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

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A L O H A From Honolulu!

There's a great joy in my giving.

It's thrilling. It's exhilarating.

It's important to be a

part of sharing.

It is my love.

It is my joy.

W. Clement Stone

Be comfortable in the narrow streets

because they will take you

to the wider streets!

 Mehmet Murat ildan

I see friends shaking hands

saying, "How do you do?"

They're really saying,

"I love you"

Yes, I think to myself,

what a wonderful world!

Bob Thiele & George Douglas

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Remember, remember,

this is now, and now.

Live it, feel it, cling to it.

I want to become

acutely aware of all

I've taken for granted. Sylvia Plath

It's the little things that matter,

that add up in the end,

with the priceless

thrilling magic found

only in a friend. Elizabeth Dunphy

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Pixie & Cloudia

We Are Contra

A  L  O  H  A !

If every prayer

was answered in a

predictable way

then it wouldn't

be a prayer.

It would be

a transaction.

 Someone said

that every prayer

is heard, and

is answered.

But sometimes

the answer is "No"

for our own good.

 Every day unnoticed
we are helped
in a million ways.
Still we get to
"do it ourselves" in
an enduring mystery
of our being.

We are mysterious beings
who are often quite 
predictable.
Apparent contradictions
appear near the source
of great truths.

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Wild Bird Wednesday


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Friend!
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Source

A  L  O  H  A !

Bow to the Sun

"Life begets life. 

Energy creates energy.

It is by spending oneself 

that one becomes rich."

Sarah Bernhardt

"You're writing the 

story of your life 

one moment 

at a time."

      Doc Childre & 

           Howard Martin

" The most beautiful thing 

we can experience 

is the mysterious.

It is the source 

of all true art 

and science. "

        Albert Einstein

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Friend!

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2 Mysteries and a Hallelujah

A  L  O  H  A !

"We must not allow the 

clock and the calendar to 

blind us to the fact that 

each moment of life is 

a miracle and mystery."

             H. G. Wells

"The job of the artist 

is always to 

deepen the mystery."

    Francis Bacon

"The possession of knowledge

 does not kill the sense of

wonder and mystery. 

There is always 

more mystery."

       Anais Nin

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Friend!

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Chinatown Night Dragon

A  L  O  H  A !

Nyctophilia is a Medical Definition:

 Preference for the night or darkness. 

Night is the time

of strange sights

"Art is not a thing;

 it is a way." 

                        Elbert Hubbard

Small Comforts

get us through

the Night

Wishing You Wealth! Gold Ingots

" Valuable beyond price 

are good feelings. "

             H. R. Haweis

Valuable

beyond price

is YOUR

visit!

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Macro Vision

A  L  O  H  A !

“I would rather 

live in a world

 where my life is 

surrounded by mystery 

than live in a world 

so small that my mind

could comprehend it.”

             Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Feminine Skies

A L O H A !

Tiny Birds at Left, Sun-Egg in Nest

 

" Mysteries 

are feminine;

 they like to veil themselves

but still want to be seen and

divined. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Is this_

why I have been_

such a mystery_

to myself?_

"

" Debate is masculine,

 conversation

 is feminine."

Amos Bronson Alcott 

Masculine-ism

'debated' my femininity

away from the controls

of me 

for a long time.

Femininity is frivolous.

I want to be taken seriously.

Yes, they like to look,

and to touch,

BUT I am

MORE!   

" You throw like a girl! "

School Yard Taunt;
worst thing peers
can say to a boy.

" The ideal man 

bears the accidents of life

 with dignity and grace, 

making the best 

of circumstances. "

Aristotle

“ The hardest part 

has been learning how 

to take myself seriously

 when the entire world

 is constantly telling me

 that femininity is always 

inferior to masculinity. ” 

 Julia Serano

But Feminism Valued 

the Feminine, right?

" As a result

 of the feminist revolution,

 'feminine' 

becomes an abusive 

epithet. "

Wyndham Lewis

Oh

" There is nothing more rare, 
nor more beautiful,
 than a woman being
 unapologetically herself; 
comfortable in her perfect
 imperfection. 
To me, that is the true 
essence of beauty. "

 Hussein Nishah 

" I am rediscovering

 the whole sexual dimension 
of life at the age of 86, really.
And that also means discovering 
the feminine. 
So the whole of this dimension,
which I had been seeking
 for a very long time,
 is now sort of 
opening itself up to
me. "

Bede Griffiths

" Feminine passion

 is to masculine

 as an epic

 is to an

 epigram." 

Karl Kraus _ 

Being a Girl,

Being a Boy


Source of life's
mystery,
sorrows,
and Joy.

A feminine sky?

I suppose it is one

in which

a Cloudia Voyages.

Gentlemen,

 are you thunder

 & lightning?

Ladies,

Ah Ladies. . . . .

So Chore - y

yet touched with

Glory

are we!

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