Java Finch

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The most impactful thing

we can do is to

live our sanity,

our compassion,

and our joy.

This has wide reaching effects.

[And vote in every election!]

The boughs of the oak

are roaring inside the acorn.

  Charles Tomlinson

The Java sparrow,

also known as Java finch,

Java rice sparrow or

Java rice bird.

Resident breeding bird in Java,

Bali and Indonesia.

In the United States there are (introduced) breeding populations

on several of the Hawaiian Islands, especially Oahu. In Asia

the Java sparrow is most often

raised almost from birth by human breeders and owners, and become

very tame and attached

to humans. They can be

normally let out for indoor exercise without attempting to escape.
Wikipedia

The Java sparrow has been

a popular cage bird in

Asia for centuries, frequently

appearing in Japanese paintings

and prints. Meiji-era writer

Natsume Sōseki wrote an

essay about his pet Java sparrow.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s

the Java sparrow was one of the

most popular cage birds in

the United States until its

import was banned. 

     Wikipedia

Chinese landscape paintings

often include tiny figures -

as if to emphasize the

grandeur of nature of

which humankind is

one small part.

Think big and live small.

Barbara Ann Kipfer

The noblest art is that of making others happy. P. T. Barnum

.

Love You

Cloudia & Pixie

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"Hold My Beer"

Farewell Sour Annoy

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Announced by all the

trumpets of the sky
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

I inhale and a zephyr

enters my body.

The earth tilts its axis,

changing my view

of the heavens.

Two clouds appear

in the shape of trumpets.

They part and rays

of sunlight burst in.

The sunlight speaks,

'Seek a new experience'.

 Lawren Leo

Sound drums and trumpets!

Farewell sour annoy!

For here, I hope,

begins our lasting joy.

Shakespeare

Lei Queens Link

In every woman

there is a Queen.

Speak to the Queen and

the Queen will answer.

  Norwegian Proverb

Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure,

but...

...its exact location is known

only by the dragon

that guards it.

Lawren Leo

👥👥👥👥👥👥

Love You,

Dragon & Queen

.

Our Conversation

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Learn to see the world as a place of becoming. Things that bother you are only undeveloped. Never let yourself be disappointed for long. If you keep looking for the dawn,

to work for it, to be patient

and confident, you will be rewarded. Failure is temporary. Your resilience, and

the character that

you build

with every good choice are yours forever.

Regard every annoyance

as passing.

It is.

If you are confident

in your beliefs,

you do not need

to enforce them.

You only need

to live them. 

Today is a good day to

reevaluate your habits.

What has stopped

working for you?

Small changes can

lead to big happiness.

Truth

though crushed to earth

shall rise again. William Cullen Bryant

Words Have Power.

NEVER say anything that

you do NOT want to be true.

Immediately contradict a

negative with its opposite.

Repeat positive ideas

you believe in

and they

will fill your life! 

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Unexpected Element

A L O H A From Honolulu!

We all have an

unsuspected reserve of

strength inside that

emerges when life

puts us to the test.

Isabel Allende

Cana Lily, Canna indica, Indian shot

You will do

foolish things, but do them

with enthusiasm.

Colette

Walk as if you are

kissing the Earth

with your feet.

 Thich Nhat Hanh

Yellow Hibiscus

Politeness is the

flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert 

Hibiscus Tiliaceus tree flower

Gratitude gilds everything

like sunshine

Cana Lily, Canna indica, Indian shot, seed pods

Drink your tea slowly

and reverently, as if

it is the axis on which

the world earth revolves

–slowly, evenly, without

rushing toward the future.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Monkey Pod Tree Blossoms,

Samanea saman, also

sometimes known as

the rain tree,

is a species of flowering tree

in the pea family native to

Central and South America.

Wikipedia

Things are never as bleak as

they can sometimes seem.

There's always a twist,

an unexpected element.

Events ricochet they don't

proceed in an orderly

predictable fashion.

Stop catastrophizing

and start living. Oh Joy!

𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒊𐒐

Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

Links 

Skywatch

Floral Friday

Feline Friday

Friday Bliss

Monkey Pod Tree

How Sweet

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Honolulu Street Scene with Walker

Walkers are

'practitioners of the city'

for the city is made to be walked.

A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the

act of speaking

that language, of selecting

from those possibilities.

Just as language limits

what can be said,

architecture limits

where one can walk.

But the walker invents

other ways to go.

Rebecca Solnit

Take some time

throughout the day

to stop and remember

what You love, what

You are really grateful for,

what You are

working towards,

what You believe in.

When you were young,

trying to find your way in life,

was there a book, a routine,

devotional practice, or daily positive

that really improved your life?

You felt renewed, and promised

yourself that you'd never

forget this source,

this treasure!

 

Today I invite you

to revisit the books, ideas, and

practices that meant so much

to you on the early days

of your journey. Then

once the well is cleared,

the water is sweet again.

We merely forgot

how sweet it really is!

ଔଔଔଔଔଔଔଆ

Love You,

  Pixie & Cloudia

.

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