All You Need To Warm Your Heart

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The older you get,

the more you realize it's

okay to live a life that

others don't understand.
Tyler Knott Gregson

When skies turn gray,
and raindrops fall,
Don't let your spirits
sink at all!
For in each drop
a gentle grace,
Symphonies of
nature's embrace.

"Snickers"

A worthy person is still
worthy even penniless.
A donkey is a donkey
even if finely saddled.
Turkish Proverb

My old 1973 bmw r75/5

The engine purrs a distant song, Two wheels parked, a journey done. No dust-kissed roads

or wind-whipped hair, Just echoes of adventures shared.

Each curve a prayer, each hill a test, A rebel hymn upon my chest. Now quiet roads of mind I roam, Old stories bloom, while here at home. For though the miles may cease to spin, The joy they brought still dwells within.

Contentment hums, a gentler tune, symphony of all that's been. The open road, a chapter closed, But in my heart, the legend grows.

So let the quiet be my guide, My journey's wisdom, deep inside. The motorcycle, a memory's gleam, But adventure flows on, the endless stream.

And in the stillness, I confess, The greatest ride is mindfulness. So let the engine's hum be still, I've chased enough, my cup is filled.

A nice warm shower,

a cup of tea, and

a caring ear may be all

you need to warm your heart.

Charles F. Glassman

ᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎ

Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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AWWW Monday

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A L O H A From Honolulu!

Change your 24 hours
and you will
change your life.
  Eric Thomas

Red-Crested cardinal (Paroaria coronata)

Medium-sized songbird

native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,

Paraguay, & Uruguay.

Common in Hawaii & Puerto Rico.

Better three hours too soon

than a minute too late. 

  Shakespeare

Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles Mating 

Always make time for

things that make you feel

happy to be alive.

 

We all have our time machines.

Some take us back,

they’re called memories.

Some take us forward,

they’re called dreams.

    Jeremy Irons

Time spent with cats

is never wasted.

   Colette

𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩻𐩺

𐩲

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Saturday Critters

I’d  Rather Be Birding

Jaipur Garden Affair

Backlooks

A L O H A From Honolulu! 

Conrad and I were taxi drivers together
here in Honolulu, circa 1990

 There's no fence nor hedge around time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it, if you can remember. How Green Was My Valley

(1941)

How can time take so long,
yet pass so quickly?
Back then I yearned,
and wondered;
Today I have memories
and know.

Grab your coat,

and get your hat

Leave your worry on the doorstep

Just direct your feet

To the sunny side

of the street!

Dorothy Fields

A photograph can be
an instant of life captured
for eternity that will
never cease looking
back at you.
Brigitte Bardot

Looking back, 

my life seems like 

one long obstacle race, 

with me as the 

chief obstacle.

           Jack Paar

᯾᯾᯾᯾᯾᯾᯾᯾᯾᯾᯾᯾᯾ᯒ

Love You,

  Cloudia & Pixie

 Links 
Weekend Reflections & Street Photography
Skywatch
Feline Friday
Friday Faceoff

The only time you should

ever look back, is to see

how far you've come.

 Berta Lippert

[OR if a creepy woman is

sneaking up on you

to take your picture!]

The Greater Part

 A   L   O   H   A  !

Dad always insisted

that he remembered

the first thing he ever saw:

"I was in my crib, 

opened my eyes,

and saw a telephone pole

outside the window."

Appropriate for a city boy.

But we teased him 

about the entire premise. 

How could anyone have 

a memory like that?

Now that Dad has passed on

by several winters, I find myself

perversely glad that he did not

have to live through a 

world wide pandemic.

WWII was enough 

global disruption

for any life. 

His story?

Oh I believe it now. 

Or perhaps

I just believe

the memory itself.

"Love leaves a memory 

no one can steal."

A Headstone in Ireland

Thanks to a benevolent 

arrangement of things, 

the greater part of

life is sunshine.

          Thomas Jefferson

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Each of You Brings 

Your Own Meaning.

It is our privilege

to Greet You!

                   Cloudia & Pixie

Linking To

My corner of the world

Nature Thursday

SkyWatch

Thankful Thursday

Little Things Thursday

Jaipur Garden Affair

A Penny is the smallest coin.

But finding one brings luck

All Day!

Little Things really 

ARE the Big Things-

Memories, Musings, Flying & Film

 A   L   O   H   A  !

When young, my father 

was an usher

in a movie palace like this. 

Then a projectionist in the 

WWII US Army Air Corps. 

Old movies were something

we shared. He had an 

encyclopedic knowledge 

of Hollywood film!

History, 

especially of the 20th Century,

is a fascination of mine.

Well, I spent so much 

time there!

JFK roared by me while

campaigning for president. 

(I was only a wee thing!)

 I debated with James Michener 

to my mothers humiliation, 

 

and I once tried to joke 

with Bob Hope on the 

street in Philadelphia. 

He wasn't having it,

 and the gorgeous blonde 

with him looked bored. 

I saw Nureyev leap 

and hang in the air, 

and I remember hearing 

on the radio that the last 

(US) Civil War widow had died. 

Of course, I saw John Glenn 

leave the earth, 

Humans walk on the moon, 

I attended Woodstock, 

spoke with Timothy Leary,

 

and saw the first trans-oceanic

 

broadcast on Telstar.

                         Link

Aviation is another 

fascination of mine.

So I was beyond eager 

to see 

"Across The Pacific"

about Juan Tripp and 

the earliest days of

commercial aviation 

overseas.

                         Link

Here We  Go!

Nobody who has not 

been up in the sky 

on a glorious morning 

can possibly imagine 

the way a pilot feels 

in free heaven.

William T. Piper,

founder of Piper Aircraft Corporation

Is it irony to share 

a flightless bird 

for this week's

Wild Bird Wednesday?

What Was THAT?!?!

I was annoyed from the start 

by the attitude of doubt 

by the spectators that 

I would never really 

make the flight. 

This attitude made me 

more determined than 

ever to succeed.

          Harriet Quimby, 

first woman to obtain a pilot’s license in the U.S.

✈

Love You,

                     Pixie & Cloudia

Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday