Thursday, May 23, 2024

Majestic Tolerance Common Enchantments

A L O H A From Honolulu!

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.
Jacob Nordby





Love is
the joy of the good,
the wonder of the wise,
the amazement of the Gods. 
     Plato 




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Only by cutting through the 
darkness of ignorance 
can we truly imagine 
the majesty of tolerance.
                Artis Lewis




At the end of the day,
what really matters is that
your loved ones are well,
you've done your best, and
that you're thankful
for all you have. A.N. Onymous *


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Pixie & Cloudia


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*on·​y·​mous หˆรคnษ™mษ™s : bearing a name
especially : giving or bearing the author's name

an onymous article in a magazine
—opposed to anonymous

onymously adverb

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onymous

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

If The Liars Turned Blue

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Blessed are the weird people:
poets, misfits, writers
mystics, painters, troubadours
for they teach us to see
the world through different eyes.
Jacob Nordby


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




All we need, really, is
a change from a near frigid
to a tropical attitude of mind.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas 


If all the Liars turned blue
we would know just what to do.
We would not believe them
nor pay-back deceive them. 
But go our way 
as the honest folk do.
Cloudia Charters


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Pixie & Cloudia

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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Tea Fragrance Room

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Life gives us more gifts in a day
than we unwrap in a year.
John Sarris 



Poised as a statue carved in concrete,
The only stillness on the street
Delivery trucks rumble cacophony, Yet her silence blooms in mystery. Scent of frying noodles
sweet and strong, As Chinatown shoppers
hurry along...
Cloudia Charters
Char Hung Sut means
Tea Fragrance Room
[smell of the tea-house]




Laughter is the shortest 
distance between two people.
              Victor Borge 



 'Twas not given for thee alone,
Pass it on;





Let it travel down the years,
Let it wipe another's tears,
'Til in Heaven the deed appears -
Pass it on.
        Henry Burton

I like the intimation that
our actions reverberate far
further than we know.
And that someday we may
fully appreciate how far!
Cloudia





Self-control is something
for which I do not strive.
Self-control means wanting to be
effective at some random point
in the infinite radiations of
my spiritual existence.
Franz Kafka
Me Too!
Pixie

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Pixie & Cloudia

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Monday, May 20, 2024

Not Trifles

A L O H A From Honolulu!

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. Joseph Addison


Staying kind, calm, and
keeping an open mind 
are radical acts today!




Petals soft as satin sighs,
Plumeria twirls down from the skies,
To paint the grass like colored snow,
Springtime blooms in gentle glow.

Nature's art this fragrant sea
Sweet perfume to the trade wind's glee.
This lawn of blooms a tropic grace,
Touches of heaven in this place.


Carpet soft, a fragrant bed,
Spring time's whispers gently spread.
Cloudia Charters




When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
Pema Chodron





Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything
George Bernard Shaw, 





A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, knows something. Wilson Mizner

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Cloudia & Pixie

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Sunday, May 19, 2024

Mystery Scene With Dog

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The Moon, like a flower
in Heaven's high bower,
with silent delight,
sits
and smiles on the night.
      William Blake



Click on photo to enlarge the mystery
Light isn't always buoyant
and shadows aren't always despair;
yet both, I believe, are limitless
in lessons that they share.
Carolyn Riker






Remember,
the best way to resist darkness
is to shine your own light.
Be the kindness
that defies negativity.
   Mattie Stepanek
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I never tell anyone
exactly how clever I am.
They would be too scared.
    Eoin Colfer

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Saturday, May 18, 2024

No Empty Gestures

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Wearing her crown of royal night,
The city breathes in jeweled light.
Streets below, vibrant streams
Flash neon signs and active dreams.
But up above, the heavens hold
A deeper magic poured in black gold.
      Cloudia Charters





Animals praise a good day, a good hunt.
They praise rain if they're thirsty.
That's prayer. They don't live an
unconscious life, they simply have no
language to talk about these things.
But they are grateful for the
good things that come along.
            Mary Oliver

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Adenium is a genus of flowering plants
in the family Apocynaceae first described in 1819.
It is native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
With the delicacy of a flower,
love tames the most aloof hearts.
     Augusto Branco





There are no empty gestures
made with a full heart. 
   John Sarris 


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Pixie & Cloudia

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Friday, May 17, 2024

Warrior Not Worrier

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Remember
We are not given a challenge
we can't overcome.

The reason most people break
down is that they put most of
the energy into the problem
instead of the solution.

Let's get into warrior mode
not worrier mode!
Gedale Fenster



The Crown-flower queen, In robes of lilac blue With her stems of attendants, And Bees, around her head. The little bees are glad, For they know that she is good, And the Crown-flower is happy, In their neighborhood
Together they endure
In harmony and peace.
The crown herself is crowned
By her golden bees.
Cloudia Charters



The greatest illusion of
modern society is that freedom
is purely individualistic, when in
reality, our freedom is deeply
interconnected with the
well-being of everyone. @berniegirl67_3


The longer I live, the more deeply
I learn that love, whether we call it
friendship or family or romance, is
the work of mirroring and magnifying
each other's light. Gentle work.
Steadfast work. Life-saving work
in those moments when life and
shame and sorrow occlude our own light
from our view, but there is still a
clear-eyed loving person to beam it back.
In our best moments, we are that
person for another. James Baldwin

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Cloudia & Pixie

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