Monday, June 2, 2025

Clear And Enough

A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U

The moon is alive
because of the darkness-
how could we ever be afraid
of something that gives
the stars a home?
Laura Chouette
Photo 31 May 2025





True silence is the 
rest of the mind; 
it is to the spirit 
what sleep is to
the body, nourishment 
and refreshment.
            William Penn





Birds sing after a storm; 
why shouldn't people feel 
as free to delight in 
whatever sunlight 
remains to them?
         Rose Kennedy





Today,  
I woke with nothing to fix.  
Just the gift  
Of morning 
Clear  
And enough.

Night rain washed  
Old worries away.
In the hush before light, 
Feeling like a better day.
  
Voices of the waking drift  
With sparrows in the dawn—  
Near and far
A gentleness is felt 
Optimism
To which I'm drawn.

Outside leaves  
Turn toward sun.  
Their world is simple  
Green, gold,  important 
And fun.  💚 
                   Cloudia Charters 



ཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷཌྷ
Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


30 comments:

Mike said...

Another tree acquired.

Stewart M said...

I like the Moon and the Sun in your pictures - kind of reminds we just live on a big ball rushing through space! Cheers - Stewart M, Wilsons Prom National Park, Victoria

roentare said...

Such a gentle and powerful reminder—like the birds, we too can choose resilience, finding joy in the light that follows even our darkest moments.

Elephant's Child said...

What a wonderful way to wake. Love that view too.

s.c said...

Again a good one to start the week and I love the poem under Pixie.

Anne Hagman-Niilola said...

Hi Pixie!

Tom said...

...may you always have enough.

Andrew said...

Pixie is watching her meal being prepared.

eileeninmd said...

Hello,
I love your poem and sweet Pixie.
Happy June, have a great day and happy week ahead.

Anvilcloud said...

Have a good week.

John A Hill said...

Have a beautiful day!

DeniseinVA said...

Good day to you and Pixie my friend and thank you for the smiles.

RedPat said...

Thank you, Cloudia. ;-)

Martha Jane Orlando said...

Beautifully inspirational as ever, Cloudia. Blessings!

Linda's Relaxing Lair said...

Cloudia, your blog header with the rainbow is truly captivating. Your photos and quotations are lovely and inspiring. Your cat is sweet and delightful. Your poem is so beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing. Warm hugs and much love from Montreal. Aloha!

Sandee said...

Beautiful photography and beautiful quotes. The most beautiful is Pixie.

Thank you for joining the Awww Mondays Blog Hop.

Have a fabulous Awww Monday and week. Scritches to Pixie. ♥

Bill said...

Your photos are very nice to see and the quotes very inspiring. I like your poem too. Have a wonderful new week.

Teresa said...

Glad you have nothing to fix today! Great poem. Love the moon shot, and the one of Pixie reminding you that you do have to fix her breakfast...

Michelle said...

Wishing you and Pixie joy this week.

DVArtist said...

Wow! Such beautiful photos.

NCSue said...

Thank you, Cloudia, for joining us this week at https://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2025/06/and-now-meet-tommy.html

magiceye said...

Delightful captures and loved your verse!

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

What stunning photos. LOVED the one of Pixie. Her whiskers sparkled. Great poem by you, too. Great William Penn quote and a great photo for T this Tuesday, Cloudia.

Spyder said...

Love the poem and all the pictures, have a very happy T day ((Lyn))

CJ Kennedy said...

Looks like you got a picture of the Celestial Smiley. With only Castor visible it looks like a Winky Smiley. Very cool. Pixie looks so pensive. I wonder what she's thinking. Happy T Day

Sharon Madson said...

Love the quotes and photos. I had to smile as your first photo was of the moon and I had a moon related post. Happy T day, yes I am back!

Lisca said...

I love your poem. How lovely that you ha a day with nothing to fix. It's great to go into a day without a long to-do list.
I garee with William Penn.
Lovely photo of Pixie. As Elizabeth commented, her whiskers sparkle.
Happy T-Day,
Lisca

William Kendall said...

Beautiful shots.

Jeanne said...

Beautiful quotes and photos!

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Rambling Woods said...

I love your poem ...and Pixie...