Mr. Otis Doesn't Regret

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This is Otis.
He lives with his human companion at Waimanalo, Oahu
Photo courtesy of Jeff Gunther

" Better to be without logic

than without feeling."

Charlotte Bronte

" There are no foreign lands.

It is the traveler only

who is foreign. "

Robert Louis Stevenson

 “Many of us 

crucify ourselves 

between two thieves 

- regret for the past 

and fear of the future.”

Fulton Oursler

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Let's all resolve

to be More

like Otis!

Be good to yourself

Here & Now;

Pass it on -

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Joy Scatter

A  L  O  H  A !

 "I am a Marxist-

-of the Groucho tendency."

        Anonymous

"The best way 

to get approval 

is not to need it."

Hugh Macleod

 "Sleep 

is when your soul 

recharges your body."

 Deepak Chopra

 "I'm not a vegetarian 

because I love animals.

 I'm a vegetarian 

because I hate plants."

        A. Whitney Brown

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Met an Old Man Walking

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I met an old man walking

here in Waikiki

he had just played several

games of tennis;

He told me that

he was over

 90 years.

He told me

that most of his friends

succumbed to beliefs,

conventional ones

about aging.

"One's 70's are the key.

Most people really freak out;

They believe all that stuff

and they follow the plan

down hill.

But if you keep moving

and get past those age 70+ 

bugaboos

it gets better and better."

Thanks, I said.

"Just keep moving - that's all,"

Says he.

And so I do.

How about

Y O U ?

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Cabinet of Curious Minor Wonders

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Three Sisters in a Field of Butterflies


" I have never been 
especially impressed
 by the heroics of people
 who are convinced they are 
about to change the world. 
I am more awed by those 
who struggle to make
 one small difference 
after another. "

Ellen Goodman

Leaf Curls

" Small change, small wonders -
 these are the currency 
of my endurance 
and ultimately of my life. "


Barbara Kingsolver 

 T O M B 

" Take away love 
and our earth
 is a tomb. "


Robert Browning

" Remember 
the quiet wonders. 
The world has 
more need of them 
than it has 
for warriors. "


Charles de Lint



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We are the warriors
of wonder,
You & Me!
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Deeper Meaning of HULA

" Hawaii is paradise.

 It sounds cheesy to say it,

 but there's music in the air there. " 

Bruno Mars, Born & Bred 

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The Universal Solvent

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The universal solvent

is full-strength

Calm, 

Shower Tree, Rainbow Variety

applied with

Panacea of Patience.

Harbor Pilot & Coastguard

" Be

in the storm,

but don't let

the storm

be in you. "

Joel Olsteen

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& Pixie

Hikmet

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" Don't live in the world

 as if you were renting

 or here only for the summer,

 but act as if it was

 your father's house. . .

" Believe in seeds, earth,

 and the sea,

 but people above all.

Love clouds, machines,

 and books,

but people above all."  

Nazim Hikmet, 

Turkish poet, 1902-1963

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