Last California Christmas

A  L  O  H  A !

Last Christmas:  Bare Trees Before Winter Skies

We're all just walking each other home.

Ram Das 

San Francisco Bay Rainbows allude to Hawaii 

far across the hills, valleys & sea

The quieter you become, 

the more you can hear.

   Ram Das

 Marin Hills Sundown

"I am the Spirit's janitor.... 

all I do is wipe the windows a bit, 

so you can see out for yourself."

                        Godfrey Chips - Lakota

Barman Blur @ San Rafael Joe's    Link

Here's To YOU

and to all we share!

To Your Health!

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Links

Happy Tuesday

Pictorial Tuesday

My Corner Of The World

T Tuesday

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Sunbathing at the Rainbow

A  L  O  H  A !

 Sunbathing at the Rainbow Tower 

(World's largest tile mural)

Link

The mind is its own place, and 

in itself can make a heaven of hell, 

a hell of heaven.  

    John Milton

 Gratitude

Dissolves fear.

A smile

Thins the veil

Between Heaven & Earth,

Between souls.

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Mele Kalikimaka!

Reveal Release ReBoot

A  L  O  H  A !

חנוכה סמיץ

Hanukkah Sameach! 

Happy Hanukkah!

The Festival of Lights reminds us,
that even in dark times,
light can miraculously overcome.

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Merry Christmas Week!

Let us share the gifts
of familial love
with all.

 We are so accustomed to 

disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, 

we become disguised to ourselves.

             François de La Rochefoucauld 

You pass people on the street, 

some are for you, some are not.

 Robert Henri

Who is the person walking in front of you 

on the rain-drenched sidewalk?

He is covered with an umbrella, 

and all you can see is a dark coat and 

the shoes striking the puddles.

And yet this person is the 

hero of his own life story.

He is the love of someone’s life.

And what he can do may change the world.

Imagine being him for a moment.

And then continue on your own way.

                Vera Nazarian

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Recognize Your Own Magic

A  L  O  H  A !

To be endowed with a generous mind, 

this is the best kind of nobility.

            Plato

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is

 ability to remain in one place and 

linger in one's own company.

                     Seneca 

 Shadow Art

We spend too much time 

making a living and 

too little time 

living and making.

Rachel Dillon

Celebrate YOUR 

Domestic Magic!

Links:

Saturday Critters

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Tiny Rainbow Tiny Moon, Big Hero

A  L  O  H  A !

Dare to love yourself

as if you were a rainbow

with gold at both ends.

    Aberjhani Link

Don't tell me the moon is shining; 

show me the glint of light 

on broken glass.

          Anton Chekhov

Sgt. Kuroda was a local Hawaii Guy

whose contemporaries live in our community,

some wounded like Senator Inouye.

He was also a decorated battle hero.

Many of that generation did get to 

grow old around me. 

Soon they will all be gone.

The personal connection to these

WWII events will be snapped.

Sgt. Kuroda will live on in 

his story of heroism.

The Waikiki field carrying his name.

 will carry on.

Every Day Heroes Live Everywhere

Carve your name on hearts, not 

tombstones. A legacy is etched into the 

minds of others and the stories 

they share about you.

            Shannon Alder

Links:

Weekend Reflections 

Skywatch

Floral Friday

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The Way To Go

A  L  O  H  A !

When someone spews something 

really hurtful don’t pick it up 
and hold it and rub it into 
your heart and snuggle with it 

and carry it around for a long time. 

Don’t even put energy into kicking 
it to the kerb. 

You’ve got to see it and 
step over it or go around it 

and keep on going.

                Brene Brown

The way we choose to see the world 

creates the world we see. 

                 Barry Neil Kaufman

Every year of my life 
I grow more convinced that 
it is wisest and best to fix our attention 
on the beautiful and good and dwell 
as little as possible on 
               the dark and the base.          
      Richard Cecil  

Links:

SkyWatch

Thankful Thursday

Little Things Thursday

   Good Fences    

Good Security Fencing!

Last Year - This Year

A  L  O  H  A !

Last December I lived in N. Calif.

We are always the 

same age inside.

           Gertrude Stein

This year I am Home In Honolulu

Be a friend to thyself, and 

others will be so too.

Thomas Fuller

California Has It's Beauties As Well

EGRET

Let us never know 

what old age is. 

Let us know 

the happiness time brings, 

not count the years.

                   Ausonius 

 Merganser Link

To love and be loved is to feel 

the sun from both sides.  

David Viscott

Linking To:

Wild Bird Wednesday 

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