Restorative

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The hardest thing

for a person to do is

to change long-standing

prejudices of belief.

But to succeed in

doing it is a test

of one's humanity.

Franklin

Focus on the

relationship

and not the

transaction.

If you do that,

all will be pono.*

Pono Shim

*Hawaiian: Balanced, good, right

Only the strong

can be gentle.

Yellowed Breadfruit Leaves

Gather the breadfruit

from the farthest

branches first.

   Samoan Proverb

Freedom means

the opportunity to be

what we never thought

we would be. Daniel J. Boorstin

Everywhere I go Everywhere I grow You are there

waiting for me And there's always

more to know.

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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The Things

A L O H A From Honolulu!

 The Scariest Demons

of Deepest Night

Melt in the Grace

of Morning's 

Good Light

 If your mind isn't clouded

by unnecessary things,

this is the best 

season of your life.

  Wu-Men

    (1183-1260)

The secret of happiness is

to count your blessings

while others are 

adding up their troubles.

    Will Smith 

A generous heart,

kind speech, and

compassion, are the

things which 

renew humanity.

 Gautama Siddhartha

Once you've been

loved by a cat,

you can never

go back;

you're over

the puss-ipice!

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Love You,

          Pixie & Me

When the night comes,

streets welcome

the lonely souls

because they 

alone can fully

understand the

lonely streets!

    Mehmet Murat ildan

You Deserve to Enjoy Today

 A L O H A From Honolulu!

When you buy into

any version of fear,

it can become

your experience

because your molecules

are intelligent

and your energy responds

to the predominant feeling

in your being.

The focus of your mind

is exactly what gives

the orders to create

what you experience.

  Barbara Marciniak

It is not flesh and

blood but the

heart which makes

us fathers and sons.

Friedrich Schiller

Rest is not idleness,

and to lie sometimes

on the grass under trees

on a summer's day,

listening to the murmur

of the water, or watching

the clouds float across

the sky... 

...is by no means

a waste of time.

John Lubbock

If you spend your

whole life waiting

for the storm,

you'll never enjoy

the sunshine.

Morris West

Refuse to dwell

on blah.

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Love You,

       Cloudia & Pixie

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Gilded Spiral Within

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Worry is

digging a hole

where no hole

was before.

Stop Digging!

The gilded spiral

Of longings within.

Our very own

cathedral

That points

persistently to

heaven.

Scott Hastie

Only the strong

can be gentle.

Choir

Then the singing

enveloped me.

It was furry and

resonant, coming

from everyone's very heart.

There was no sense of

performance or judgment,

only that the music was

breath and food.

Anne Lamott

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Order without liberty

and liberty without

order are

equally destructive.

  Theodore Roosevelt

After a day's walk

everything has twice

its usual value.

George Macaulay Trevelyan

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Love You,

 Pixie & Cloudia

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YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK BUILDING

908 Bethel Street Honolulu

Opened: 1908

Architect: Harry Livingston Kerr

Style: Classical

Dwell

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Sometimes

during a ballet

I'll look around

and see

all these rows

of intent faces,

concentrating on

this beautiful thing

up on the stage. 

  Robert Caro

For my part,

I know nothing

with any certainty,

but the sight

of the stars

makes me dream.

Vincent Van Gogh

Not just beautiful, though–

the stars are like the

trees in the forest,

alive and breathing.

And they’re watching me. 

  Haruki Murakami

We are all in the gutter,

but some of us are

looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

Seed pods, Royal Poinciana tree Delonix Regia

Spread peace and love.

Be the bearer of

the light of love.

   Debasish Mridha

A morning walk

gives the body a

chance to forgive the

trials and tribulations

of yesterday, to

shed its rubbish

and mental clutter. Walking gets

the feet moving,

the blood moving, the

mind moving. And

movement is life. Terri Guillemets

Dwell

on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Marcus Aurelius

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Thankful!

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Just Clouds Passing

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Neal S. Blaisdell Center

"Memories are made here!" 

A gray day provides

the best light.

Leonardo da Vinci

Most consequential choices

involve shades of gray,

and some fog is

often useful in

getting things done.

Timothy Geithner

Gray skies are just 

clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington

Some people

go to priests;

others to poetry;

I to my friends.

Virginia Woolf

Walter Murray Gibson Building

842 Bethel Street, Honolulu

Opened: 1930

Architect: Louis E. Davis

Style: Spanish Revival

"During the reign of King Kalakaua,

the Minister of the Interior purchased

the property at Bethel Street

and Merchant Street in 1885.

Construction of a new

police station began in 1886.

In 1930, Louis E. Davis was commissioned

for the design of a new building in

the same spot by the same name.

The architecture is similar to the popular

Territorial/Spanish Revival style

seen in Honolulu Hale, [City Hall]

the Academy of Arts,

the C. Brewer & Co. Building,

and more. Like other buildings

of this style, the walls are concrete

covered with a rough stucco finish.

The Walter Murray Gibson Building also

features sandstone from Waianae Oahu,

eleven tons of Roja Alicante marble

from France, and doors made

of mahogany from the Philippines.

When it was used as a police station,

police occupied the basement." 

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Not only is there a

right to be happy,

there is a duty

to be happy.

So much sadness

exists in the world

that we are all

under obligation to contribute as much joy as

lies within our powers.

John S. Bonnell

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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