Small Brought Together

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The wind whispered secrets in its

own incomprehensible language.

Tracy Rees

We will never allow

a nefarious minority

to outshine the majority

of caring, thinking citizens

The golden opportunity you are seeking

is in yourself. It is not in your

environment it is not in luck or

chance, or the help of others

it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Marden

A light wind swept

over the corn, and

all nature laughed

in the sunshine. Anne Bronte

A happy soul is the best

shield for a cruel world. Atticus

Great things are not done by

impulse, but by a series of small

things brought together. Vincent van Gogh

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Love You,

CloudiaPixie

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In Some Way

A L O H A From Honolulu!

You are not obligated

to complete the work, but

neither are you free

to desist from it.

Pirkei Avot

If you smile at someone,

even behind their back,

they feel it in some way.

It accrues to their benefit.

And to your own.

Every act of forgiveness

mends something broken

in this fractured world.

It is a step, however small,

in the long, hard journey

to redemption.

 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

 In hard times, people don't

want to be told to look

on the bright side.

They want to know

you're on their side.

Even if you can't help them

feel better, you can always

help them feel seen.

The best way to support

others is not to cheer them up.

It's to show up. Adam Grant

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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 A L O H A From Honolulu!

Don't be pushed by your problems.

Be led by your dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

     

After 45 years of research & study

the best advice I can give people

is to be a little kinder to each other.

  Aldous Huxley

Lean forward to the next

crazy venture beneath the skies Jack Kerouac

Love more. Worry less!

  Dakotah Hines

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Word Of 2023

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Einstein could ask

immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking. Jacob Bronowski

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. Anais Nin

Before you know kindness as

the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as

the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness

that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day

to mail letters and purchase bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you every where like a shadow or a friend. Naomi Shihab Nye

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one. John Lennon

ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ଶ.ୟ

The Word Is

#KINDNESS

Pass It On

Love You,

Pixie-O* & Cloudia

* Today she wanted to be 'Pixie-O'   ;-)

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

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Love You,
  Cloudia & Pixie

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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

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Love You Friend,

    Clixie & Poudia

Pixie & Cloudia

              { I let Pixie do ONE thing! }

Our wish for you

on which we agree!