Mystery Refresh

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Look and think before

opening the shutter.

The heart and mind are

the true lens of the camera.

Yousuf Karsh

A smile will gain you
ten more years of life.
Chinese Proverb

There's something magical

that happens when people

eat from the same pot.

The family meal is really

the nursery of democracy.

It's where we learn to share;

it's where we learn to

argue without offending.

Michael Pollan

The passage into mystery

always refreshes.

We are lightened when our

gifts rise from pools

we cannot fathom.

Then we know

they are inexhaustible. Lewis Hyde

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La Peña Cultural Center or

La Peña for short, is a

multicultural center founded in

1975 in Berkeley, California.

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Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year
find you a better cat.
Benjamin Franklin

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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No Time To Rush

A L O H A From Honolulu!

I am still on my zigzag way,

pursuing the diagonal

between reason and heart.

Ruskin Bond

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. E.S. Boutons

I thank you God for this

most amazing day, for the

leaping greenly spirits of trees,

and for the blue dream of sky

and for everything which is

natural, which is infinite,

which is yes. e. e. cummings

Very often a change of self

is needed more than

a change of scene.

A. C. Benson

"Faces Off"

That brick that you're standing on,

that foundation that

you're standing on,

there's a brick in there

that was placed

by someone you never knew,

sort of a

faceless possibility, but

you're there now.

You have an opportunity to

put your own brick in there. 

    Christopher Jackson

Hurry!

I never hurry.

I have no time to hurry. Igor Stravinsky

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Cloudia & Pixie

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A L O H A From Honolulu!

No my friend, darkness

is not everywhere,

for here and there I find

faces illuminated from within;

paper lanterns among the dark trees.

  Carole Borges

The only person

you will ever have to convince

is yourself and you do that

in every moment... Greg Catchur Ljw

If you join the dance circle

you have to dance.

 Greek Saying

Hope is a helium balloon.

It is a wish lantern set out

into the dark sky of night.

 Sharon Weil

To make mistakes is human;

to stumble is commonplace;

to be able to laugh

at yourself is maturity. Willam Arthur Ward

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A L O H A From Honolulu!

You don’t take a photograph.

You ask quietly to borrow it.

 Unknown

Big things are often

just small things

that are noticed. Markus Zusak

Great wisdom is generous;

petty wisdom is contentious.

Zhuangzi

Extraordinary afflictions

are not always punishment,

but sometimes the trial

of extraordinary graces.

Matthew Henry

𐹼𐹼𐹼𐹼𐹼𐹼𐹼𐹼𐹼𐹢

Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

Rebirth Renew

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Birthing is never easy

or without pain,

be it a universe, a child,

or a fresh start in life.

Contraction precedes expansion.

Darkness comes before dawn.

Joy follows pain. This is

the way of things.
John Mark Green

Even the Sun

gets tired of rising,

but does it out of

love for the Earth...

Seja Majeed

For each of us,

there comes a time when

we must awaken and become

what we were born to become.
Seth Adam Smith

Break open your heart

so that I may enter it. Kamand Kojouri

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Pixie & Cloudia

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Each day the world is born anew

for one who takes it rightly.

James Russell Lowell

Happy Is Better

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Be very careful

in habitual thinking.

Your thoughts

run your life...

Red bog Lily

...Don’t ever say what isn't true. Always care about what is right...

...Don't even waste thought on lies. Just stay away

from them completely. Proverbs 4:23-27  

Phoenix roebelenii, with common names

of dwarf date palm, pygmy date palm,

miniature date palm or robellini palm,

is a species of date palm native to

southeastern Asia, from southwestern China,

northern Laos and northern Vietnam.

The Latin specific epithet roebelenii honours

the orchid collector Carl Roebelen.

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Anything is possible
with sunshine
and a little pink.
Lilly Pulitzer

Being happy is better

than being king.

  African Proverb

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Enjoy a drink at the 8 Ball!

I like the neon cocktail glass.

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