Living Inside Your Hope

A L O H A From Honolulu!

You can transfigure negativity

by turning it toward the

light of your soul.

John O'Donohue

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire

Keep going. Your hardest times

often lead to the greatest

moments of your life.

Keep going.

     Henry Ward Beecher 

What hurts you, blesses you.

Darkness is your candle.

    Rumi

Challenges make you discover

things about yourself that

you never really knew.

   Cicely Tyson

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Cloudia & Pixie

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The very least you can do

in your life is figure out

what you hope for. And

the most you can do is

live inside that hope.

Not admire it from a distance

but live right in it,

under its roof.

 Barbara Kingsolver

Continual

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Peace is not 

something you wish for, 

it is something you make, 

something you are, 

something you do, and 

something you give away.

  Robert Fulghum

The wound is the place

where the Light

enters you. Rumi

Just as one candle lights another

and can light thousands

of other candles, so

one heart illuminates another

and can illuminate thousands

of other hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

A good conscience is

a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

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No Matter the Time

 A L O H A From Honolulu!

No matter the time

or distance between us,

you remain a vibrant thread

woven into the fabric of we.

Each memory, from the

scent of wet leaves to

your beautiful laughter,

echoes in my heart. 

Sharing this life ignites

a spark within us both.

Know that you are always

a happy presence

in my thoughts.

May our prayers reach

to embrace across

the waves! 

   

When you feel a peaceful joy,

that's when you are near truth. Rumi

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Pixie & Cloudia

Peace on earth will come to stay

when we live Christmas every day.

   Helen Steiner  

Translucent Ephemera

A L O H A From Honolulu!

I like ephemera

And music overheard

Things of the moment

Happening in the wind.

Vignettes becoming

And passing away.

Bustle of the city streets

Bird song bright and gay

Waves at beach-side

Each one unique then gone

Appearing all the same

Variations on a song.

Opuntia tuna is a species of cactus

The things of the world knew

so much more than we did

and lived them more truly.

The thorn trees had no grief or fear.

The constellations didn't fight or

hold themselves back, nor did

the translucent hook of the moon.

Everything was momentary and endless.

Paula McLain

The most important thing

about translucent people is

that their life has been deeply

transformed by an awakening.

   Arjuna Ardagh

I think the main way that

somebody would know they're

translucent is that their life

has become more about the

embodiment of Spirit than about

acquisition, and that may be

something that creeps up on you.

Arjuna Ardagh

...neither bashful nor forward,

with a soul that seemed submerged,

but in a radiant moistness.

Opalescent on the surface but

translucent in her depths ...

Vladimir Nabokov

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Pixie & Cloudia

Santa Claus is anyone

who loves another and

seeks to make them happy;

who gives himself...

 ...in every gift

that he bestows.

Edwin Osgood Grover

🎄 Love Weighs More Than Gold

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The joy of brightening
other lives becomes for us
the magic of the holidays.
W.C. Jones

It is Christmas in the heart

that puts Christmas in the air.

   W.T. Ellis

Christmas is forever,

not for just one day.

For loving, sharing, giving,

are not to put away.

   Norman Wesley Brooks

May you never be

too grown up to

search the skies

on Christmas Eve.

I will honor Christmas

in my heart, and try to

keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

Christmas is doing

a little something

extra for someone.

Charles M. Schulz

Every time we love,

every time we give,

it’s Christmas.

Dale Evans Rogers

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Wish EACH of YOU

Magical Healing Holidays

of WONDER!

Warmest Aloha Friend

        Cloudia

As You Are - As You Will

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Rainbow Beach, Rainbow Beach

where worries cease to be, Footprints in the shoreline,

washed by ebbing sea. Laughter floats on laughter,

carried on the breeze, As children chase the rainbows,

painted through the trees.

Play is our brain's favorite

way of learning

Diane Ackerman.

One way to get the

most out of life is

to look upon it

as an adventure.

William Feather

 Christmas magic is silent.

You don't hear it

- you feel it,

you know it,

you believe it. Kevin Alan Miller  

For one moment quit being sad.

Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you. Rumi

Appear as you are.

Be as you appear. Rumi

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Cloudia & Pixie

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Delicious Refreshing

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Haiku Plantation, Oahu
Courtesy of Kathy Edwards

 Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin

The first duty of love

is to listen.

Paul Tillich

Pygmy water lily,  Nymphaea tetragona

You are not a

drop in the ocean. 

You are the 

entire ocean 

in a drop.

       Rumi

Those who love deeply
never grow old;
they may die of old age,
but they die young.
Ben Franklin

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Beneath these bruised

and brooding skies,

Cloud armadas shift and collide,

Let your heart take flight and soar,

On wings of dreams forevermore.