Friday, April 1, 2022

Our Regular Encounters

A L O H A From Honolulu!
Sunflowers
is the title of two series
of still life paintings by
Dutch master
Vincent van Gogh.
The first series, executed
in Paris in 1887,
the second set, made a
year later in Arles,
shows a bouquet of
sunflowers in a vase.
Wikipedia





Never been Painted
No Need to be Sainted
A Neighbor with whom
I'm most well
Acquainted!







Originally named "Sillies"
[Just LOOK at them]

Garden Snobs Lobbied
To Have Them Re-Named
Lilies.*

The horses, mares,
and frisking fillies,
Clad, all, in linen
white as lilies.
Robert Herrick




Shell Ginger
Always a Clincher
Hanging South
They Open Mouth
But Never Bite
The Finger!




A little ginger
will never injure
Ella Fitzgerald
    "Everybody Step" 




This Sweet Little Bunny
Clad in Kimono
Is Happy With Flowers,
Eager for the
Spring to Flow!





Icons Dancing
Above and Below
Impassive Diamond Head
Surf's Never Ending Show
Sky Keeps an Eye
And a Conga Line
of Clouds



Slowness means cleaving
perfectly to time,
so closely that the
seconds fall one by one,
drop by drop like the
steady dripping of a
tap on stone.
This stretching of time
deepens space.
It is one of the
secrets of walking:
a slow approach to
landscapes that gradually
renders them familiar.
Like the regular encounters
that deepen friendship. Frédéric Gros

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Love You
Pixie & Cloudia

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Thursday, March 31, 2022

How We Change the World

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Person to person,
moment to moment,
as we love, we
change the world. 
Samahria Lyte Kaufman



[Sometimes]
Small talk feels
too small,
-big talk
too enormous.
     Anna Quindlen




Not too little,
not too much. 
Just enough
Swedish proverb




Too Much?





At the best times,
nothing needs
to be said
with words.







At Play
Among The Flowers



Cleanliness is a mindset
– a positive habit
that keeps the body,
mind, and environment
happy, healthy,
simple, neat,
and delightful. Amit Ray 



There is never enough
time to do everything,
but there is always
enough time to do the
most important thing.
Brian Tracy

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Home Love Poetry In Pictures

A L O H A From Honolulu!
Pink Sky
Make me Think
Sky.

Pink Darters Darting
in a Baby Blue Sea.

You & I
go a long way back,
Oahu Skies
Full of Gods, Powers & Tales.
Blessed. Best.
It's Here I'll Keep
My Rest!



Red Delight
Ante-ceding Night
I look to the sea
that sailors live upon
sleeping on her bosom
all night long.

I Wonder at
Their Boundless Delights.
But as for me?
Shore City Nights!









Diamond Head Bus Stop
Quiet & Still.
Tranquil striated slopes
on the iconic hill
where temples and signals
betokened ancient forces.
Later overlooked the
19th Century racing of horses.
Named for a beloved Queen:
Kapiolani Park
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The Bus! The Bus!
Always Exciting!
Ever Reliable
Thrill in the Sighting!

Waikiki Route 20 Link





8 Main Islands
Shining in the Sea
part of an
Archipelago *
longer than a thousand
nautical miles.

But these main 8
are the factory of smiles.

The Ninth Island?
We call Vegas that!







Quack! Peep! Moan!
Duck Nursery has
returned home!



Living out here has
just meant happiness.
Sometimes I think
I'm half-mad
with love
for this place.
   Georgia O'Keeffe

And Pixie
& Me
We Love You!





Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Make Courtesy Awesome Again

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Photo Courtesy of Nelly Johnson
Courtesy should be
a continuous action,
not something to be
turned on and off
like a faucet.
   Anonymous










These wild chickens have laid their egg atop a utility box!
Courtesies of a small
and trivial character
are the ones which
strike deepest in the
grateful and
appreciating heart.
  Henry Clay




I often painted
fragments of things
because it seemed to
make my statement
as well as or better
than the whole could.....
When you take a
flower in your hand
and really look at it,
it’s your world
for the moment.
I want to give that
world to someone else....



...Most people in the city
rush around so,
they have no time
to look at a flower.
I want them
to see it
whether they
want to or not.
     Georgia O'Keeffe




When music and courtesy
are better understood
and appreciated,
there will be no war.
   Confucius




I wish people
were all trees...
I think I could
enjoy them then.
 Georgia O'Keeffe



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Love You
   Cloudia & Pixie
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Happy Tuesday 

Pictorial Tuesday 

My Corner Of The World





Monday, March 28, 2022

Another Basket

A L O H A From Honolulu!
Better to illuminate
than merely to shine
Thomas Aquinas





Maturity is peacefully
disagreeing without
thinking the other person
is terrible or believing all
of their other views must
be wrong too...




...processing different
perspectives without
ego or combativeness
is a real superpower.
Yung Pueblo



You are no bigger
than the things
that annoy you.
           Jerry Bundsen





Ego loves to condemn;
peace affirms itself
without judgment.
Yung Pueblo






Another Basket of Gifts:
Another Day!





Sometimes the darkest
challenges, the
most difficult lessons,
hold the greatest
gems of light.
Barbara Marciniak

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