Monday, January 2, 2023

Ant Wishes

A L O H A From Honolulu!

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Even the wishes of a
small ant reach heaven.
Shinto Saying

His eye is on the sparrow.
Jesus

In Hawaii, one may go to
a Shinto Shrine
for a New Year Blessing
and many do. Because of the
pandemic, this will be my
first visit since 2019

For Shinto, at root, is a religion
not of sermons but of awe:
which is a sentiment that may
or may not produce words, but in
either case goes beyond them.
Joseph Campbell




Holiday Libation with my pal Zeus
in his festive home!


For last year's words belong
to last year's language;
And next year's words
await another voice.
And to make an end is
to make a beginning.
  T.S. Eliot





This chart shows Honolulu's
air quality from New Year's Eve
6 pm to 1 Jan 2023 noon.
You can see the effect of
MANY illegal aerial fireworks!*




Lest you think this is
from recent volcanic
activity, above you can
see Hawaii island [Active
Volcanoes] on the
right edge all green.
To the upper left on Oahu
you can see the yellow over
Honolulu because of the
population density here on
the "Gathering Place" isle.



Pixie does her best Janus impression,
looking back to the past
and ahead to the new year.
She tells me it will be a better one.
After all, the coming Lunar Year
is the Year of the Cat in Viet Nam
[Cousin Rabbit in China]
We closed all windows to the smoke
and endured the barrage in fine style.
[With prayers for Ukraine]

 ЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄЄ 

Wishing you ALL the Best!

Cloudia & Pixie

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* Video of illegal Honolulu
NYE fireworks shot from my window:

Sunday, January 1, 2023

Upward

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Courtesy: Dustin Ebisu
Our goal should be to live life
in radical amazement... Get up
in the morning and look at the world
in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
Abraham Joshua Heschel




Just love everyone.
God will sort
them out later.



Cease striving. Then there will be transformation. Zhuangzi




Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault




Look Up.
You may see
papayas!




To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith

ᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎ

Love You Friend,
    Clixie & Poudia
Pixie & Cloudia
              { I let Pixie do ONE thing! }

Our wish for you
on which we agree!



Saturday, December 31, 2022

What A Year

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Japanese Tea House

Our friendship is like
a cup of tea.
A special blend of
you and me.



 May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send
happiness to you. Irish Blessing



Roo Roo KangaROO!
 Never be haughty
to the humble or
humble to the haughty.
Jefferson Davis


Into The Mystic
Pursue some path,
however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk
with love and reverence. Thoreau


Many Moods of Pixie This Year
I saw my earlier selves as
different people, acquaintances
I had outgrown. I wondered
how I could ever have
been some of them. Roger Zelazny

ꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢲ

Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

Friday, December 30, 2022

Yawn Like the Sun

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy. Christine Baranski


The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. Elvis Presley 



Remembered by his friends



No king has a throne more
beautiful than a bench
covered with the
autumn leaves! Mehmet Murat ildan




The true answer to an
insult is a yawn. Mantaranjot Mangat

᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗ᱣ
Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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Thursday, December 29, 2022

Common and Enchanted

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Oh, now all common things
become uncommon and
enchanted to me.
Charles Dickens
1850


Other people have secret sorrows. Private worries that cloud their tomorrows. You don't need to know what they are. Just shine on them with your secret star.


When people would surrender
in life-or-death situations such
as a hijacking the F.B.I. tries to
find out what they did right.
"We’d ask, ‘What did we say
that made you come out?’
And the answer was always
the same: ‘I don’t remember
what you said. But I liked
the way you said it.’” Gary Norsner,
FBI








Once you label me, 
   you negate me.  
  Sören Kierkegaard 


 ꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔣ 

 Love You, 
  Cloudia & Pixie 




Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Cannot Be Copied

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The wise one who has become
accustomed to necessities knows
better how to share with others
than how to take from them,
so great a treasure of self-
sufficiency have they found. Epicurus



I like to think that the
moon is there even if
I am not looking at it.
 Albert Einstein



Who lives on illusions,
dies of disillusion.
South American Proverb



 A joyful life is an
individual creation that cannot be copied
from a recipe. Mihaly Csikszentmihaly



Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde

「。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。」

Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie



Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Significance Is Hiding

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Duck love is recognizable
in any language.
          Edmond Manning



The significance is hiding
in the insignificant.
           Appreciate everything.           
           Eckhart Tolle



What you do repeatedly
is who you are.
 Aristotle



A hair in the head is worth
two in the brush.
William Hazlitt



A duck walks into a pharmacy and says, "Do you have any chapstick?" When the pharmacist hands it to him, the duck replies, "Thanks, just put it
on my bill."

ففففففففففففٻ
Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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And who so happy,- O who, 
 As the Duck
and the Kangaroo?
              Edward Lear