Let The Good

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Whenever feeling downcast,

each person should vitally

remember, 'For my sake,

the entire world was created.

   Baal Shem Tov

1956 Thunderbird

 You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. Toni Morrison

To be an artist,
you need to exist in
a world of silence.
Louise Bourgeois

We are wise only while

in search of wisdom;

Imagine we have attained it,

and we are a fool.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Let the Good in me
connect with the good
in others, until the world
is transformed through the
compelling power of love.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

 ᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭᱭ᱙ 

Love You,
  Cloudia & Pixie

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Ant Wishes

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Click on photo to enlarge

Even the wishes of a

small ant reach heaven.

Shinto Saying

His eye is on the sparrow.

Jesus

In Hawaii, one may go to

a Shinto Shrine

for a New Year Blessing

and many do. Because of the

pandemic, this will be my

first visit since 2019

For Shinto, at root, is a religion

not of sermons but of awe:

which is a sentiment that may

or may not produce words, but in

either case goes beyond them.

Joseph Campbell

Holiday Libation with my pal Zeus
in his festive home!

For last year's words belong

to last year's language;

And next year's words

await another voice.

And to make an end is

to make a beginning.

  T.S. Eliot

This chart shows Honolulu's

air quality from New Year's Eve

6 pm to 1 Jan 2023 noon.

You can see the effect of

MANY illegal aerial fireworks!*

Lest you think this is
from recent volcanic
activity, above you can
see Hawaii island [Active

Volcanoes] on the

right edge all green.
To the upper left on Oahu
you can see the yellow over
Honolulu because of the
population density here on
the "Gathering Place" isle.

Pixie does her best Janus impression,

looking back to the past

and ahead to the new year.

She tells me it will be a better one.

After all, the coming Lunar Year

is the Year of the Cat in Viet Nam

[Cousin Rabbit in China]

We closed all windows to the smoke

and endured the barrage in fine style.

[With prayers for Ukraine]

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Wishing you ALL the Best!

Cloudia & Pixie

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* Video of illegal Honolulu

NYE fireworks shot from my window:

Upward

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Courtesy: Dustin Ebisu

Our goal should be to live life

in radical amazement... Get up

in the morning and look at the world

in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually.

To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Just love everyone.

God will sort

them out later.

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation. Zhuangzi

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault

Look Up.

You may see

papayas!

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith

ᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎᩎ

Love You Friend,

    Clixie & Poudia

Pixie & Cloudia

              { I let Pixie do ONE thing! }

Our wish for you

on which we agree!

What A Year

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Japanese Tea House

Our friendship is like

a cup of tea.

A special blend of

you and me.

 May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send

happiness to you. Irish Blessing

Roo Roo KangaROO!

 Never be haughty

to the humble or

humble to the haughty.

Jefferson Davis

Into The Mystic

Pursue some path,

however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk

with love and reverence. Thoreau

Many Moods of Pixie This Year

I saw my earlier selves as

different people, acquaintances

I had outgrown. I wondered

how I could ever have

been some of them. Roger Zelazny

ꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢯꢲ

Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Yawn Like the Sun

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy. Christine Baranski

The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. Elvis Presley 

Remembered by his friends

No king has a throne more

beautiful than a bench

covered with the

autumn leaves! Mehmet Murat ildan

The true answer to an

insult is a yawn. Mantaranjot Mangat

᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗᱗ᱣ

Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Common and Enchanted

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Oh, now all common things

become uncommon and

enchanted to me.

Charles Dickens

1850

Other people have secret sorrows. Private worries that cloud their tomorrows. You don't need to know what they are. Just shine on them with your secret star.

When people would surrender

in life-or-death situations such

as a hijacking the F.B.I. tries to

find out what they did right.

"We’d ask, ‘What did we say

that made you come out?’

And the answer was always

the same: ‘I don’t remember

what you said. But I liked

the way you said it.’” Gary Norsner,

FBI

Once you label me, 

   you negate me.  

  Sören Kierkegaard 

 ꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔚꔣ 

 Love You, 

  Cloudia & Pixie 

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