Comfort Spiral

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Listening to the Feet of the Wind

A L O H A !

To be endowed with

a generous mind,

this is the best

kind of nobility.

Plato

Some moments drift

and some moments

make us drift!

Avijeet Dad

I close my eyes,

then I drift away,

into the magic night

I softly say. A silent prayer,

like dreamers do, then

I fall asleep to dream

my dreams of you.

Roy Orbison

At two o'clock in the morning,

if you open your window

and listen, You will hear

the feet of the Wind that

is going to call the sun.

And the trees in the Shadow

rustle and the trees in

the moonlight glisten, And

though it is deep, dark night,

you feel that the night is done.

Rudyard Kipling

We keep drifting

till we see light.

Seldom do we realize

that the light

was always there!

Avijeet Das

And Don't We Love

You, our visiting

Friends!

Pixie & Cloudia

Linking To

Saturday Critters

Camera Critters

Friday, June 12, 2020

Escape Plans

A L O H A !

For intelligent people,

action often means

escape from thought, but

it is a reasonable and

a wise escape.

Andre Maurois

Escapism isn't good or bad in itself.

What is important is what

you are escaping from and

where you are escaping to.

Terry Pratchett

Happiness is not

something ready made.

It comes from

your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Think you're escaping

and run into yourself.

Longest way round is

the shortest way home.

James Joyce

An identity would seem

to be arrived at by the way

in which the person faces

and uses his experience.

James Baldwin

Hey!

We Dig YOU!

Pixie & Cloudia

Linking To

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Masked Smiles

A L O H A !

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

There is life in a kindly reply.

Ua ola no i ka pane a ke aloha

Hawaiian saying

Heaven is not located on high,

but where the good of love is,

and this resides within a person,

wherever he or she might be.

Emanuel Swedenborg

I was always taught to

respect my elders and I've

now reached the age when I

don't have anybody to respect.

George Burns

How do we reassure with a smile
while wearing a mask?

Muffled, words must be shouted
seemingly dangerous with aerosols.

Yet, something is ALWAYS communicated.

You might enjoy looking at
this recent study showing
that even with masks
smiles are recognized
and gratefully received!
Link

Also Linking To Wonderful Things:

SkyWatch

Thankful Thursday

Little Things Thursday

Good Fences

Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

New Is Always Unfamiliar

A L O H A !

You are free to choose,

but you are not free to

alter the consequences

of your decisions.

Ezra Taft Benson

A genuine leader is not

a searcher for consensus

but a molder of consensus.

Martin Luther King Jr

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing.

That's the time and place when

you can suppose that all the

people you meet are nice.

It's dream time.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Birds are a miracle because

they prove to us there is a

finer, simpler state of being

which we may strive to attain.

Douglas Coupland

Manu O Ku Link

Official Bird of Honolulu City & County

Our birthdays are feathers

in the broad wing of time.

Jean Paul Richter

Every moment is a golden one

for those who have the vision

to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

2009 Merrie Monarch Men Kahiko Winners - Ke Kai O Kahiki

Smile Behind the Mask

A L O H A !

Wherever you go,

no matter what the weather,

always bring your own sunshine.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

It is the artist's business

to create sunshine

when the sun fails.

Romain Rolland

If you want to see the sunshine,

you have to weather the storm.

Frank Lane

Java Finch

The world goes up and

the world goes down,

the sunshine follows the rain;

and yesterday's sneer

and yesterday's frown

can never come over again.

Charles Kingsley

Those who bring sunshine

to the lives of others cannot

keep it from themselves.

James Matthew Barrie

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Love You,

cloudia & Pixie

Linking To

Wild Bird Wednesday

Monday, June 8, 2020

And You Lift Me

A L O H A !

I'll lift you

and you lift me,

and we'll both

ascend together.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The two most

powerful warriors are

patience and time.

Leo Tolstoy

Stealing A Drink

In wine there is wisdom,

in beer there is freedom,

in water there is bacteria.

Benjamin Franklin

Every second is

of infinite value.

Goethe

The future has a way

of arriving unannounced.

George F. Will

When I was a kid, you could walk into Independence Hall in Philadelphia - the place where the USA was born - and touch the Liberty Bell. It was big, cold, and had a crack in it. The crack had metal repairs; Round pieces of metal wedged in to hold the bell together.

Independence Hall was at that time a dusty old building that had simply endured as the city grew around it, not yet a polished treasure. Especially in that day, the spirit of our founders hovered everywhere around a school child.

And the bell. You could touch the bell with your own hands. No glass. It was right there to spend a moment with: the bell that proclaimed liberty throughout the land. It has a long, jagged crack. It is obviously not perfect.

But nothing human is.

Together we build an always more perfect union.

Police are not the enemy - nor is the very American

yearning to be better, to shine on a hill. . . .

proclaiming Liberty. . . . everywhere. . .

to ALL!

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

Linking To

Monday Murals

Our World Tuesday