Comfort Spiral

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Remind

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Remind me
that all of this,
every bit of it,
is for love.
Keep me fiercely kind.
Laura Jean Truman

The difference between
a rut and a groove is
how you feel in it.
Cloudia Charters

Giant tree - tiny soul,

fellowship

that makes us whole.

Wind sings secrets

in the leaves,

A language only

nature weaves.

The child, entranced

feels spirit rise,
joins the song

with gentle sighs.

Single hand

so soft and small,
Reaches out

to feel it all.
Cloudia Charters

The intuitive mind

is a sacred gift
and the rational mind

is a faithful servant.
We have created a society
that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein

Some people,

no matter how old they get,

never lose their beauty -

they merely move it

from their faces

into their hearts.

Martin Buxbaum

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Thankful!
Rain’s Thursday art date
Little Things Thursday
I Like Thursday
Thankful Thursday
SkyWatch
Floral Friday
Friday Faceoff

Maneki-neko

Crimson collars glint in the sun,

Paws raised high, good luck has begun!

A bobtail bunch, this porcelain crowd, Beckoning cats in a lucky cloud.

Cloudia & Pixie

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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Do Joy

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Agreement

is not essential. Mutual Respect is.

And the Fairy of Dreams
with moth-wings furled
Plays soft on her flute
to the drowsy world.
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

We are formed and
molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are
shaped by selfless thoughts
give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow
that never leaves them.
Buddha

The one who

tells the stories

rules the world.

Hopi proverb

Life is short and

if you're not careful

you'll spend so much time

doing everything you 'have' to do

that you'll run out of time for things

that bring you joy. Make space.

It's never convenient.

It's always worth it. Michell C. Clark

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Dusk Rewards

A L O H A From Honolulu!

No harshness lingers,

light grows soft; A gentle hush

ascends aloft Gazing up with grateful eye

to restful iridescent sky.

Cloudia Charters

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass

A silent night. -

the most eloquent poem

I have ever read.

Sanober Khan

I asked myself, “Who would I be if I weren’t busy? What would be left of my life and me after I removed excess stuff from my home and allowed my day to have unscheduled open spaces?
Lisa J. Shultz

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Travel Tuesday

Happy Tuesday

Tuesday Treasures

My Corner Of The World

Wild Bird Wednesday

Signs2

Wordless Wednesday

Pick a sign, any sign,

stop or park,

Perhaps One Way?

Shot in the dark.

Monday, April 15, 2024

Caffeine Kiss Morning Bliss

A L O H A From Honolulu!

To be fully alive is to have an aesthetic perception of life because a major part of the world's goodness lies in its often unspeakable beauty.
Yukitaka Yamamoto

Flow and you'll know.

Flow a state where worries cease

Lost in the moment finding peace.

Surrender sweet to the gentle sway,

Go with the current of your day.

Did you see the pigeon?

When looking back over my life, at things that I regret or would have done differently, what strikes me is that among them is not one example of a time that I wished I had been harsher to someone. There are many examples of the opposite.

Most hard-boiled people

are half-baked.

Wilson Mizner

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Nature Notes
From The Archives
The Good.Random.Fun.
AWWW Monday
T Tuesday
Pictorial Tuesday

Coffee cup

a warm embrace,
Rainbow paints

her smile in space.

Sunday, April 14, 2024

National Sympathy Orchestra

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Praise and blame,

gain and loss,

pleasure and sorrow

come and go like the wind.

To be happy,

rest like a giant tree,

in the midst of them all.

Buddha

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I hope when I inevitably choke to death on gummy bears, people will just say I was killed by bears and leave it at that.

Thanks Mike!

With happiness

comes intelligence

to the heart.

Chinese proverb

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Washington Irving

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Love You,

Cloudia & Pixie

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Monday Murals

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Loud and Shy

A L O H A From Honolulu!

You are so nice I'll kiss you twice Once in the morning And one at night. You are a child and a sage. I'll kiss you in youth And again in old age. Cloudia Charters

These hulls that danced

on ocean's crest,

Carry the weight

of every test,

In their knots,

legends keep,

Of journeys dared

and fate to meet.

Testament to starry lore,

In every knot, forevermore.

"On that first voyage, we were facing cultural extinction. There was no navigator from our culture left. The Voyaging Society looked beyond Polynesia to find a traditional navigator to guide Hōkūle‘a: Mau Piailug, a navigator from a small island called Satawal, in Micronesia. He agreed to come to Hawai‘i and guide Hōkūle‘a to Tahiti. Without him, our voyaging would never have taken place. Mau was the only traditional navigator who was willing and able to reach beyond his culture to ours."

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