Sunday, July 20, 2025

Our Own Quiet World

 A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U

Hand to hold,
Love and warmth enfold life's truest treasure isn't gold.

Health of heart blooms It's quiet ways, In peaceful hearts On sunlit days.



Sun-dried wildflowers,
dusty and true, Each petal a story About me and you.

Yes, I'm rich, not in gold or parade, But in the glittering heap Of rich moments we've made. Our life spun of sunbeams
and a sprinkle of blues, Tapestry of moments Stitch by stitch Me and you.

Come in, sit near Let the silence unfurl, Our riches bloom best in our own quiet world. Cloudia Charters ꤛꤜꤛꤜꤛꤜꤛꤜ
Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia
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We live in our own Quiet World,
out of which we can accomplish
much of real value that
our society badly needs!

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The red blossom in photo 3:
Flower of Delonix regia Tree
commonly called flamboyant or royal poinciana.


Saturday, July 19, 2025

Shall Be

 A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U

There shall be 
eternal summer
in the grateful heart.
Celia Thaxter




Did you know that
there are over 300
words for ‘love’
in canine?
Gabrielle Zevin


I'm planting a tree to 
teach me to gather 
strength from my 
deepest roots;
to remind me to be 
open and kindhearted.
          Andrea Koehle Jones



In the dappled hush 
of morning light,
Pixie  becomes a living poem
a whisper of grace, 
curled in warmth, 
where sunlight 
and silence meet.

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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Linking To

Saturday Critters





Friday, July 18, 2025

Think Say Want and Do

 A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U


Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do. Emanuel Swedenborg





Golden Trumpet Tree Blossom





I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable…but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie



Vision is the art of seeing
what is invisible to others.
   Jonathan Swift




Say what you mean,
But don't say it mean.
   Andrew Wachter




Today I bent the truth to
be kind, and I have no regret,
for I am far surer of
what is kind than I
am of what is true.
Robert Brault




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 Love You, 
 Cloudia & Pixie 


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Few people know how to take a walk. 
The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much.
   Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thursday, July 17, 2025

Close Up Blossoms

 A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U
Makakilo Morning (Link)
Courtesy of Dustin Ebisu

In the space
Between heartbeats, My cup rests Not full nor empty- Simply holding What it holds. Clouds drift by
unconcerned Free of shape
or purpose, Simply content
to be passing.
Cloudia Charters


The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Bertrand Russell






Build a bridge by extending your hand.
Ken Poirot




Crinum is a genus of about 180 species of perennial plants that have large showy flowers on leafless stems, and develop from bulbs. They are found in seasonally moist areas, including marshes, swamps, depressions and along the sides of streams and lakes in tropical and subtropical areas worldwide.


Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. Bertrand Russell


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Links


Golden Shower Tree (R)
And rainbow shower tree.
Cassia



Rainbow shower tree
Blossoms close up

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Flower Clearly

 A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U
 In the all-too-brief time we’re on the planet, we need to pack it with all the joy, beauty, and goodness we can, and that’s true even when conditions are difficult perhaps even more so.
John Pavlovitz

 

Get a bicycle. You will certainly
not regret it, if you live. Mark Twain


If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.
Buddha





You are the poem 
I never knew how to write 
and this life is the story 
I have always wanted to tell.
 Tyler Knott Gregson


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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie


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Good night
May you dream 
of lovely things and 
wake to find them real.
May you fall asleep in peace 
and wake with joy.
Life offers you 
a second chance
called tomorrow. 
   Good night.




Tuesday, July 15, 2025

The Dark Is 0nly Light At Rest

  A L O H A  From

H O N O L U L U

Shadows 
prove the sunshine.
A tree leans east,
not for light
but memory.
Stones hold the 
warmth after morning.
The dark is only 
light at rest.
         Cloudia Charters



Somewhere, something 

incredible is waiting 

to be known.

               Carl Sagan 




Sign in a hotel: If you are unable to read, please ask the front desk for help.



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 It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.
 Amy Efaw

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie





Pope Leo XIV has made waves by introducing the first-ever “green Mass,” a liturgy dedicated to caring for creation and highlighting the Church’s moral responsibility to protect the environment. This builds directly on Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical *Laudato Si’*, which declared air pollution and environmental harm as moral issues, especially since the poor suffer most from pollution.

Monday, July 14, 2025

Happiness Clinks

A L O H A  From
H O N O L U L U

So Just Don't Bother!






Nothing is forever in this world, not even our problems. Charlie Chaplin  



Happiness is a cold drink
In a dark place
on a hot afternoon.
Sometimes that's all
the therapy you need.
Let the sun blaze outside, I'll stay here. You'll find me in the shadows Where the glasses clink.
Some worship the sun, So pretty to look out at, I’ll take the shade With a drink in hand. Cloudia Charters
& Pixie



I signed it 
MYSELF!
P I X I E

She certainly did!

𐰢𐰢𐰢𐰢𐰢𐰢𐰢𐰢𐰢𐰢𐰢𐰢




Even on a fallen leaf
blossoms find a
place to shine. Proof that beauty lingers,
even through
time's changes. At journey’s end,
life still finds a
way to bloom.