Better By Far

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Better by far you should forget

and smile than that you should

remember and be sad.

     Christina Rossetti

I love those who can

smile in trouble.

Leonardo da Vinci

Instead of wondering

when your next vacation is,

maybe you ought to set up a life

you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin

A face without a smile

is like a flower

not yet blooming!

Cloudia

Anyone can smile

on their best day.

I like to meet a man who

can smile on his worst.

Lauren Graham *

Smile, and let the

world wonder why.

Minnie Mouse 

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Pixie & Cloudia

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Friday Smiles

All the statistics

in the world

can’t measure the

warmth of a smile.

    Chris Hart

*  She says "man" because

most women ROUTINELY do this!

Dream Tossing

A L O H A From Honolulu!

To live is so startling it 

leaves little time 

for anything else.

         Emily Dickinson

 Get lost in love, and

hate won’t find you.

Pixie

Peregrina

The way you alchemize a

soulless world into a sacred world

is to treat everyone as if they

are sacred until the sacred

in them remembers.

      Sarah Durham

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Anais Nin

I was very fortunate to play sports.

All the anger in me went out.

I had to do what I had to do.

If you stay angry all the time, then

you really don’t have a good life 

Willie Mays

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Cat's Advice

 A L O H A From Honolulu!

Eyes that hold

the morning sun, World unseen

by adults has begun. Child mind is a

canvas bright, Where dreams are born

and take to flight -

- Colors dance

with joyful glee, A house! A horse!

Flowers! A tree! Purple leaves

before a sky of lime, Worlds unbound

by space and time. -

- In glowing light

this heart so true, Explores magic creation

just for you. Oh, let them paint

with messy glee, This world they'll craft

for you and me.

The most precious gift

of heart alight, Serves boundless sparks

of pure delight.

Cloudia Charters

I promise you, friend: You can handle What Is; But never tangle with What If.       

Pixie    

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Pixie & Cloudia

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Obscure Craze of the Roman Empire

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The greatest enemy
of positive social change
is cynicism about
what can be changed.
Robert Reich

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

California Quail

Photo taken in Calif.

A fresher gale begins

to wave the wood,

and stir the stream, sweeping

with shadowy gust the

fields of corn; while the quail

clamors for his running mate.

James Thomson

Be both soft and wild.

Just like the Moon.

Or the storm. Or the sea.

   Victoria Erickson

Don't waste time on nonsense.

Nor be taken in by conjurors and

hoodoo artists with their talk.

Don't be obsessed with 

quail-fighting

or other crazes like that.

Marcus Aurelius

 

Quail Fighting?

Are they especially pugnacious birds?

More good advice from the 

Master and one time Roman Emperor. 

But chosen chiefly for the echo to

the Quail above.

And so another day in

Blogland!

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Cloudia & Pixie

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A Lion Dance Troop 

Break And Breathe

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The whole body

reacts to color.
If you were to

walk into an
all-neon-pink room,

it would be difficult

not to react.
I think it is a unified,

human thing to feel

color with everything.
It is like standing next to

a bass speaker plugged

into your eyeballs.
Jim Drain

Friendship is the only cement
that will ever hold

the world together.
Woodrow Wilson

Sometimes you have to
take a break and breathe
before you can
keep moving forward.
Kayla Panchisin

The highest form of love
is to be the protector of
another person's solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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Pixie & Cloudia

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Of Inconceivable Mystery

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Full Strawberry Moon

21 June 24

OAHU, Hawaii, Courtesy: Dustin Ebisu

There is something haunting

in the light of the Moon.

It has all the dispassionate-ness

of a disembodied soul and

something of its inconceivable

mystery.

Joseph Conrad

Honolulu Chinatown

If home is where you can be

yourself then the more you

can be yourself everywhere.

The more at home you will

be in the world. John Sarris

Rainbow steals

the window scene,

Her splashy joy

a vibrant sheen.

Aged Banana Leaf

Stand forth, my soul,

and grip thy woe,

Buckle the sword

and face thy foe.

What right hast thou

to be afraid

When all the universe

will aid?

  Angela Morgan

When We Were Four

 Know that you are 

the perfect age. 

Each year is special 

and precious, for you 

shall only live it once. 

Be comfortable 

with growing older. 

Louise Hay

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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