A Cool Place

A L O H A From Honolulu!

By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy. Buddha 

I love the forest.

It is the place where you

hear yourself better. Fahadh Faasil

A dream is a voyage

to the city of

your treasure. Michael Bassey Johnson

How many people

can I get into

one beach photo?

How many are on 

that ship?

There is no voyage

like the vision

of becoming.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Cactus Flower

Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris

When you dance,

your purpose is not to

get to a certain place

on the floor.

It's to enjoy each

step along the way.

  Wayne Dyer

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Monday Murals 
Jaipur Garden Affair

Mural "The Arrival"

Carl Pao and Solomon Enos, 2010

Acrylic on panels

Sheraton Waikiki, main lobby

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Enough Into More

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Gratitude is happiness

doubled by wonder.

G.K. Chesterton

Enough is a feast.

Buddhist proverb

If the only prayer

you ever say in your life

is 'thank you,'

it will be enough.

  Meister Eckhart

The deepest craving

of human nature is the

need to be appreciated.

William James

Gratitude turns what we have

into enough, and more.

It turns denial into acceptance,

chaos into order, confusion

into clarity...it makes sense of

our past, brings peace for today,

and creates a vision for tomorrow.

  Melody Beattie

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Love You,

  Pixie & Cloudia

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Saturday Critters

I’d  Rather Be Birding

Me And My Pigeon

Knowledge V Wisdom

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Hope is being able to see

that there is light despite

all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu

Knowledge is realizing that

the street is one way;

wisdom is looking in

both directions anyway. Albert Einstein

Heliconia Champneiana "Maya Gold"

Where did love begin?

What human being looked at

another and saw in their face

the forests and the sea?

Was there a day, exhausted

and weary, dragging home food,

arms cut and scarred, that you saw yellow flowers and,

not knowing

what you did, picked them

because I love you?

In the fossil record of

our existence, there is

no trace of love. Jeanette Winterson

A street that you have

never visited is a book

that you have never read! 

   Mehmet Murat ildan

There are only two kinds of faces: Sincere and insincere!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Floral Friday

Weekend Reflections & Street Photography

Skywatch

Feline Friday

Friday Bliss

Friday Faceoff

Simple Presence

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Where the Palms Are Higher Than the Clouds

Be willing to

be a beginner

every morning.

Meister Eckhart

It's funny how 

so much of 

"Finding Yourself"

in adulthood is simply

getting back to

who you were and

what you loved

as a child.

@okay_zuri

Those who cling to

perceptions and views

wander the world

offending people.

Buddha

In the Sun,

I feel as one.

Kurt Cobain

 By accepting yourself

and fully being

what you are, your

simple presence can

make others happy.

Buddha & Pixie

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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SkyWatch

Thankful!

Little Things Thursday

I Like Thursday

Somewhere

A L O H A From Honolulu!

If you keep hope alive,

it will keep you alive. C. Clare

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

Beverly Nichols

A beautiful lady is

an accident of nature.

A beautiful old lady is

a work of art. Louis Nizer

You only need

one ray of light to

chase all the

shadows away. Fredrik Backman

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

Secretly Sunny

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Photographed Photographer

There is one thing

the photograph

must contain,

the humanity

of the moment. Robert Frank

crown flowers as yet unopened

If the present is

left unopened, now, it is closed.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Calotropis gigantea,

the crown flower,

is a species of Calotropis native to Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, China, Pakistan, Nepal, and tropical Africa.

It is a large shrub growing

to 4 m tall.

     Wikipedia

 Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) a

small North American thrush

And when he sings to you,

Though you're deep in blue,

You will see a ray of

light creep through,

Somewhere there's a

bluebird of happiness.

Life is sweet, tender

and complete,

when you

find the

bluebird of happiness.

Edward Heyman & Harry Parr Davies

               1934

I feel how much

I like this place and

could willingly waste

my time in it and feel

myself continually

coming to life.

 William Shakespeare

It's always sunny

above the clouds.

Always.

Every day on earth-

every day

I have ever had-

was secretly sunny,

after all.

Caitlin Moran

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Love You

 Pixie & Cloudia

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Travel Tuesday 

Happy Tuesday 

Pictorial Tuesday 

Tuesday Treasures

My Corner Of The World

Wild Bird Wednesday

Rain’s Thursday art date

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Nature Thursday

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Rare High Surf

On Hawaii's South shores

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Oahu's NORTH Shore is famous for surf,

But THIS is South Shore Waikiki yesterday.

Shot on my normal morning walk.

Sometimes in the morning,

when it's a good surf,

I go out there, and

I don't feel like

it's a bad world.

   Kary Mullis

Now, as we stand

three feet apart

and stare at each other,

I feel the full distance

that comes with spending

so much time apart,

a moment filled with

the electricity of a

first meeting and the

uncertainty of strangers.

 Marie Lu

Also A MAJOR GOOD Mango Season!

People are too complicated

to have simple labels.

   Philip Pullman

All the air you'll ever need

is in the boredom of your life.

But the magic is in

the miniscule mundane.

Jason Reynolds

Never love anyone

who treats you

like you're ordinary.

Oscar Wilde

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You Friends

Make Us Feel Special

We Love You Back,

    Pixie & Cloudia

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