Outhwaite








Find the sweetness 
in your own heart,
then you may find the 
sweetness in every heart. 
     Rumi



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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia




Tuesday, April 29, 2025

More Humanity

 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U


Hope is a discipline.

Mariame Kaba 


They say nobody is
coming to save you, but many people
have saved me, even if they
didn’t intend to.
It can be as small as
a smile from a stranger, a nudge from an animal,
words from a writer, the lyrics to a song,
an observant friend.
we are all saving
each other every single day in tiny seemingly
insignificant ways. Iris Rose



No more apologies
for a bleeding heart
when the opposite is
no heart at all.
Danger of losing our
humanity must be met
with more humanity.
Toni Morrison

Embrace with tender affection
the whole of humanity,
especially the poorest,
the weakest, the
least important.
Pope Francis

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

💜

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Feral Chickens of Oahu:

Monday, April 28, 2025

Heart Keeping

 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U


Listen to your life.

See it for the fathomless

mystery it is. In the

boredom and pain of it,

no less than in the excitement

and gladness:

touch, taste,

smell your way to the holy

and hidden heart of it,

because in the last analysis

all moments are key moments,

and life itself is grace. Frederick Buechner










Keep your heart 
clear and transparent
And you will never be bound.
A single disturbed thought, 
though, creates 
ten thousand distractions...
And you’ll go further 
and further astray.
Ryōkan




Release the weight
That you've been holding.
The heart knows how
To heal.

Slowly, surely, kindly.
Choose the stillness
As your method.
And calm
Will steer you home. 
Cloudia Charters

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Common Day Wisdom

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

Advice
from the sunset:
Close your day 
with beauty.


Beauty is whatever 
gives joy.
              Hugh Nibley





This working tower
Keeps to it's business.

Above, the day-moon lingers,
Unconcerned by the hour
Soft as an old thought
Refusing to leave.

The tower
Carries on.
The moon
Doesn't mind.

Daylight too is silent.
And smiles, knowing 
That there's room
For everyone.
        Cloudia Charters



Life is a series of 
unique opportunities 
It's our job to find 
the happiness in
each one.
     Rick Remender 


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia 

Linking To

Monday Murals

Jaipur Garden Affair


Lobby Mural  
by Bob Flint, 1997

I like the inter-generational, 
multi-ethnic/cultural mix of folks
in this mural. The local
Ko`olau Mountains are 
a familiar backdrop.
This image says a lot about our
 family-centered lifestyle
on this "country" side of
the island of Oahu.

Saturday, April 26, 2025

The World Turns on Hidden Kindness

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U
Unseen souls
Pray for those They don’t even know. Points of beauty Like roses in snow. Wishes for peace Hopes for grace, For every nameless Hurting place. No borders bind Their quiet pleas Flowing like rivers Into oceans and seas.  
     Cloudia Charters


Love is the power
to see similarity 
in the dissimilar.
          Theodor Adorno



A sudden light transfigures
a trivial thing, a weather-vane,
a windmill, a winnowing flail,
the dust in the barn door;
a moment - and
the thing has vanished,
because it was pure effect;
but it leaves a relish behind it,
a longing that the
accident may happen again.
Walter Pater



Personal growth starts 
when you decide to 
be who you are.
  Friedrich Nietzsche




Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.
Michel Legrand


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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie


 Linking To

Saturday Critters


They  juggled the stars 
with a child’s delight,  
But dropped every planet—
oh, what a sight!  
They claimed they could run it, 
No help would they need,  
Yet tripped on their shoelace 
A classic misdeed.  
Pixie
(On current events)

Friday, April 25, 2025

Mountain Steady

 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Focus on your character, not your reputation. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes."
Roy T. Bennett






Never get so busy 
making a living that 
you forget to make a life.
   Dolly Parton







Endurance
Suffering visits every life. 
In simple acceptance  
dignity grows. 
Not loud
But steady as a mountain.
Peace is found   
With open hands.
    Cloudia Charters 





A Relationship is: 
Two Imperfect People not 
Giving Up on Each Other. 
Meg Tuohey

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

💛

Links 

Weekend Reflections & Street Photography

Skywatch

Feline Friday

Floral Friday



Ideas are like rabbits. 
You get a couple and 
learn how to handle them, and 
pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck