Give Yourself Grace

A L O H A From Honolulu!

OAHU Courtesy of Mike Price

The climb is always steep

just before you

reach your goal. Holley Gerth 

If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree. W. B. Yeats  

Diamond Head from the Back

A lot of hard work is

hidden behind nice things.

Ralph Lauren

Alpinia purpurata,

also known as red ginger,

is a perennial ornamental ginger plant

native to the Pacific islands. It has

showy flowers on long,

brightly colored red bracts.

The small white flower is

the true flower.

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Rude people

are never convincing.

Convincing people

are never rude.

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. George MacDonald

For J.B.

Aloha Affirmations this holiday season I am proud of what I overcame

and accomplished this year I am grateful for the wisdom

that I acquired this year I give myself grace for the way

I navigated new and unexpected things this year Every moment is an opportunity

for me to make changes in my life. Every day can be a

new season for me.

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Take The Time

A L O H A From Honolulu!

You can't control everything.

Sometimes you just need to

relax and have faith that

things will work out.

Let go a little and

just let life happen. Kody Keplinger

Honolulu Marathon FINISHER!

With Malice toward none,

with charity for all, with

firmness in the right, as

God gives us to see the right,

let us strive on to finish the

work we are in, to bind up

the nation's wounds.

   Abraham Lincoln

Brave birds still

fly through fog.

  Stephanie Shen

The comfort of
a gentle breeze,
Warm sunlight filtering

through the trees,
The laughter of
a child at play,
These simple things
can light our way.

In a challenging time,

routine pleasures, small kindnesses,

and little moments loom large.

Take the time.

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It's beginning to dawn on me

that worry is profoundly ungrateful. What a waste of all the treasures

around and within us,

of the time we have! Do not let the times we

live in dictate to us.

Let's go our own bright way and spread it around as we can.

Gaze Plays

 A L O H A From Honolulu!

Are we human because

we gaze at the stars, or

do we gaze at them

because we are human?

Neil Gaiman

Gaze steadfastly at things

which, though far away,

are yet present to the mind.

Parmenides

It is electric

when eyes meet

no matter how far!

Let go of the past,

wash away your pain, anger,

and hatred, and emerge refreshed,

renewed, and pure like the waterfall.

Shree Shambav

 

Archive Shot, N. Calif:

Scrub-Jay

How wonderful it must be

to speak the language of angels,

with no words for hate and

a million words for love.

  Eileen Elias Freeman

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Simple Glows

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Courtesy of Mike Price

Even from a dark night, 

songs of beauty can be born.

 Mary Anne Radmacher

When we recall Christmas past,

we usually find that

the simplest things ~ not the great occasions ~

give off the greatest

glow of happiness. Bob Hope

Life is made up of small pleasures.

Happiness is made up of

those tiny successes.

The big ones come too infrequently.

And if you don't collect all

these tiny successes, the big

ones don't really mean anything.

Norman Lear

The longer I live,

the more deeply I learn that

love whether we call it

friendship or family or

romance is the work of

mirroring and magnifying

each other's light. James Baldwin

The best way to cheer yourself

is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

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 Abe Levis purchased this marble soda fountain for his Philadelphia Hot Dog Restaurant
in 1895 for $30.

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Binge Rest Joy Uplifted Onward

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Life itself is the 

proper binge.

       Julia Child

Take rest;

a field that has rested

gives a bountiful crop.

    Ovid

In happy hours,
when the imagination
wakes like a wind at midnight,
and the soul
Trembles in all its leaves,
It is a joy
To be uplifted on its wings,
and listen
To the prophetic voices
in the air
That call us onward.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no persuasiveness

more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life. Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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All The Secrets

A L O H A From Honolulu!

All the secrets
of the world worth
knowing are hiding
in plain sight.
Robin Sloan

I am the dragonfly rising on the wings of unlocked dreams on the verge of magical things. Aimee Stewart

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. Julia Margaret Cameron

As the cherub is

to the angel, so the cat is

to the tiger... Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

True wisdom is

knowing what to overlook. William James 

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Saturday Critters

Jaipur Garden Affair

Asystasia gangetica

is commonly known as

Chinese violet, coromandel

or creeping foxglove.

Wikipedia