My Friends Call It Self-Confidence

A  L  O  H  A !

"In meteorology, a virga is an observable streak or shaft of precipitation falling from a cloud that evaporates or sublimates before reaching the ground.[1] A shaft of precipitation that does not evaporate before reaching the ground is a precipitation shaft. At high altitudes the precipitation falls mainly as ice crystals before melting and finally evaporating. . ."

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Walt Disney

Perfect Palm Shadow

When the shadow of a tree is bent, 

straighten the tree, not the shadow.

African Proverb

I have great faith in fools - 

my friends call it self-confidence.

Edgar Allan Poe 

Linking To:

Shadow Shot Sunday

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Kindred Spirits

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All that we are is the result 

of what we have thought. 

The mind is everything. 

What we think, we become.

Gautama Buddha

Love is the joy of the good, 

the wonder of the wise, the 

amazement of the Gods.

Plato

Kindred spirits are not as scarce 

as I used to think

 Anne Shirley

Linking To:

Saturday Critters

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Lights

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'Meteor' Waikiki Storefront, Rimowa 

Tonight I feel like a shooting star, but 

I hope my shine will last much longer.

   Bernard Jan

Honolulu City Lights

The view from my apartment is like a giant man-made coral reef with uncountable rectangular protrusions, which bloom at night, with an array of flashing bright and tempting colours.

Robert Black

Na Pua, The Flowers

Collaboration has no hierarchy. 

The Sun collaborates with soil to 

bring flowers on the earth.

Amit Ray

A soulmate lights the fire in your sou!
Avijeet Das

Linking To:

Weekend Reflections 

Skywatch

Floral Friday
Feline Friday

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Appreciate One Another

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I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world.

Charlotte Eriksson

I learned the value of hard work by working hard. 

Margaret M. Fitzpatrick

Me Too!

Working people in places 

we patronize are not servants;

They are you and me, our

brothers our daughters.

We all work at something.

At growing as children, studying;
And in later years

we work at growing older, 
at making sense of our lives.

Perhaps one works at being a patient 

with the heroic job of achieving Health.
You have my genuine respect!

Appreciate 'service' people.

It is your own wisdom and value
that will thus appreciate.

Do not try to understand love, 

rather, stand in love and observe 

what happens around you.

 Nityananda Das

Linking To:
Thankful Thursday
Little Things Thursday

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Java Finch

A  L  O  H  A !

Character cannot be developed

in ease and quiet.

 Only through experience of trial and suffering

can the soul be strengthened,

ambition inspired, and

success achieved.

 Helen Keller 

When I use the camera, 

I often feel like I know part

 of the people or places 

I come in contact with.

Christophe Agou

'Sacred Love Only'

Love grows by giving. 

The love we give away is

the only love we keep. 

The only way to retain love

is to give it away.

Elbert Hubbard

Linking To:

Wild Bird Wednesday

wednesday signs
SkyWatch

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Opportunity

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 I have the opportunity, 

once more to right 

some wrongs, to pray for 

peace, to plant some trees, 

and sing more joyful songs.

    William Arthur Ward

I would always rather be happy than dignified.     

Charlotte Bronte

Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis 

(1856-1941)

Imagination needs moodling - 

long, inefficient, happy idling,

 dawdling and puttering.

Brenda Ueland

Linking To:

The Good.Random.Fun.

AWWW Monday

Travel Tuesday

Tuesday Treasures

Happy Tuesday

Pictorial Tuesday

My Corner Of The World

T Tuesday

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Looking

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A Perfect Morning Beach Nearby

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.     

Henry James

I love the buzz of Honolulu

We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

António R. Damásio

Many years ago, I participated in some research with psychedelics, and remember vividly looking up at a night sky and thinking that my "normal reality" was as distant as one of those many stars. Moreover,WHICH one of the many WAS it!?

Anyone can shoot chaos. But the most perceptive photographers can make compelling pictures out of uninteresting moments.

Alex Tehrani

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Looking back over the years, sure there are things I would do differently. But that's different from regret because I'm glad I do see those situations and people differently now. It's called growth and perspective. And it also makes me patient with others. Because sometimes they just don't see it yet. But they will get there like I am. The best people don't try to instruct you. They just invite you to walk along if you like. And there's something so interesting about them that you do want to walk along with them a while. . .

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