Monday, December 2, 2024

Linger


A L O H A From Honolulu!

 Changing the world 
begins with the
very personal process 
of changing yourself,
the only place you can
begin is where you are, 
and the only time you
can begin is always now. 
  Gary Zukav




California Oak in Marin County CA

Gratitude makes sense of
our past, brings peace
for today, and creates
a vision for tomorrow.
    Melody Beattie





Kind words not only 
lift our spirits
in the moment 
they are given, 
but they can 
linger with us 
over the years. 
                 Joseph B. Wirthlin






When you are in alignment
 with who-you-really-are, 
you cannot help but uplift 
those with whom 
you come into contact.
                     Abraham-Hicks





Cherish forever what
makes you unique, 'cuz
you're really a yawn
if it goes.
    Bette Midler



And we are put on this earth
 a little space
 that we might learn
 to bear the beams 
of love 
William Blake



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Sip and Shoe 

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Yellow Bells


Aloha From Honolulu!

Gentle waves are painting
Stories on the shore,
Foamy lines that whisper tales
Of all that came before.




The heart is the only
broken instrument
 that works.
    T. E. Kalem




Tecoma stans
Yellow Esperanza,
Trumpet Bush, Trumpet Flower,
Yellow Bells, Yellow Elder



 Eternity is in love
 with the productions
 of time.
 William Blake 





 People will forget
what you said.
People will forget
what you did.
But people will never forget
how you made them feel.
   Maya Angelou


 ᯽᯽᯽᯽᯽᯽᯽᯽᯽᯽᯽ 


Love You,
 Pixie & Cloudia

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One joy scatters
a hundred griefs.
      Chinese proverb

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Uncut Diamonds

Aloha From Honolulu!

In a world like ours,

all we’ve got to be -
 is the warmth of
the morning sun.
  Michael Bassey Johnson


Shell Ginger & Bee

To make a prairie
it takes a clover
and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
      Emily Dickinson




Little Green Heron

Birds sing after a storm; 
why shouldn't people feel 
as free to delight in 
whatever sunlight 
remains to them?
         Rose Kennedy



Diamond Head Light

Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value
will never be known.
Improve them
and they will become
the brightest gems
in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


With a good friend
the hours are short.
   Basque proverb 

𐇧 𐇧 𐇧 𐇧 𐇧 𐇧 𐇧
Love You,
Pixie, Cloudia
& the Bee

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 Linking To
Saturday Critters



When the bee comes
to your house,
let her have beer;
you may
want to visit the
bee's house some day.
   Congo Proverb


Friday, November 29, 2024

The Art Of Letting It Be

 Aloha From Honolulu!

In quiet can be found 
The art of letting it be.
Acceptance blooms wide
When boundaries dissolve.
Finding the courage
to live free.

There is magic
in the flow.
Richness of
what simply is.
Embrace the world
as it comes.
Harmony unfolds
In a quiet heart.
      Cloudia Charters 





Do All the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can.
  John Wesley 
(Uncertain Attribution)




Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. Martin Buxbaum





Galphimia gracilis,
native to eastern Mexico.
Widely cultivated in warm regions throughout the world, often
under the common names
gold shower or shower-of-gold,
slender goldshower or
sometimes thryallis.
Wikipedia



2012
Give thanks today for the
compassionate people; the
lovers, helpers, givers, and
healers, who see more than
just themselves, who move
through the world with
open hands and
not closed fists.
Thank You, Keep Going.
It Matters
John Pavlovitz


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

😸



I have been cast aside,
but I sparkle in the darkness.
I have been slain, but live on
in the rivers of history.
I seek no conquest,
no wealth, no power,
no revenge;
I seek only discovery
Of the illimitable heights and
depths of my own being.
           Pauli Murray
                    “Prophecy”




Thursday, November 28, 2024

Hope Extinguisher of Despair


Aloha From Honolulu!



The early morning
has gold
in its mouth.
Benjamin Franklin




With a little seed of
imagination you can
grow a field of hope.
    African Proverb





Hope is the
extinguisher of despair.
Richard Mwebesa







 To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in
a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. William Blake 





A woman whose
smile is open 
and whose expression 
is glad 
has a kind of beauty 
no matter what
she wears.
                              Anne Roiphe



ᱜᱳᱜᱳᱜᱳᱜᱳ

Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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It is a beautiful and blessed world we live in...






...and while life lasts,
to lose the enjoyment of it is a sin. A.W. Chambers

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Taste Embrace


Aloha From Honolulu!


Embrace the beauty
Of this day!
Really taste it 
Before it slips away.






Keep Palm
And Carry Frond!
    Pixie





Hope begins in the dark, 
the stubborn hope that if 
you just show up 
and try to do
the right thing, 
the dawn will come.
   Anne Lamot






Some believe it is only
great power that can
hold evil in check, but
that is not what I have found.
It is the small everyday deeds
of ordinary folk that keep
the darkness at bay.
Small acts of kindness and love. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie


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Linking To

To me, photography is
an art of observation.
It’s about finding something
interesting in an ordinary place…
I’ve found it has little to do
with the things you see
and everything to do with
the way you see them.
Elliott Erwitt