A Garden Is A Private World

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The secret of the mountain is that

the mountains simply exist,

as I do myself: the mountains

exist simply, which I do not.

The mountains have no "meaning,"

they are meaning;

the mountains are. Peter Matthiessen

A garden is a private world

or it is nothing.

Eleanor Perenyi

Smokey Lunar New Year Dancing Lions in Town!

前兔无量 / 前兔似锦

Qián tù wúliàng / Qián tù sì jǐn

A promising/bright rabbit ahead!

It's Year Of The CAT, You Know! *

Tiền vào nhu nước sông Đà,
tiền ra nhỏ giọt như cà phê phin:

Money influx is as strong as Da's river; expenditure is as little as dripping coffee.

Our Vietnamese New Year Wish

To YOU!

ꯗꯗꯗꯗꯗꯗꯗꯗꯗꯗꯗꯗꯗꯏ

Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

* Lunar Year of the Rabbit,

is considered Year of the Cat in Vietnam!

Ant Wishes

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Click on photo to enlarge

Even the wishes of a

small ant reach heaven.

Shinto Saying

His eye is on the sparrow.

Jesus

In Hawaii, one may go to

a Shinto Shrine

for a New Year Blessing

and many do. Because of the

pandemic, this will be my

first visit since 2019

For Shinto, at root, is a religion

not of sermons but of awe:

which is a sentiment that may

or may not produce words, but in

either case goes beyond them.

Joseph Campbell

Holiday Libation with my pal Zeus
in his festive home!

For last year's words belong

to last year's language;

And next year's words

await another voice.

And to make an end is

to make a beginning.

  T.S. Eliot

This chart shows Honolulu's

air quality from New Year's Eve

6 pm to 1 Jan 2023 noon.

You can see the effect of

MANY illegal aerial fireworks!*

Lest you think this is
from recent volcanic
activity, above you can
see Hawaii island [Active

Volcanoes] on the

right edge all green.
To the upper left on Oahu
you can see the yellow over
Honolulu because of the
population density here on
the "Gathering Place" isle.

Pixie does her best Janus impression,

looking back to the past

and ahead to the new year.

She tells me it will be a better one.

After all, the coming Lunar Year

is the Year of the Cat in Viet Nam

[Cousin Rabbit in China]

We closed all windows to the smoke

and endured the barrage in fine style.

[With prayers for Ukraine]

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Wishing you ALL the Best!

Cloudia & Pixie

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Links
Nature Notes
From The Archives
The Good.Random.Fun.
AWWW Monday
T Tuesday

* Video of illegal Honolulu

NYE fireworks shot from my window:

Upward

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Courtesy: Dustin Ebisu

Our goal should be to live life

in radical amazement... Get up

in the morning and look at the world

in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.

To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Just love everyone.

God will sort

them out later.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation. Zhuangzi

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault

Look Up.

You may see

papayas!

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith

ᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎ

Love You Friend,

    Clixie & Poudia

Pixie & Cloudia

              { I let Pixie do ONE thing! }

Our wish for you

on which we agree!

Cool Uplands Breeze

A L O H A From Honolulu!

And like tea dissolving

in hot water, the sun

dissolved in the sky… 

creating a velvet horizon,

announcing for the stars’

night dance with the moon,

the awaited joy for

the wounded souls.

      Abeer Allan

The zebra dove, also known as the

barred ground dove, or barred

dove, is a species of bird of the

dove family, Columbidae, native

to Southeast Asia. They are

small birds with a long tail,

predominantly brownish-grey in

colour with black-and-white barring.

    Wikipedia

The peaceful dove is a pigeon

native to Australia and New Guinea.

The peaceful dove is closely related to the

zebra dove of south-east Asia and

the barred dove of eastern Indonesia.

Until recently, the three were classed

as a single species, Geopelia striata,

known as peaceful dove or zebra dove.

   Wikipedia

This feral rooster looks like a dorking chicken *

Any view of things

that is not strange,

is false.

  Neil Gaiman

If the vines are not stressed, The wine is insipid.

I want to learn how

to speak to anyone

at any time and

make us both

feel a little bit better,

lighter, richer, with

no commitments of

ever meeting again.

I want to go back to the

way nature shaped me.

I want to learn to go on well

with whatever I have in

my hands at the moment

in a natural state of mind

 Charlotte Eriksson

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Love You,

      Pixie & Cloudia

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Travel Tuesday 
Happy Tuesday 
Pictorial Tuesday 
My Corner Of The World
Wild Bird Wednesday
signs2

Neighborhood Signs in Kaimuki 96816

           Link

Keanu Reeves grew up here. 

Keanu is a Hawaiian word

meaning the Cool Breeze

of the Uplands. There is a

Keanu Street in Kaimuki.

* The Dorking chicken is an ancient breed first developed as a landrace in the area of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey counties in England.       Link

Blessings Friends

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Every storm

runs out of rain,

just like every dark

night turns into day.

   Gary Allan

Your success and happiness

lies in you. Resolve

to keep happy, and

your joy and you

shall form an

invincible host

against difficulties.

Helen Keller

Learn from yesterday,

live for today,

hope

for tomorrow.

    Albert Einstein

When the winds

of change blow,

some people build

walls and others

build windmills.

    Chinese proverb

Contentment is the

wealth of nature

  Socrates

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Love You Dears!

    Pixie & Cloudia

Today, PIXIE is

the

Saturday Critter

The story of life is quicker

than the wink of an eye,

the story of love is

hello and goodbye...

until we meet again.

Jimi Hendrix

Linking To

Monday Murals

Look Closer Life Continues

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Sometimes,

what you're looking for

is already there.

Aretha Franklin

The winding road slants

downward many a time;

Yet each descent is

higher than the last.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is nothing like the thrill

of walking through the jungle

looking for a tiger -

- and knowing they could be

watching you already.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

One hopes this lady 

is finding her fallen blossoms 

for a special lei.

A Recovery, or return home, 

come to mind. A new

grade, a new teacher.

Or maybe just because

it is Saturday and the sun 

is peaking over

the Ko`olau mountains

here on Oahu.

Life Continues...

The sky is an infinite movie to me. 

I never get tired of looking at 

what's happening up there. 

    K. D. Lang

In looking back, I see

nothing to regret and

little to correct.

    John C. Calhoun

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We're all keeping our distance,

and enjoying the broader spaces.

Sometimes, overlooking these

rewards for good spotting.

Often spotting better

vistas within.

Love You,

         Cloudia  &  Pixie

Blessings On The Rescuers of Kabul

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