A Discovering

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Anyone can slay a dragon...

but try waking up every morning

and loving the world all over again.

That's what takes a real hero.

  Brian Andreas

The more you walk,

the better you feel.
The more you lift, the

more muscle you build.
The more you get outside,

the happier you are.
The more hard things you do,

the easier your life becomes.
Walk. Lift. Get outside.

Do hard things.
This is the way.
James DiNicolantonio 

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 I have never started

a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem

is discovering. Robert Frost

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Red-Crested Cardinal / Brazilian Cardinal

It's not what you 

look at that matters,

it's what you see.

         Thoreau

You should conduct 

yourself in life 

as at a feast.

      Epictetus

Life is a banquet

and most poor suckers

are starving to death!

 Rosalind Russell

in AUNTIE MAME (1958)

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Jaipur Garden Affair

Friend 0f All Times

A L O H A From Honolulu!

I'm making friends

with all times of day

 Morning noon night.

That's all okay. 

Spicy bright morning

 anxiety in the afternoon.

Will soon change to sunset

 I'll eat it up with a spoon...

...When I was young

everything was clear 

except the mystery

of myself.

Cocktail of confidence

with a slug of self-doubt 

I hazarded attempts 

And figured most of it out...

...Senior years have their fears 

But graced with graces too 

I am friendly with every

time of the day.

So little left with

which to play. 

          Cloudia Charters 

Leucospermum catherine

Catherine-wheel pincushion,

wheel flower in English

and waterluisie in Afrikaans

The great person, 

in the midst of the crowd,

keeps with perfect sweetness

the independence of solitude.

            Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the truth 

comes around, all 

the lies have to 

run and hide.

          Ice Cube

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This Is The Light

A L O H A From Honolulu!

 I'm right here right now

and I want now to

be the Golden Age.

If only each generation would

realize that the time for greatness

is right now when they're alive. . .

. . . the time to flower is now.

  Patti Smith

Kamehameha The Great

Unified the Hawaiian Islands in 1810

One of the most striking figures in Hawaiian history, a leader who united and ruled the islands during a time of great cultural change.

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There is a light that shines

beyond all things on earth,

beyond the highest,

the very highest heavens.

This is the light that

shines in your heart.

        Upanishads

Lei queen smiles

in regal style!

Happiness lingers

around for a while.

Tiara and flowers

But strangely no lei

Laughed to myself

As I walked away.

Cloudia Charters

A cat may look at a queen
only one she's ever seen!

Unity is that
we come together
despite our differences.
Chris Singleton

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Direction of the Wind

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Kindness has a beautiful way of reaching down into a weary heart and making it shine like the rising sun. Unknown

A small son can charm himself

into, and out of, most things.

   Jenny De Vries

There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by. William Cullen Bryant

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions. Chanakya

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Brushstrokes

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Gentle waves are painting

Stories on the shore,

Foamy lines that whisper tales

Of what has come before.

Pixie

In Jewish thought,

a sin is not an offense

against God, an act of

disobedience. A sin is a

missed opportunity

to act humanly.

Rabbi Harold Kushner

Rest and be kind, 

you don’t have to 

prove anything. 

   Jack Kerouac

Shadows like brushstrokes

On a canvas blue,

Foretelling in riddles

what the day will do.

Palm fronds and light

 symphony unbound,

Nature's languages

Without any sound.

    Cloudia Charters

Those who bring sunshine 

to the lives of others cannot 

keep it from themselves

    J. M. Barrie

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Kind of Nobility

A L O H A From Honolulu!

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together. John Greenleaf Whittier  

Every second is of infinite value. 

     Goethe

Weary limbs a throne of tin

King uncrowned pride within

He rules this realm of thirst relief

Oasis of summer's brief reprieve.

The city hums a tireless beat

But here it's break time

Moment of peace

Wrinkled hands burdens borne.

Private smile, well spent morn.

      Cloudia Charters

In wine there is wisdom,

in beer there is freedom,

in water there is bacteria.

   Benjamin Franklin

 To be endowed with 

a generous mind,

 this is the best 

kind of nobility.

            Plato

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