Moment Lasts Surprising

A L O H A From Honolulu!

We are each gifted in a

unique and important way.

It is our privilege and our adventure

to discover our own special light.

Mary Dunbar

Orange Jasmine

A moment lasts

all of a second,

but the memory

lives on forever.

     Anonymous

It's surprising how
much of memory
is built around things
unnoticed at the time
Barbara Kingsolver

A common person marvels
at uncommon things.
A wise person marvels
at the commonplace.
Confucius

Poetry is an echo,

asking a shadow to dance. Carl Sandburg

Think big and live small.

Barbara Ann Kipfer

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Pictures of Infinite Beauty

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Sunsets are so beautiful

that they almost seem as

if we were looking through

the gates of Heaven.

John Lubbock

It is almost impossible

to watch a sunset

and not dream. Bern Williams

African Sausage Tree Blossom

Kigelia is a genus of flowering

plants in the family Bignoniaceae.

The genus consists of only one species, Kigelia africana, which occurs throughout tropical Africa. The so-called sausage tree grows a poisonous fruit that is up to 60 cm (2 feet) long, weighs about 7 kg (15 pounds), and resembles a sausage in a casing.

Wikipedia

Nature is painting for us,

day after day, pictures

of infinite beauty if only we

have the eyes to see them.

John Ruskin

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Java Finch

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The most impactful thing

we can do is to

live our sanity,

our compassion,

and our joy.

This has wide reaching effects.

[And vote in every election!]

The boughs of the oak

are roaring inside the acorn.

  Charles Tomlinson

The Java sparrow,

also known as Java finch,

Java rice sparrow or

Java rice bird.

Resident breeding bird in Java,

Bali and Indonesia.

In the United States there are (introduced) breeding populations

on several of the Hawaiian Islands, especially Oahu. In Asia

the Java sparrow is most often

raised almost from birth by human breeders and owners, and become

very tame and attached

to humans. They can be

normally let out for indoor exercise without attempting to escape.
Wikipedia

The Java sparrow has been

a popular cage bird in

Asia for centuries, frequently

appearing in Japanese paintings

and prints. Meiji-era writer

Natsume Sōseki wrote an

essay about his pet Java sparrow.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s

the Java sparrow was one of the

most popular cage birds in

the United States until its

import was banned. 

     Wikipedia

Chinese landscape paintings

often include tiny figures -

as if to emphasize the

grandeur of nature of

which humankind is

one small part.

Think big and live small.

Barbara Ann Kipfer

The noblest art is that of making others happy. P. T. Barnum

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