Define You

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Out of suffering

have emerged
the strongest souls.
Khalil Gibran

My grandmother started walking five

miles a day when she was sixty.

She's ninety-seven now, and we

don't know where the heck she is.

     Ellen DeGeneres

The reason there's a question mark

on my front door is just in case

I forget my address.

  Leslie Nielsen

Your dreams are what define

your individuality. They have

the power to give you wings

and make you fly high.

P. V. Sindhu

Cherry Blossoms & Taiko Drum

Let us find inner freedom

in each lucky moment that

we encounter, like a

sun-basking butterfly

that finds peace on a

cherry blossom petal.

Erik Pevernagie

I’d like to divide myself

in order to see, among these

mountains, each and every

flower of every cherry tree.

Saigyo

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General Purpose Duck

A L O H A From Honolulu!

  I can sit on a boat or a river bank

and problems that seemed

insurmountable just don’t

seem that important anymore.

Van Heflin

Communicating well is being

direct in your message and

kind in your delivery.

Adam Grant

@AdamMGrant

Feral Rouen Duck

A heavyweight breed of domesticated duck.

Rouens are raised primarily for meat,

exhibition, or as general purpose ducks.

The breed originated in France

sometime before the 19th century.

Wikipedia

Every moment is the most 

important moment of your life. 

No future time is better than 

now to let down 

your guard and love.

   David Deida

 There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot. Wendell Berry

In life, it’s not where you go,

it’s who you travel with.

Charles M. Schulz

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Cloudia & Pixie

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Real Freedom Comes

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Real freedom comes

from acceptance. Only when you embrace

pain, sorrow, and confusion as

part of the human experience

can you find ease

and stillness.

Cory Muscara

@corymuscara

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa

People should eat and drink

and enjoy the fruits of their labor,

for these are gifts from God.

Ecclesiastes 3:13

Someone in your life at some time will believe

something that you know is factually untrue.

It is fruitless to argue about facts

beyond a certain point. What is helpful

is to realize that the relationship, the other person,

is more important than facts. This untruth is

Emotionally True to the them. How is

their passion & belief system wrapped up in it?

Lots of information there about your friend

that is much more important and

interesting than facts.

Encyclopedias are full of those. 

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"Pensive Coca-Cola"

Few are the formative years,

but their echoes last lifelong.

There Is A Garden

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The lure of the distant and

the difficult is deceptive.

The great opportunity is

where you are.
John Burroughs

What one loves in childhood

stays in the heart forever. Mary Jo Putney

Lantana is a genus of about 150 species

of perennial flowering plants

in the verbena family, Verbenaceae.

Wikipedia

There is a garden in every childhood,

an enchanted place where colors

are brighter, the air softer, and

the morning more fragrant

than ever again. Elizabeth Lawrence

If you carry your childhood

with you, you never

become older. Tom Stoppard

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We could never have loved

the earth so well if we had

had no childhood in it. George Eliot

Seaside Cafe

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Smell the sea and feel the sky,

Let your soul and spirit fly.

Van Morrison

 Don’t ever miss a chance

to be sun-kissed.

I would love to live

like a river flows,

carried by the surprise...

...of its own unfolding.
John O’Donohue

A beach walk is for stretching

your legs and your mind, for

looking at life with newfound eyes.

 Sandy Gingras

When you do things

from your soul,

you feel a river moving

in you, a joy.
Rumi

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We can walk forever,

walking on, walking on the moon. The Police

Sunshine Lovely

A L O H A From Honolulu!

In the autumn of your years

don't make it so that what

you look back on is regret.

Live your life now so that

whatever you do

gives some sunshine.

  Stephen Richards

Sun inspires and keeps up

it's charm whether it

rises or settles down.

Sandeep Ravidutt Sharma

Then I look at you

And the world's

alright with me

Just one look at you

And I know it's gonna be

A lovely day Bill Withers

I've got the sunshine in my hands

You've got the sunshine in your hands

We've got the sunshine in our hands

Now let it shine all over this land

    Wes Farrel

Go down by the bay,

enjoy a sun ray,

chewing a stick of hay,

and let others know

you're here to stay.

Percy Lee Anderson

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