Thursday, February 17, 2022

Just A Shoestring

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Sublimate or postpone
your true Desires & opinions
long enough, and you
could well lose track
of what You really want,
and of yourself. 




No One Can Steal
Your Joy.
It is in
Your power.



Youth trades pleasure
Till the full moon rise;
Age shares comfort
For they have
become Wise.




N o t i c e









Don't play the saxophone.
Let it play you. Charlie Parker



Would love to play WITH a shoestring ANYtime!

You can play a shoestring
if you're sincere.
   John Coltrane 

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Love You,
  Pixie & Cloudia
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Nature Thursday

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Thankful Thursday

Thankful!

Little Things Thursday












Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Smile Down Moon

A L O H A From Honolulu!

If we look at the world
with a love of life,
the world will reveal
its beauty to us.
 Daisaku Ikeda 




Civilization is just
a slow process of
learning to be kind.
  Charles L. Lucas

An ongoing process




 

Matter is not
lacking in magic,
matter is magic.
 Terence McKenna




We awaken in others 
the same attitude 
of mind -




- that we hold 
toward them. 
                      Elbert Hubbard




[Some, you just need to love,
despite how they act,
while you avoid them]




I think that wherever
your journey takes you,
there are new gods
waiting there, with
divine patience -
and laughter.  
 Susan M. Watkins*




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Love You,
            PixieCloudia

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* Small "g"

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Lion's Brain

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Myna & African Tulip Tree
Being a light in this world
does not necessarily mean
shining a light on things
of which you disapprove.





A lighthouse turns
and gives light.
That's all that it does,
it makes no judgments.
Judgments arouse anger.
Light rarely does that.
But when light does
bring anger, It is
anger that reveals
the Real Problem.


So be your light.
Be a warm sun
not a spotlight or siren.




Then you will
arouse and participate
in the love that
is still changing
the whole world.

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Love You,
             Cloudia & Pixie

.



They say that adding
Lion's Mane Link
to your drink, gives you
L I O N 's  B R A I N !
Science Agrees.
See another drink
in this photo?*

*Rolling Rock Beer


Monday, February 14, 2022

Events Always Current

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Better keep yourself
clean and bright;
you are the window
through which you
must see the world.
         George Bernard Shaw



Life is a partly a
poignant business;
If you have a heart.

But I don't believe
in being armoured*

Choosing empathy
or it's lack decides
who we really are.




I can't help everyone.
I can't educate everyone
but I can care about them.

We are told to laugh
with those who laugh,
and to mourn with
those who mourn.

What does this mean
but to have a heart,
 to CARE!

[I like the tiny photographer in this picture]








Events are always current.
Don't let the temporary
cause you to miss
the enduring!





The ideals 
which have lighted my way, 
and time after time 
have given me new courage 
to face life cheerfully, 
have been Kindness, 
Beauty, and Truth.
                         Albert Einstein



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Love You,
CloudiaPixie

* ar·mor /ˈärmər/ past tense: armoured; past participle: armoured provide (someone) with emotional, social, or other defenses. "the knowledge armored him against her" Definitions from Oxford Languages

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Anti-Fragile

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Some things benefit
from shocks;
they thrive and grow
when exposed to volatility,
randomness, disorder, and
stressors and love adventure,
risk, and uncertainty.
Yet, in spite of the
ubiquity of the phenomenon,
there is no word
for the exact opposite
   of fragile. -



- Let us
call it antifragile.
Antifragility is beyond
resilience or robustness.
The resilient resists shocks
and stays the same;
the antifragile gets better.*







If you get easily bored,
it means that your
BS detector is
functioning properly;





if you forget (some) things,
it means that your mind
knows how to filter;





and if -
you feel sadness,
it means that
you are human.
   Nassim Taleb




Every human being
is an artist,
a freedom being,
called to participate in
transforming and reshaping
the conditions, thinking and
structures that shape and
inform our lives.
Joseph Beuys

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

Monday Murals 

Nature Notes

From The Archives

The Good.Random.Fun.

AWWW Monday



* From the book, Antifragile by Nassim Taleb

Saturday, February 12, 2022

Not Count The Years

 A L O H A From Honolulu!
Life is far too
important a thing
ever to talk
seriously about.
       Oscar Wilde





I restore myself
when I'm alone.
 Marilyn Monroe






Expect the best!
Save yourself
the wear & tear.
Then if the
worst happens
you will have the
resources to handle it,
not the exhaustion
of the self-defeated.



Honu
Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles
like this one
have endured since
the dinosaurs.
This one was seen on Oahu's
North Shore by my friend
         Mike Price






Let us know the
happiness time brings, 
not count the years.
         Ausonius Link

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Here's something I like to do:
Look at some news stories
from a few years back.

I ask myself
"Is THAT what all the
worry was about?!"
Looks smaller in
the rear view.

And it always does.

Today is just the same.

In retrospect
it will make beautiful
and good sense.

Love You,
  Cloudia & Me, [Pixie]


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