Friday, June 16, 2023

Extend Automatic

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Honolulu 7:11 pm
The more you extend
kindness to yourself, the
more it will become your
automatic response to others.
Wayne Dyer




Flanked By Red
To wear red is to be the fire
in the midst of the crowd.





Clearer Day By Day





When people look at my pictures
I want them to feel the way
they do when they want to read
a line of a poem twice.
   Robert Frank





Smart people are gracious.
Gracious people are smart. They have the confidence
and skills to communicate
without being mean or loud.

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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 "Honolulu  T.H." 
[US] Territory of Hawaii *
Pre: 1959








* The Territory of Hawaii was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900, until August 21, 1959. The territory was made up of eight islands that covered over 6,400 square miles.
The territory became the 50th state in August, 1959, following a referendum in which more than 93% of the voters approved the proposition that the territory should be admitted as a state.
Hawaii had been a sovereign constitutional monarchy until 1893, when the last Queen, Lili'uokalani, was deposed by a group of American sugar planters and missionaries, with the support of the US marines. Hawaii was an independent republic from 1894 until August 12, 1898, when it officially became a U.S. territory.

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Turn Tides Scatter

A L O H A From Honolulu!

A single poem, alone
can turn tides scatter galaxies
and burst forth with rivers
from paradise.
 Sanober Khan



Ravenala madagascariensis,
traveller's palm or East-West palm,
from Madagascar. It is not a
true palm but a member of the family
     Strelitziaceae (Bird of Paradise)



 If you want to know the truth
of who you are, walk
until not a person knows your name.
Travel is the great leveler,
the great teacher, bitter as medicine,
crueler than mirror-glass.
A long stretch of road will teach you
more about yourself than a
hundred years of quiet introspection.
 Patrick Rothfuss



I wander
from mind to mind.
     Avijeet Das






But dreams come
through stone walls,
light up dark rooms,
or darken light ones,
and their persons make their
exits and their entrances
as they please, and
laugh at locksmiths.
  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


When it is in flower
it is like it is in flame.
Wangari Maathai


Like a yawn of fire
from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed
it to flapping flame...
Francis Thompson


Joy comes in sips,
not gulps.
 Sharon Draper




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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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White Dwarf Tabebuia
Tabebuia Bahamensis


Wednesday, June 14, 2023

That's Genius To Me

A L O H A From Honolulu!

What is it about the Heavens
that draws us to look up?
For generations, centuries, (millennia?)
it seems we are drawn to
look up for answers, comfort
in times of despair, with
pleas for help, when we are
in need of grace, and
to give thanks. Bella Vespira


Some of our greatest
historical and artistic treasures we
place with curators in museums;
others we take for walks.
 Roger Caras


Here Come My Groceries!
We have a lot of supply chain
issues these days.
And if you don’t believe that,
take a walk down the
‘common sense’ aisle
of our culture.
Craig D. Lounsbrough





Self-Portrait Standing
Upon a Boulder
A boulder is a rock fragment that is
larger than 10.1 inches in diameter.










The older I get, the more I think
the only barometer for intelligence
is how kind you are. Cause it's
not easy to do. And we all
have stresses and goals and
failures and frustrations. So if
you can navigate a path in
your head to remain mindful,
kind to others, through years
of hardship and loss and the like?
That's genius to me. Josh Malerman

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Life is a ZigZag Journey

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Shadow Chevrons & The ZigZag Snake
Life is a zigzag journey,
they say, not much
straight and easy on the way,
but the wrinkles in the map,
explorers know, smooth out
like magic at the end
of where we go.
Ivan Doig


We are the boat, we are the sea,
I sail in you, you sail in me. Lorre Wyatt



Bitter melon is a tropical vine that is closely related to zucchini, squash, pumpkin, and cucumber. Bitter melon is used as both food and medicine. It is considered the most bitter among all fruits and vegetables. *




Some interesting things you see
cannot be photographed.
You just have to enjoy them
then and there.
But it is photography that has
taught you to notice.
You are a photographer with or
without a camera once
you have been initiated.


There's nothing half so pleasant
as coming home again.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster




The time to relax is when
you don't have time for it.
Sidney J. Harris



Aging is a peculiar mixture of
surrender and being indomitable.
Kindness & Happiness
travel together.

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


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Look Pixie!
It's us:
Cloudia & Cat!


* Bitter melon is used to treat diabetes, cancer, viral infections, and immune disorders. It contains a chemical that acts like insulin to help reduce blood sugar levels.
Bitter melon also has antioxidant and antimicrobial properties, which help excrete toxins from the blood and liver and heal many liver conditions. Regular consumption of bitter melon improves gut health and treats many intestinal conditions, including constipation and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
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