Imagined

A L O H A From Honolulu!

True life is lived

one moment

at a time. Karen Sather 

In the word scent,

is the S or the C silent?

The child is in me still

and sometimes

not so still.

  Fred Rogers

It's quite possible that

things will turn out better

than you ever imagined!

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A L O H A From Honolulu!

Dreams are illustrations...

from the book your soul

is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

Happiness is like a butterfly,

which when pursued is

just beyond your grasp,

but which, if you sit

down quietly, it may

alight upon you.

      Hawthorn

Thou canst not stir a flower

Without troubling of a star...

  Francis Thompson 

    "The Mistress of Vision," c.1897

Trust yourself. Create the kind 

of self that you will be 

happy to live with all your life.   

Golda Meir

Over every mountain

there is a path, 

although it may not be

seen from the valley. 

    Theodore Roethke

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Wisdom Lingers

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Ponder the difference

between a mindset

and a mind free

to unlock your power.

Beautify your inner dialogue.

Beautify your inner world

with love light

and compassion.

Life will be beautiful.

Amit Ray

This poem has been

called obscure.

I refuse to believe that

it is obscurer than pity,

violence, or suffering.

But being a poem,

not a lifetime, it

is more compressed.

  Dylan Thomas

There are 100 ways

to react to

spilled milk.

Your chance to

show love. Dr Margaret Aranda

Knowledge comes

but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Not Stiff or Brat

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Be like a palm tree by

the ocean that endures

the greatest winds

because it knows how

to gracefully bend.

Stephen Kendrick

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"The Taoist model

spiritual life

after a plant.

A living plant is

tender and pliant,

while a dead plant is

stiff and hard;

One who is with the Tao is

also tender and pliant,

while one who departs from

the Tao is stiff and hard.

The plant kingdom

is a quiet kingdom

that sleeps in beauty;

Taoist quietude is the spiritual

condition for regeneration.

A plant grows at its own pace.

The Taoist allows events to

unfold according to their

inner rhythms; (s)he acts by

non-action (wu-wei), which

is acting with, not against,

the inner rhythms of things.

A plant is always

renewing itself;

the Taoist celebrates

perpetual childhood."

-  Ellen M. Chen, 

The Tao Te Ching:

A New Translation

with Commentary, 1989

What does it mean if someone is a stiff?

When a person is stiff, they are

artificial and unrelaxed — 

unless they're "scared stiff"

or "bored stiff."

A regular guy is

a working stiff.

Another colloquial meaning of stiff is

"to underpay, or to cheat.”

Also, a stiff drink has a lot of alcohol.

A dead body is sometimes

called a stiff, but it's rude.

stiff - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

The most sophisticated

people I know -

inside they are

all children. Jim Henson

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My Crown Is A Ship

Stop the flow

of your words.

Open the window

of your heart and

let the spirit speak.

     Rumi

BeJeweled

Even a plain woman

will attract the eye if

she is happy, while

the most elaborately

coiffed and bejeweled

woman in a room, if

she cannot summon

contentment,

will seem to be

merely decorative. 

  Anita Shreve

Take time to enjoy

and appreciate

simple things.

Yes even now.

All Hail Aloe

Take time to be kind.

Especially now!

Think long thoughts

in short sentences.

Ferlinghetti

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Actualize It

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Friendships offer

good practice in

accepting the transience

of experience. . .

. . . and the

persistence of feeling.

Stephanie Mills

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Drab but Lovely!

To have reverence

for love and

reverence for compassion

is to actualize it,

to practice it.

   Manulani Meyer

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Reach Practices

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The longest way

must have its close-

the gloomiest night

will wear on to

a morning.

   Harriet Beecher Stowe

All the windows

of my heart -

I open to the day.     

   John Greenleaf Whittier

Embarrassment lasts 

a moment, regrets 

last a lifetime.

                Petteri Tarkkonen

Life's like a movie, 

write your own ending. 

Keep believing, 

keep pretending.

                             Jim Henson

There's calm in each

and every day,

we just need to

practice reaching

out for it. Ron Baratono

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