How To Be A Beautiful Sunset

A L O H A From Honolulu!

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent--that is to triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A human life is a

story told by God.

   Hans Christian Andersen

Do not watch the clock.

Do what it does.

Keep going.

    Sam Levenson

Wisdom is the perception of the unimportance of the things we call great, and of the importance of the things we call small. Charles Edward Jerningham

Life is really simple,

but we insist on

making it complicated. Confucius

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Be kind, be strong, in every deed, The hero lives when masks recede.

Pixie

Enhancing Corner

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Golden galleon clouds
Sail softly out to sea,
A canvas duly painted
With hues of destiny.

Copper and gold
Masterpiece of light,
Fading into purple
As shadows claim the night.

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Human felicity is produced

 not as much by

great pieces of good fortune

 that seldom happen

 as by little advantages

 that occur every day.

      Benjamin Franklin 

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The work will wait 

while you show

 the child the rainbow,

 but the rainbow

 won't wait 

while you do

 the work.

  Douglas Pagels

Some people

strengthen the society 

just by being the

kind of people they are.

 John W. Gardner  

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Released in July 1963.

Reached #27 on Billboard's national charts:

Those We Love

A L O H A From Honolulu!

All, Many, Few

First Nations / Native Bird Flute

The flute of the infinite

is played without ceasing,

and it's sound is love.

 Kabir

Are you looking for me?

I am in the next seat.

My shoulder is against yours...

you will see me instantly —

you will find me in the

tiniest house of time.

Kabir *

Upon the wall, a magic sight,

A furry friend of softest light.

No paws to tread, no tail to flick,

Just shadow-dance and magic trick.

Whiskered shape O ghostly gleam,

Abstract friend in sunlit scheme.

Fleeting wink, a silver stream,

Tiny tiger in a dream.

Ephemeral friend, moment’s grace,

Whiskered smile from outer space

You're gone as quickly as you came,

Dazzle phantom silver flame!

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Wonder is the

beginning of wisdom.

Socrates

   

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The human soul

is God's candle. Proverbs,

                       Chapter 20 Verse 27

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A Fresh Breeze

 A L O H A From Honolulu!

 We all live

 under the same sky,

 but we don't all have

 the same horizon.

   Konrad Adenauer

 Act as if 

what you do

 makes a difference.

 It does. 

 William James

 Take rest; 

a field that has rested 

gives a bountiful crop. 

Ovid

The gift of fantasy 

has meant more to me 

 than any talent 

for abstract, 

positive thinking.  

Albert Einstein

New candidates shine

folks cheer with glee,

Old ones fade into history!

The hardest thing for them to know

is when they're done and time to  go.

Then the voters have their say

Longing for a brand new day!

          Pixie

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Sky, a canvas vast and deep,

Painted hues of blue and sleep.

Flowers, earthly stars in bloom,

Real as dreams in a fragrant room.

Petals' softly whispered prayer

Dancing gently on the air.

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Carnation Or Peony?

A L O H A From Honolulu!

If you want to be a great leader,

start by seeing greatness in others,

and then inspire, encourage, and

coach them to achieve it.

  John Gordon 

Almost everything will

work again if you unplug it

for a few minutes. . .

Including you. Anne Lamott

Creativity is

intelligence having fun. Einstein

The truth does not require

your participation

in order to exist. Terence McKenna

Youth looks ahead Age looks back The moment, shiny penny, Rolls unnoticed

Down the crack.

Pixie

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Sometimes It IS Gold

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Too many people miss

the silver lining because

they're expecting gold.

Maurice Sendak

Honolulu Back Streets

Grieving the people you have loved is part and parcel of growing old and it takes a lot of will power and keeping a constant check on your thoughts to stay positive.

    Nicky Melville

 Friends are as companions

on a journey,  who ought to

aid each other

to persevere in the road

to a happier life.

     Pythagoras

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Things that were

hard to bear are

sweet to remember.

Seneca

Yet in the heart a flicker gleams,

Sparks of hope the distant dream.

At last from depths of darkest night,

Ariseth dawn with healing light.

Let us unite with hearts aflame,

To mend the world and heal its pain.

With kindness sown, with empathy’s grace

We’ll build together a

Much better place.

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V O T E

Are You Registered?

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Observing

A L O H A From Honolulu!

As she read on, her surroundings

gradually faded, and soon there lay

about her only the mists of dream;

the purple, star-strewn mists

beyond Time, where only

gods and dreamers walk.

H.P. Lovecraft

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You must live in the present,

launch yourself on every wave,

find your eternity in each moment.

    Henry David Thoreau

The biggest creative cheat code is to get out of your own way and let the universe work through you... Rather than trying too hard to micromanage the process and control the outcome, in both creativity and life, I have learned that it’s better to open myself to unexpected solutions and make

myself a vessel for the muse.

     James McCrae

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease

observing a spear

of summer grass.

Walt Whitman

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