Comfort Spiral

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

That's All It Takes

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Grandmother:

"There are two wolves fighting

in each heart.

One is love,

the other is hate."

Grandchild:

"Which one wins?"

Answer:

"The one you feed the most."

Wikipedia

Truth is the structure

of everything.

And it is always good.

Lies are just truths

turned backwards.

Illusions.

Kolea Arriving from Alaska Link

Talk Simply.

And carry a big heart.

Regardless of your age

or appearance

you can be either

fun & engaging

or a big drag.

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Let's be real:

Demanding 100% Positivity is

unbalanced and doomed to failure.

Don't deny the darker side.

Just deny it control over your life.

Use, channel, master

the darker energies in the

context of your bright side.

Light is wiser than dark,

and so can be true master

navigator of life's voyage.

Internal balance IS Peace.

Create your unique personal blend.

Take care to make it True & Good.

The only place this may be

accomplished is right here;

Right Now.

Too much of our time,

we are anywhere else

than fully present.

Remember, your building block

to helping to the world

is yourself,

your behaviour & treatment

of others.

Including how you think

about them.

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You HAVE all that it takes!

Cloudia & Pixie

Where I Was 52 Years Ago Today

Links

My Corner Of The World

Wild Bird Wednesday

Monday, August 16, 2021

Oldest Therapy

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Closed \ Open Windows

If the doors of perception

were cleansed, everything

would appear as it is,

Infinite.

William Blake

People need to rediscover

the ability to find comfort

amidst discomfort.

Hanno Langenhoven

Often a star

was waiting for you to notice it.

A wave rolled toward you

out of the distant path,

or as you walked

under an open window,

a violin yielded itself

to your hearing.

All this was mission.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Cheilocostus speciosus, or crêpe ginger

The urge to transcend
self-conscious self-hood is
a principal appetite
of the soul.

Aldous Huxley
The Doors of Perception

And Of Course:

COFFEE!

Yes

Opportunities to find

deeper powers within ourselves

come when life seems

most challenging.

Joseph Campbell

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Love You - All The Best!

Cloudia & Pixie

Links:

Monday Murals
Nature Notes
From The Archives
The Good.Random.Fun.
AWWW Monday
T Tuesday

Hawaiian Voyaging Canoes

Whew! Glad I got this done before the mushrooms kicked in.

Oh Wait:

Sunday, August 15, 2021

None Has Quite Escaped My Smile

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Light Bite

Where the bright seraphim

in burning row

Their loud uplifted

angel trumpets blow.

John Milton

Greenly Relief

i thank You God for

most this amazing

day: for the leaping

greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky;

and for everything

which is natural which is

infinite which is yes

(now the ears

of my ears awake

and now the

eyes of my eyes

are opened)

Edward Estlin Cummings

(1894–1962)

This poem was originally published in Xaipe1

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1950),

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Elinor Wylie

HummingBead

No one chooses evil

because it is evil;

but only mistakes it

for happiness,

the good he seeks.

Mary Shelley

803 & 809

Morning is nature's way of saying:

Live life one more time,

make a difference,

touch one heart,

encourage one mind

and inspire one soul.

Ash Sweeney

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Love You - Best Wishes,

Cloudia & Pixie

Saturday, August 14, 2021

Most Precious

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Change your routines,

change your life.

Choose your routines,

choose your life.

Be alert for subtle

intimations to do

something

differently.

Asystasia gangetica commonly known as the
Chinese violet, coromandel or creeping foxglove.

Circumstances

prove nothing.

That's why you can't convict

with circumstantial evidence.

YOU

prove your circumstances.

Light,
God's eldest daughter,
is a principal beauty
in a building.
Thomas Fuller

The Cape chestnut (Calodendrum capense) is an African tree. (Above)
Delonix regia is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae, subfamily Caesalpinioideae native to Madagascar. It is noted for its fern-like leaves and flamboyant display of orange-red flowers over summer. Wikipedia

At Honolulu's Old Stadium Park.

Elvis, Willie Mays, & Babe Ruth All performed here!

The giant African land snail Lissachatina fulica.

Introduced to Hawaii in 1936

The intriguing placidity

from the slothful pace

of a snail is

truly very peaceful.

Our world is in need of

this calmness to pacify itself.

Munia Khan

Spathoglottis plicata, the Philippine ground orchid,
or large purple orchid is an evergreen, terrestrial

Being able to do whatever we want to do is the most precious natural gift that we possess, but doing only what we ought to do is the only adequate expression of our gratitude for it.

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski