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!

Lucky You Came

A L O H A From Honolulu!

When we are together,

I can see Heaven

from here!

Lasting Happiness
like wonderful, warm donuts,
must be made fresh every hour!

Light is where The Angels lurk.

Winning is over

in a minute. Want joy for life? Be kind and help.

We do not need to lack kindness,

but are free to bring our own

with us EVERYWHERE!

Ally yourself with this

wonderful energy.

Be a quiet

ambassador of Aloha.

It is up to others, as it is to us:

the choice of how to behave.

The way to open eyes is

just such kindness that warms

and rekindles our humanity. 

 Live ALOHA 

ᬞᬞᬞᬞᬞᬞᬞᬞᬞᬞᬞᬞᬞᬟ

Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Links 

Weekend Reflections & Street Photography
Skywatch
Feline Friday
Friday Faceoff

Mystery Refresh

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Look and think before

opening the shutter.

The heart and mind are

the true lens of the camera.

Yousuf Karsh

A smile will gain you
ten more years of life.
Chinese Proverb

There's something magical

that happens when people

eat from the same pot.

The family meal is really

the nursery of democracy.

It's where we learn to share;

it's where we learn to

argue without offending.

Michael Pollan

The passage into mystery

always refreshes.

We are lightened when our

gifts rise from pools

we cannot fathom.

Then we know

they are inexhaustible. Lewis Hyde

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La Peña Cultural Center or

La Peña for short, is a

multicultural center founded in

1975 in Berkeley, California.

Wikipedia

Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year
find you a better cat.
Benjamin Franklin

𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬡𐬟

Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

 Links

City Daily Photo "Rest"

Saturday Critters

I’d  Rather Be Birding

Jaipur Garden Affair

Monday Murals 

The Seal, The Ant, and Ducks

A L O H A From Honolulu!

On Saturday morning

I walk to the beach.

It's just a short distance from

where I walk by every morning;

But on Saturday I cross Kalia

and walk down Paoa Place

between the Hale Koa,

and the Hilton.

Today I saw a black feral cat 

catch a grey dove

pulling it down!

But perhaps being unschooled

in the hunt, or surprised,

kitty lost her grip in the flutter

as dove flew up and away.

What else will we see?

A blessed haze lies upon all

this region, wherein is held

a little more of the sunlight

than other places hold,

and a little more of the

summer's humming music

of birds and bees; so that

men walk through it

as through a faery place,

and feel greater joy and

wonder than they ever

afterward remember.

   H.P. Lovecraft

Resting Hawaiian Monk Seal! Full grown!

Ocean is more ancient

than the mountains, and

freighted with the memories

and the dreams of Time.

H.P. Lovecraft

Laziness Personified.

We do not see them 

hunting, and traveling

hundreds of

miles at sea!

Meet my ant

on a crepe ginger blossom

When you meet with

your old friends, you

recollect some of the finest

moments of your life

and find yourself in a

joy that has no comparison. Syed Badiuzzaman

There's nothing half so pleasant

as coming home again. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

ᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣᎣ

Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

Learn More About Hawaiian Monk Seals

Here

Plays Soft 0n Her Flute

A  L  O  H  A !

 How can I claim

to understand another

when I am a 

mystery to myself?

                                               cloudia

"The wall is silence, 

the grass is sleep,

Tall trees of peace 

their vigil keep,

- And the Fairy of Dreams 

with moth-wings furled

Plays soft on her flute 

to the drowsy world."

                       Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

“If you can't 

change your fate, 

change your attitude.”

        Amy Tan

Linking to
Our World Tuesday

۝۝۝۝۝۝۝۝۝۝۝۝۝۝۝

Thank YOU

Friend!

                   Fondly, cloudia

Wishes, Wings and Luck

A  L  O  H  A !

"She was not quite what 

you would call refined. 

She was not quite what 

you would call unrefined. 

She was the kind of 

person that keeps a parrot."

            Mark Twain

 "To touch can be 

to give life."

           Michelangelo 

              di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni 

That is a LO-O-O-NG Name!

“I wish in the city of your heart

you would let me be the street

where you walk when you are 

most yourself. . .

It has been raining, 

but the rain is done and 

the children kept home have 

begun opening their doors.” 

                      Robley Wilson

“The one with no imagination 

has no wings.” 

           Muhammad Ali

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Thank YOU

Friend for bringing your

imagination!

              Fondly, cloudia