As Humans

A L O H A From Honolulu!

True greatness is on
the other side of
temporary defeat
Napoleon Hill

 Albezia "Persian Silk Tree Flower"

A superb tenor voice,
like a silver trumpet
muffled in silk.
Alec Guinness

Japanese Visitors are Back in Waikiki

Travelers are fantasists,

conjurers, seers - 

  Cynthia Ozick

Ravenala "Traveler's Palm"

Our human compassion binds us

the one to the other -

not in pity or patronizingly,

but as human beings

who have learnt how to

turn our common suffering

into hope for the future.

Nelson Mandela

Me and My Shadow

This worldly life

is like a shadow.

If you try to catch it,

you will never be

able to do so.

If you turn your

back towards it,

it has no choice

but to follow you.

 Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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Love You,

  Pixie & Cloudia

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Inside Magic

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The magic is inside you.

There ain't no crystal ball

Dolly Parton

 In this age of fiberglass

I'm searching for a gem. Bob Dylan

I love the whirling

of the dervishes.

I love the beauty

of rare innocence.

You don't need no crystal ball,

Don't fall for a magic wand.

We humans got it all,

we perform the miracles.

Kate Bush

Creativity is allowing yourself

to make mistakes.

Art is knowing

which ones to keep. Scott Adams

Gratitude can transform

common days into thanksgivings,

turn routine jobs into joy, and

change ordinary opportunities

into blessings.

William Arthur Ward

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Magic In Action

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Golden Trumpet Tree

The art of knowing

is knowing

what to ignore. Rumi

Desire creates

a starting point.

Without it, no magic

can be put into action. Lawren Leo

You can handle

What Is; But

never tangle with What If.

Art is how we

decorate space,

music is how

we decorate time.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

It takes very, very,

VERY good karma for

a person even to care

about Truth,

wherever it leads.

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Cloudia & Pixie

Extracting Happiness

 A L O H A From Honolulu!

Youth is the gift of nature,
but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Lec

Blossoming Palm Trees

Choose what helps

your heart bloom..

  Dhiman

Flowers Up In The Air

One day you will look back

and see that all along,

you were blooming.

 Morgan Harper Nichols

Palm Tree Seeds

Never despise a seed;

one day it will rise

and bloom into a forest.

    Matshona Dhliwayo

Seeds bursting from the pod

Hope blooms when

the time is ready.

   Debasish Mridha

Java Sparrows are EVERYWHERE (YaY!)

The art of being happy

lies in the power of

extracting happiness

from common things.

    Henry Ward Beecher

My soul has painted like

the wings of butterflies,

Fairy tales of yesterday

will grow but never die,

I can fly, my friends...

    Freddie Mercury

Sign of Refreshment

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Java Finch

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The most impactful thing

we can do is to

live our sanity,

our compassion,

and our joy.

This has wide reaching effects.

[And vote in every election!]

The boughs of the oak

are roaring inside the acorn.

  Charles Tomlinson

The Java sparrow,

also known as Java finch,

Java rice sparrow or

Java rice bird.

Resident breeding bird in Java,

Bali and Indonesia.

In the United States there are (introduced) breeding populations

on several of the Hawaiian Islands, especially Oahu. In Asia

the Java sparrow is most often

raised almost from birth by human breeders and owners, and become

very tame and attached

to humans. They can be

normally let out for indoor exercise without attempting to escape.
Wikipedia

The Java sparrow has been

a popular cage bird in

Asia for centuries, frequently

appearing in Japanese paintings

and prints. Meiji-era writer

Natsume Sōseki wrote an

essay about his pet Java sparrow.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s

the Java sparrow was one of the

most popular cage birds in

the United States until its

import was banned. 

     Wikipedia

Chinese landscape paintings

often include tiny figures -

as if to emphasize the

grandeur of nature of

which humankind is

one small part.

Think big and live small.

Barbara Ann Kipfer

The noblest art is that of making others happy. P. T. Barnum

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"Hold My Beer"

Farewell Sour Annoy

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Announced by all the

trumpets of the sky
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

I inhale and a zephyr

enters my body.

The earth tilts its axis,

changing my view

of the heavens.

Two clouds appear

in the shape of trumpets.

They part and rays

of sunlight burst in.

The sunlight speaks,

'Seek a new experience'.

 Lawren Leo

Sound drums and trumpets!

Farewell sour annoy!

For here, I hope,

begins our lasting joy.

Shakespeare

Lei Queens Link

In every woman

there is a Queen.

Speak to the Queen and

the Queen will answer.

  Norwegian Proverb

Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure,

but...

...its exact location is known

only by the dragon

that guards it.

Lawren Leo

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Love You,

Dragon & Queen

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