Friday, February 11, 2022

Mesology Lessons

A L O H A From Honolulu!

I hope to become a better
 ‘mesologist' *
one who studies
the means of
attaining happiness.




To myself I am
but a small child
wandering upon the
vast shores of knowledge,
every now and then
finding a small
bright pebble to
content myself with.
       Plato






We are superior
to everyone
who looks
down on us.








One word frees us 
of all the weight 
and pain of life: 
that word is love.
      Sophocles

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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* Coined around 1830, in the writings of the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham


Thursday, February 10, 2022

All The Secrets

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Feeling lost, crazy and
desperate belongs
to a good life
as much as
optimism, certainty
and reason.
Alain de Botten






Happiness is never
an accident. It is
the prize we get
when we choose wisely
from life's stories
Joseph Dunn







Wise people are
the roosters of
the universe:
Awakening
the unawake!
  Mehmet Murat ildan














When opinions become
identities, they warp
our understanding and
make it harder to
change one’s mind as
the situation changes.
Michael Bang Petersen




All the secrets
of the world worth
knowing are hiding
in plain sight.
Robin Sloan

The actual flower of Red Ginger plants
are the small white flowers! 




Did you humans know that
Seat belts aroused heated debate
despite increasing scientific research
in the 1940s and 1950s showing
their value in saving lives?
Some car owners even cut the
seat belts out of their cars!
Don't worry. Some of you
have ALWAYS been
C R A Z Y!
Strangely comforting perspective.
You're Welcome

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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

We Join Them

 Aloha from Honolulu!
Navigation light at the end of the channel.
Where the outriggers live.

We are called to be
bridge builders; but
too many of us are
merely toll takers.






Aging is a peculiar
mixture of surrender
and being indomitable.






Love it - not above it.
What do you need to
appreciate more?




Kindness & Happiness
travel together.



Seen in its own right,
a loving person's inner spirit
is an angel of heaven,
and while we are living
in the body we are also
in the company of angels,
even though we are
not aware of it; and
once we are released
from the body
we join them.
  Emanuel Swedenborg 

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Cloudia & Pixie
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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

How You Win

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Ginger
Joy rises like the sun,
when mistaken problems
evaporate with morning fog.





Pandanus tectorius
is a species of Pandanus
that is native to Malesia,
eastern Australia, and the
Pacific Islands. It grows
in the coastal lowlands
typically near the
edge of the ocean.
Common names:
hala tree, pandanus,
and pu hala
in Hawaiian.
  Wikipedia





This Myna has no respect for U.S. Gov't Property!
 Be gracious and courteous
to strangers, it shows one
is a citizen of the world,
and that your heart is no
island cut off
from other islands,
but a continent that
joins to them.
  Francis Bacon






You win by not being
what they expect
you to be.
In a world where
kindness is a
rebellious act let's
all become rebels!

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Pixie & Cloudia


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Monday, February 7, 2022

Some Of Today's Rainbows

A L O H A From Honolulu!

7:25 a.m.
There will come a day 
when people of all races, 
colors, and creeds 
will put aside their 
differences. 
They will come 
together in love, 
joining hands in 
unification, 
to heal the Earth and 
Her children... 




7:27 a.m.
...They will move over 
the Earth like a
great Whirling Rainbow, 
bringing peace, 
understanding and healing 
everywhere they go. 
Navajo
Prophecy of the Whirling Rainbow





7:51 a.m.













8:05 a.m.
If you cannot see the rainbow
because your face is down,
don't argue that no rainbow
is up there. Lift up
your passion and take
your dreams off the ground!
 Israelmore Ayivor








8:19 a.m.
Our lives are rainbows
in reverse
footed in Heaven
passing through Earth...



9:56 a.m.
...Our colors and flavors
deepen as we arch
through plenty and longing,
oasis and parch.




10:25 a.m.






2013
If you were born
without wings, do
nothing to prevent
them from growing.
   Coco Chanel 

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Love You,
   Pixie & Cloudia


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Sunday, February 6, 2022

Blue Ginger Plumeria

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Well Hello!
Oh I'm not a virus,
I'm an Anti-body!




Call for the grandest
of all earthly spectacles,
what is that? It is the
sun going to his rest.
   Thomas de Quincey *






Anything looked at closely
becomes wonderful.
   A. R. Ammons








A smile will gain you
ten more years of life.
Chinese Proverb



Sometimes the most
important thing in
a whole day is the
rest we take
between two
deep breaths.
   Etty Hilsum

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Love You,
      Cloudia & Pixie
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*By his own testimony, De Quincey first used opium in 1804 to relieve his neuralgia; he used it for pleasure, but no more than weekly, through 1812. It was in 1813 that he first commenced daily usage, in response to illness and his grief over the death of Wordsworth's young daughter Catherine. During 1813–1819 his daily dose was very high, and resulted in the sufferings recounted in the final sections of his Confessions. For the rest of his life, his opium use fluctuated between extremes; he took "enormous doses" in 1843, but late in 1848 he went for 61 days with none at all. There are many theories surrounding the effects of opium on literary creation, and notably, his periods of low use were literarily unproductive.      Link