Cabinet of Curious Minor Wonders

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Three Sisters in a Field of Butterflies


" I have never been 
especially impressed
 by the heroics of people
 who are convinced they are 
about to change the world. 
I am more awed by those 
who struggle to make
 one small difference 
after another. "

Ellen Goodman

Leaf Curls

" Small change, small wonders -
 these are the currency 
of my endurance 
and ultimately of my life. "


Barbara Kingsolver 

 T O M B 

" Take away love 
and our earth
 is a tomb. "


Robert Browning

" Remember 
the quiet wonders. 
The world has 
more need of them 
than it has 
for warriors. "


Charles de Lint



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We are the warriors
of wonder,
You & Me!
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Deeper Meaning of HULA

" Hawaii is paradise.

 It sounds cheesy to say it,

 but there's music in the air there. " 

Bruno Mars, Born & Bred 

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The Universal Solvent

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The universal solvent

is full-strength

Calm, 

Shower Tree, Rainbow Variety

applied with

Panacea of Patience.

Harbor Pilot & Coastguard

" Be

in the storm,

but don't let

the storm

be in you. "

Joel Olsteen

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& Pixie

Hikmet

A  L  O  H  A !

" Don't live in the world

 as if you were renting

 or here only for the summer,

 but act as if it was

 your father's house. . .

" Believe in seeds, earth,

 and the sea,

 but people above all.

Love clouds, machines,

 and books,

but people above all."  

Nazim Hikmet, 

Turkish poet, 1902-1963

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Happiness for Dummies

in 5 Quotes!

A  L  O  H  A 

" The one serious conviction to have

 is that nothing is to be

taken too seriously. "

Samuel Butler

" Suffering becomes beautiful

 when anyone 

bears great calamities

 with cheerfulness, 

not through insensibility 

but through greatness

 of mind. "

Aristotle

" YOU

 are one of a kind. 

You are lucky enough to have 

something that

makes you different 

from everyone else. 

Embrace your individuality. 

Self-worth comes from one thing:

 thinking that you are worthy. 

So appreciate

what it feels like 

underneath your own skin. 

You are amazing just the way

you are. "

 Melchor Lim

"Always be yourself...

                                   unless you suck. "

Joss Whedon

"True feeling justifies 

whatever it may cost."

 May Sarton

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Song to Birds

A L O H A !

 

" Fly silly seabird

No dreams can possess you

No voices can blame you

For sun on your wings

My gentle relations

Have names they must call me

For loving the freedom

Of all flying things

My dreams with the seagulls fly

Out of reach out of cry -

I came to the city

And lived like old Crusoe

On an island of noise

In a cobblestone sea

And the beaches were concrete

And the stars paid a light bill

And the blossoms hung false

On their store window trees

My dreams with the seagulls fly

Out of reach out of cry-

Out of the city

And down to the seaside

To sun on my shoulders

And wind in my hair

But sandcastles crumble

And hunger is human

And humans are hungry

For worlds they can't share

My dreams with the seagulls fly

Out of reach out of cry -

I call to a seagull

Who dives to the waters

And catches his silver-fine

Dinner alone

Crying where are the footprints

That danced on these beaches

And the hands that cast wishes

That sunk like a stone

My dreams with the seagulls fly

Out of reach Out of cry "

Writer: Joni MITCHELL
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 
Joni Mitchell/Crazy Crow Music/Siquomb Music

      

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Some people oooh & ahhh over birds.

I feel that way when I see

Y O U

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Fishy Meditations

 A  L  O  H  A ! 

A Cloud Fish


" Could this be

 an act of cod? "

Colin Mochrie

Poisson clown

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" Everything

was rainbow, rainbow, 

rainbow!

And I let the fish 

go. "

Elizabeth Bishop

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Admirer of Fish

" Most people think 

I count fish, but I don't.

 I look at them. 

I look at their souls

and read their dreams 

and then I let them into

 my dreams. "

Axel Blackmar

Arizona Dream (1992)

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