Gold Dust

A L O H A From Honolulu!

As we are looking back And then we'll Understand We held gold dust In our hands. Tori Ellen Amos

The temple bell stops

but I still hear the sound coming from the flowers. Basho

 

I really just want to be

warm yellow light

that pours over

everyone I love.

  Conor Oberst

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends. Aberjhani

𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒂𐒊

Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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A L O H A From Honolulu!

"ALL About Me!"

True friendship comes 

when the silence 

between two people

is comfortable.

David Tyson

There’s not a word yet 

for old friends 

who’ve just met.

Jim Henson

Lagerstroemia indica,  crape myrtle 

A single rose 

can be my garden… 

a single friend, 

my world.

 Leo Buscaglia

You can make more friends 

in two months by becoming 

interested in other people 

than you can in two years 

by trying to get other people 

interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

How many slams 

in an old screen door? 

Depends how loud you shut it. 

How many slices in a bread? 

Depends how thin you cut it. 

How much good inside a day? 

Depends how good 

you live ’em. 

How much love 

inside a friend? 

Depends how much 

you give ’em.

 Shel Silverstein

𓀡𓀡𓀡𓀡𓀡𓀡𓀡𓀡𓀤

Love You - Good Luck,

Cloudia & Pixie

Linking To

Weekend Reflections &

Street Photography

Saturday Critters

Roadmap

 A   L   O   H   A  !

Today's a new day. 

It's your day. 

You shape it. 

Don't

let it be shaped by 

someone else's 

ignorance or fear.

Steve Maraboli

Success is 

following the pattern of

 life one enjoys most. 

                           Al Capp

In the sweetness of friendship 

let there be laughter, and 

sharing of pleasures. For in 

the dew of little things 

the heart finds its morning 

and is refreshed. 

Khalil Gibran

The darkness of the 

whole world cannot 

swallow the glowing 

of a candle.

Robert Altinger

Happiness cannot be traveled to, 

owned, earned, worn 

or consumed. 

Happiness is the 

spiritual experience 

of living every minute with 

love, grace and gratitude.

            Denis Waitley

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Love You,

                       Pixie & Cloudia

Linking To

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Answering Passion

A   L   O   H   A  !

Right now, someone you haven’t met is 

out there wondering what it would be like 

to meet someone like you.

               Unknown

We need old friends to help us grow old 

and new friends to help us stay young.

         Letty Cottin Pogrebin

There is an energy field between humans. 

And, when we reach out in passion, 

it is met with an answering passion 

and changes the relationship forever.

        Rollo May

Reflecting on Northern California Memories

“Love is the only force capable of 

transforming an enemy into a friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We need not think alike to love alike.

Francis David

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Floral Friday

Feline Friday

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Love You,

                             cloudia

                             &

                                Pixie

Old Friends Book Ends

A  L  O  H  A !

Walking on Saturday evening 
to meet friends, I crossed 
the Kalakaua Avenue bridge.

Around me, our pocket sized 
city of Honolulu

with all the hustle and excitement

anyone could wish for - but no more.

All confined, EMBRACED! between

the rolling Pacific surf and these

glorious, forested, tropical mountains.

I in cool shadow, beheld Awaawaloa

gleaming above in the last full rays of the sun.

I came to Honolulu as an

immigrant from the continent. 
Knowing nothing but 
full of attitude! 
Working the bars, 
as a cleaning lady, as a taxi driver,

taught me this town 'mango tree mailbox'

as the old taxi driving 'uncles' used to say.

Now it is me: I know what used to be there,

 and the name before that. Through hard work, and love, and refusing to leave, 

I made this my town. Now

I am a holder of memory and culture here.

A Kupuna, a 'senior'.

I love this man's native Hawaiian features!

Being an older person here

is very different that what I

saw in my California sojourn.

Here we mix all ages, we never stop

singing, performing, telling dirty jokes,

dancing hula, and holding raffles for

some charity. Saturday night we sent off

an old friend of decades, Gladys, to live

in California with family. 

It's too common a story here. 
Folks built their whole life

and memories in the islands, 
contributed MUCH as Gladys has 
done more than most, yet 
cannot afford to remain as seniors.

I am a VERY lucky duck

that managed to return!

We honor them,

 and we do not spare

the emotion!

Gladys spoke what was on her mind,

surrounded by those she has loved.

 and been loved by for decades

Remember that the most 

valuable antiques are 

dear old friends.      

       H. Jackson Brown

Linking To

Good Random Fun

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Glad YOU

are my friend!

            Warmly, cloudia

Aloha `Oe

G did great in his first

concert on Saturday too!

Over The Rainbow in Waikiki

A  L  O  H  A !

"Don't leave Hawaii.

You can never come back."

That's what the 

local people say.

The lure of owning a home, 

of better wages, the heat. . . . 

It all tempts Hawaii residents

to go California, or 

Vegas, or Seattle.

But once you are there ,

Hawaii calls 

in a million and one ways. 

The warmth of her people, 

the technicolor skies and 

mountains,not to mention 

Hawaii's food and music!

All have a way of calling 

in your dreams

like a siren song.

I heard that song for almost 

four years in California.

And coming back ISN'T easy!

But today I write to you 

from my Waikiki

of almost 30 years. 

Home Again.

Brother IZ Surfboard

I will never leave my friends, 
family and islands again.
Welcome back!
We are in Waikiki together once again.
Truly. Somewhere over the rainbow.

Mahalo for your visit. 
You are MOST welcome here!

A  L  O  H  A
Pumehana

ㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄎㄘ

Thank YOU

Friend!

                Fondly, cloudia