Simple Presence

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Where the Palms Are Higher Than the Clouds

Be willing to

be a beginner

every morning.

Meister Eckhart

It's funny how 

so much of 

"Finding Yourself"

in adulthood is simply

getting back to

who you were and

what you loved

as a child.

@okay_zuri

Those who cling to

perceptions and views

wander the world

offending people.

Buddha

In the Sun,

I feel as one.

Kurt Cobain

 By accepting yourself

and fully being

what you are, your

simple presence can

make others happy.

Buddha & Pixie

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Little Things Thursday

I Like Thursday

Somewhere

A L O H A From Honolulu!

If you keep hope alive,

it will keep you alive. C. Clare

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

Beverly Nichols

A beautiful lady is

an accident of nature.

A beautiful old lady is

a work of art. Louis Nizer

You only need

one ray of light to

chase all the

shadows away. Fredrik Backman

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

Secretly Sunny

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Photographed Photographer

There is one thing

the photograph

must contain,

the humanity

of the moment. Robert Frank

crown flowers as yet unopened

If the present is

left unopened, now, it is closed.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Calotropis gigantea,

the crown flower,

is a species of Calotropis native to Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, China, Pakistan, Nepal, and tropical Africa.

It is a large shrub growing

to 4 m tall.

     Wikipedia

 Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) a

small North American thrush

And when he sings to you,

Though you're deep in blue,

You will see a ray of

light creep through,

Somewhere there's a

bluebird of happiness.

Life is sweet, tender

and complete,

when you

find the

bluebird of happiness.

Edward Heyman & Harry Parr Davies

               1934

I feel how much

I like this place and

could willingly waste

my time in it and feel

myself continually

coming to life.

 William Shakespeare

It's always sunny

above the clouds.

Always.

Every day on earth-

every day

I have ever had-

was secretly sunny,

after all.

Caitlin Moran

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Love You

 Pixie & Cloudia

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Rare High Surf

On Hawaii's South shores

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Oahu's NORTH Shore is famous for surf,

But THIS is South Shore Waikiki yesterday.

Shot on my normal morning walk.

Sometimes in the morning,

when it's a good surf,

I go out there, and

I don't feel like

it's a bad world.

   Kary Mullis

Now, as we stand

three feet apart

and stare at each other,

I feel the full distance

that comes with spending

so much time apart,

a moment filled with

the electricity of a

first meeting and the

uncertainty of strangers.

 Marie Lu

Also A MAJOR GOOD Mango Season!

People are too complicated

to have simple labels.

   Philip Pullman

All the air you'll ever need

is in the boredom of your life.

But the magic is in

the miniscule mundane.

Jason Reynolds

Never love anyone

who treats you

like you're ordinary.

Oscar Wilde

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You Friends

Make Us Feel Special

We Love You Back,

    Pixie & Cloudia

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Oasis

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The important thing is

not to stop questioning.

Curiosity has its own

reason for existing. Albert Einstein

Cassia fistula, golden shower tree

Dance and sing to your music.

Embrace your blessings.

Make today worth remembering.

    Steve Maraboli

Taking pictures is

savoring life intensely,

every hundredth

of a second.

   Marc Riboud

Art, as far as it is able,

follows nature, as a

pupil imitates his master;

thus your art must be, as

it were, God's grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

Real empathy is

not selective.

  John de Ruiter

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Love You,

 Pixie & Cloudia

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Monday Murals 

Jaipur Garden Affair

Hope is Classy

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Super Moon, Laie Point Oahu by Dustin Ebisu 

Give me

a moon-blanket night

to keep me warm

   Sanober Khan

Moonlight signifies a time

when there is hope

in darkness, but

you have to focus

on that hope.

  Therese May

You will never feel alone,

if you run down the

stairs of loneliness;

as every solitary step

becomes your companion.

Munia Khan

In matters of truth and justice,

there is no difference

between large and small

problems, for issues

concerning the

treatment of people

are all the same.

Albert Einstein

You should respect

everyone around you-

the people who

work for you, peers.

Be classy.*

Charli XCX

Pixie, you are ALL class!

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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I’d  Rather Be Birding

* Some people can only be respected by leaving them be.

In hopes that they will eventually wise up. Meanwhile you

limit their damage by leaving them be!

H.O.P.E.- Hang On Pain Ends

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Super Moon by Mike Price , Oahu Hawaii

Three things cannot

be long hidden:

the sun, the moon,

and the truth.

Buddha

Morning Met Street Portraits

Our actions in the present

build the staircase

to the future.

The question is whether

that staircase is going

up or down. Craig D. Lounsbrough

[I like the stairs, upper left of the shot.

The sort of thing you only see later

AFTER taking it. Where does it go?

How does it change the photo?

The quote amplifies it's mystery

and mastery of the picture]

I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one... Edna St. Vincent Millay 

The light at the end

of the tunnel

is your life;

it's the tunnel

that's temporary.

  Michael Josephson

Ten Years, Three Homes, Two Time Zones Ago

If the world comes to an end,

I want to be in Cincinnati.

Everything comes there

ten years later.

  Mark Twain

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Love You,

  Cloudia & Pixie

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