Friday, August 11, 2023

Fine Moment At It's Own Speed

A L O H A From Honolulu!
Thank you to everyone who has expressed care about the fires on my neighbor island of Maui. It affects all of us in this small chain of islands and your care touches our hearts. Now back to Renewal:
My muse, a wanderer
from the days of old Seeks refuge here, where
pleasure reigns supreme And all is joy and mirth,
and none is old, No care nor sorrow mars
the hours serene.


Like the moon,
come out from
behind the clouds!
Shine!
Buddha 



Serenity is
the art of accepting



Amaryllis 
Harmony is the feeling
that arises from not wanting
to be somewhere else,
doing something else.
Raj Raghunathan


Back in the day, we
taxi drivers used to say:
"Don't take it personal."
Sometimes,
you pick up people
who bring along
their own gray cloud.
Don't carry their mood
after you have
dropped them off.
Just keep driving,
and don't take it personal.




This moment is fine.
  Naval Ravikant





Patience means allowing things
to unfold at their own speed
rather than jumping in with
your habitual response.
   Pema Chödrön


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Love You,
 Pixie & Cloudia





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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Let Every Sunrise

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Let every sunrise
adorn your mind with
the power of hope.
Let it paint your life
with the colors of
the morning sky.
Debasish Mridha



Whenever another person
is wrong,
spectacularly wrong, or
even dangerously wrong.
You still have two choices:
condemnation or compassion.
One is helpful. The other is
inflammatory and not helpful at all.*


If you can't make it better
refrain from making it worse



Now and then it's good
to pause in our pursuit
of happiness and just
be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire



Begin viewing others
as different,
rather than wrong.
It will change your world.
Megan Rohrer

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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 Links

SkyWatch

Floral Friday

Friday Faceoff



* Always remove yourself from
dangerous situations & people.

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

On The Three "N" Plan

A L O H A From Honolulu!

I'm on the 3 N Plan
regarding everyone as
my Niece, Nephew,
or Neighbor.



The Hawk Soars with the Winds
Larger-than-life bronze
Entrance to Hilton Hawaiian Village,
Waikiki Oahu, Hawaii
Kim Duffett Artist



Wisdom warns against desire,
but there is power in wanting.
Eugene Utley





Find a beautiful place
inside the nature and
refresh yourself over there;
how well you repose will
mostly determine how far
you can go in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan


The best lies about me
are the ones I told.
Patrick Rothfuss





Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


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Our first Hawaii home was in KONA
on Hawaii Island:

Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Noticing

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Wisdom is not gained
by knowing what is right.
Wisdom is gained by
practicing what is right,
and noticing what happens
when that practice succeeds
and when it fails.
Barbara Brown Taylor



What gets us into trouble
is not what we don't know.
It's what we know for sure
that just ain't so.
Mark Twain



Taking responsibility for events
that (you will argue)
were not your fault used to be
understood to be the occasional
burden of being an adult.
Miss Manners 



This Great Egret
is NOT a Duck:

Biologists say that
the duck's tail feathers
evolved to cover
it's butt quack.


Even though you're growing up,
you should never stop having fun.
Nina Dobrev


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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie




In the afternoon,
the beauty of the world
reveals itself in a gentle light,
and we find solace in its embrace.


Monday, August 7, 2023

Tenacity

A L O H A From Honolulu!

There is no chance,
no destiny, no fate, that
can circumvent or hinder or
control the firm resolve
of a determined soul. Ella Wheeler Wilcox



Those tenacious of purpose
in a rightful cause are not
shaken from firm resolve by the
frenzy of fellow citizens clamoring
for what is wrong, or by the
tyrant's threatening countenance.
Horace, 23 BC



It is not enough
that we do our best;
sometimes we must do
what is required. Winston S. Churchill


Patience and tenacity
are worth more than
twice their weight
of cleverness.
Thomas Henry Huxley


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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Sunday, August 6, 2023

Spaces You Leave

A L O H A From Honolulu!

For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though
in another dress,
And as the evening
twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars,
invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



What you don't say,
and the spaces you leave,
will say more than any
words you could have used.



Each breadfruit is a compound
or multiple fruit called a syncarp.
The female inflorescence,
appearing after the male,
consists of 1500-2000
minute flowers attached
to a spongy core.
The flowers fuse together
and develop into the fleshy,
edible portion of the fruit.
National Tropical Botanical Garden



 I would look at a dog
and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me. Ziggy Marley



One loyal friend is
worth ten thousand relatives. Euripedes

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie



Linking To

Monday Murals 


Happy Birthday to our

Pre-Chaos President

Barack Obama

of Oahu!