Comfort Spiral

Saturday, June 11, 2022

Our Conversation

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Learn to see the world as a place of becoming. Things that bother you are only undeveloped. Never let yourself be disappointed for long. If you keep looking for the dawn,

to work for it, to be patient

and confident, you will be rewarded. Failure is temporary. Your resilience, and

the character that

you build

with every good choice are yours forever.

Regard every annoyance

as passing.

It is.

If you are confident

in your beliefs,

you do not need

to enforce them.

You only need

to live them.

Today is a good day to

reevaluate your habits.

What has stopped

working for you?

Small changes can

lead to big happiness.

Truth

though crushed to earth

shall rise again. William Cullen Bryant

Words Have Power.

NEVER say anything that

you do NOT want to be true.

Immediately contradict a

negative with its opposite.

Repeat positive ideas

you believe in

and they

will fill your life!

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

Links

Saturday Critters

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Monday Murals

Jaipur Garden Affair

Happy 100th Birthday

Judy Garland

Friday, June 10, 2022

Thursday, June 9, 2022

How Sweet

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Honolulu Street Scene with Walker

Walkers are

'practitioners of the city'

for the city is made to be walked.

A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the

act of speaking

that language, of selecting

from those possibilities.

Just as language limits

what can be said,

architecture limits

where one can walk.

But the walker invents

other ways to go.

Rebecca Solnit

Take some time

throughout the day

to stop and remember

what You love, what

You are really grateful for,

what You are

working towards,

what You believe in.

When you were young,

trying to find your way in life,

was there a book, a routine,

devotional practice, or daily positive

that really improved your life?

You felt renewed, and promised

yourself that you'd never

forget this source,

this treasure!

Today I invite you

to revisit the books, ideas, and

practices that meant so much

to you on the early days

of your journey. Then

once the well is cleared,

the water is sweet again.

We merely forgot

how sweet it really is!

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

Links

Little Things Thursday

Weekend Reflections & Street Photography

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Life Is Beginning To Sing Again

A L O H A From Honolulu!

June On Oahu: Bursting Shower Trees!

Here the Moonlight Variety

Even a wounded world

is feeding us. Even a

wounded world holds us,

giving us moments of

wonder and joy.

I choose joy over despair.

Not because I have

my head in the sand,

but because joy is

what the earth gives me daily

and I must return the gift. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Perfectly Said

Political Season.

We wave signs for our candidates

here in Hawaii. This is

my incredibly young State

House Representative,

Adrian Tam backed up

by his top Hype-Woman:

Me!**

National vacuum cleaner circa 1911

I even bought a stick

vacuum cleaner today!

Though not the one seen

here. This beauty is steered by the

wooden handle at top, as you

furiously pump the other handle

up and down creating suction.

Would have saved dollars at Amazon,

but my pleasure to patronize

a long-time local shop.

(Where I met the antique above)

I grew up in the cleaning business.

So the jumbled little shop redolent

of hard work and repaired vacuum cleaners

powerfully took me back to

my dad's little home office

filled with such. I never rode

in a car that did NOT smell

like vacuum cleaners until

leaving for college.*

Despite the news, the

wear & tear on us all,

I found myself hopeful today.

Spring perhaps?

A good thing about age is

that we've lived through LOTS

of bad news and challenges.

Even wars and social upheaval.

One learns that life goes on.

One begins to realize

that we each do NOT

go on indefinitely.

Strangely liberating.

Gratitude guilds

everything like sunshine.

I feel for the

young people and children,

whose world contracted due

to Covid. But I also trust

that they will grow in ways

Not given me to understand.

Such ARE generations.

We do not let

human nature's

dark side win.

Not for long.

If your world is not singing,

perhaps it IS humming

just a bit?

I am grateful to those

who are keepers

of the groove.

The babies and the grandmas

who hang on to it and help

us remember when we forget

that any kind of dancing is

better than no dancing at all.

Lynda Barry

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Love You

Pixie & Cloudia

* Being thrifty with wooden floors I chose a super versatile and affordable Bissell Model No 20334

FeatherWeight™ Lightweight Stick Vacuum Link

** A hype man in rap and hip hop supports the primary rappers with exclamations and interjections, and attempts to increase the audience’s excitement.

Emmanuel C. M. says, “the hype man is essential to a live performance. He is an integral piece to the whole show. It’s his job to be the support for the performer, give the performer energy and keep the crowd engaged at all times”. Music writer Mickey Hess expands the term as follows: “a hype man is a figure who plays a central but supporting role within a group, making his own interventions, generally aimed at hyping up the crowd while also drawing attention to the words of the MC“. Link