To Do Good Is My Religion

A L O H A From Honolulu!

We must have the stubbornness

to accept our gladness in

the ruthless furnace

of this world.

      Jack Gilbert

Not a poem of begging,

but a sweeter song,
Of young troubadours,

where they don't belong.

A hat in hand

for coins to chime,
Busking dreams learning
One note at a time.

Pixie

The world is my country,
all mankind are my brethren,
and to do good
is my religion.
Thomas Paine

The ideals which have

lighted my way, and time

after time have given me new courage

to face life cheerfully have been

kindness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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Nature Notes

From The Archives

The Good.Random.Fun.

AWWW Monday

T Tuesday

Underage Drinking

Your brain will be shrinking.

Glad nothing too tricking

About being a chicken!

These are feral chickens who live free around Honolulu. I like these fellows with the bold

stripes among their black & white siblings.

I call them "The Wild Ones"

Dive Depths Deep

A L O H A From Honolulu!

You have to be in the world

to understand what the

spiritual is about, and

you have to be spiritual

in order to truly be able

to accept what the

world is about.

    Mary Oliver

Dive, on mermaid

Your spirit take flight,

From the depths of your being

emit your own light.

The beauty and meaning

you search every day

Reside in your essence

a radiant, boundless ray.

Deceptively deep, this heart we hold,

A universe of stories untold.

With every beat a truth unfolds,

Timeless tide of all sweet souls.

       Cloudia Charters

When the night is cloudy,

there is still a light that shines

on me, shine on till

tomorrow, let it be.

Lennon & McCartney 

The Beatles

Looking for peace is like

looking for a turtle with a mustache:

You won't be able to find it. But

when your heart is ready,

peace will come looking for you.

   Ajahn Chah 

"Peep pEEp"

Originality is. . .

a by-product of sincerity. Marianne Moore

Linking To

Monday Murals

Wearing The Sky

 A L O H A From Honolulu!

Be a nice incident

in someone's life

today!

Rainbows are gay space lasers.

That's why they're not straight.

Oliver Markus Malloy @ommalloy

Australian Native Red Bottle Brush

A vision sweet upon the breeze, Scattered rubies on the trees. Green and red, smashing hue, Nature's confetti in skies of blue.

Pixie

Chinese soft shell turtle Link

Turtles always strike me

as devastatingly serious.

If turtles could talk, I'd believe

everything they said. Erin O'Brien

I am wind-tawned and sun-browned.

Wearing the marks of the open. I reek of freedom. Muriel Strode

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. Robert Fripp *

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Saturday Critters

Jaipur Garden Affair

*   Robert Fripp's music for your cup of silence:

Kindness and Tenacity

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Hope will never be silent. 

Harvey Milk 

A man who changed the world

through kindness and tenacity,

making friends not enemies.

Today's "activists" could learn

MUCH from his Wise Aloha

Fiery words quick and dark

Leave a wound that lingers and sparks. Silent long breath, a moment to take, Mends the bridge

before it breaks.

Cloudia Charters

Pink! Oh Pink!
Tell me, dear friend
What do YOU think?

People often say, with pride, I'm not interested in politics. They might as well say, I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future. If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
Martha Gellhorn

I will not follow where

the path may lead, but

I will go where there is no path,

and I will leave a trail. Muriel Strode

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Love You,

Cloudia &

"Friday Girl" Pixie

[ She says to call her ' Friday Girl' today! ]

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Weekend Reflections & Street Photography
Skywatch
Feline Friday
Floral Friday
Friday Smiles

Two Smiles - Island Smiles

Flowers in your hair

Happy Friday Smiles!

And All That That We 

Love To Share 😊

Harvey Bernard Milk was born May 22, 1930 

He might have been 90 this week.

Assassinated at age 48, November 27, 1978

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Majestic Tolerance Common Enchantments

A L O H A From Honolulu!

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.
Jacob Nordby

Love is

the joy of the good,

the wonder of the wise,

the amazement of the Gods. 

     Plato 

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Only by cutting through the 

darkness of ignorance 

can we truly imagine 

the majesty of tolerance.

                Artis Lewis

At the end of the day,

what really matters is that

your loved ones are well,

you've done your best, and

that you're thankful

for all you have. A.N. Onymous *

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Rain’s Thursday art date

Little Things Thursday

I Like Thursday

Thankful Thursday

SkyWatch

Floral Friday

Friday Faceoff

Sisterface

Hawaii Designer Extraordinaire!

*on·​y·​mous ˈänəməs : bearing a name

especially : giving or bearing the author's name

an onymous article in a magazine

—opposed to anonymous

onymously adverb

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onymous

If The Liars Turned Blue

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see

the world through different eyes.
Jacob Nordby

Remind us that all of this,

every bit of it, is for love.

Keep us fiercely kind.

Laura Jean Truman

All we need, really, is

a change from a near frigid

to a tropical attitude of mind.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas 

If all the Liars turned blue

we would know just what to do.

We would not believe them

nor pay-back deceive them. 

But go our way 

as the honest folk do.

Cloudia Charters

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Thankful!