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:

  1. 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

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  2. 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.

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

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

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  5. ...may you always have enough.

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  6. Pixie is watching her meal being prepared.

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

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

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  9. Beautifully inspirational as ever, Cloudia. Blessings!

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  10. 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!

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  11. 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. ♥

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

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  13. 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...

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  14. Wishing you and Pixie joy this week.

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

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  16. Delightful captures and loved your verse!

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  17. 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.

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

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  19. 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

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  20. 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!

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  21. 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

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  22. Beautiful quotes and photos!

    https://jeanneselep.blogspot.com/2024/10/larch-hike-at-lake-louise.html

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