Not Perfection

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Pursue excellence Not perfection In service to fulfillment.

No grand design, Not perfect art, Just honest effort From the heart. At our best Our souls will keep, That flame of passion, Pure and Deep.

Cloudia Charters

Our diversity is our strength.

Our unity is our power.

Nancy Pelosi

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.

Robert Schuller 

Sometimes, doing nothing is the best thing you can do!

   Pixie

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Pixie & Cloudia

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Heliconia rostrata,

hanging lobster claw or

false bird of paradise

Glass Boat Gaze

A L O H A From Honolulu!

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

    Eleonora Duse

Take hold of grace, for 

younger you will never be.

        Swedish Proverb

This poem is a vessel of words,

 Glass-bottomed boat

Over the reef of my heart.

Where sunlight pierces,

Illuminating deep,

Secrets revealed

Where shadows creep.

Moral Coral in vibrant displays,

Emotions tangled in complex ways.

Love's crimson hues, passion's green glow,

Some sorrowful shadows, where dark waters flow.

Through the glass my curious eye,

Inland ocean where my feelings lie.

I'm a fragile vessel,

Traversing a turbulent sea,

Borne on by hope, ship-shape and free.

Cloudia Charters

Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.

   Paul P. Harris

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Cloudia & Pixie

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Joy Farmers

A L O H A From Honolulu!

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Let's go to the Joy Farm
And grow us
a bountiful crop,
Of giggles and grins
and contentment
Then all of our worries
will stop.

Plant seeds of delight,
Then water with sweet rain,
Cultivate coolness
To soothe every pain.

We'll harvest contentment,
Big  bushels so grand,
Share joy with the world
Raised on our land.

With joy as our guide
And our spirits made free,
We'll build a whole world
Of shared felicity.
      Cloudia Charters

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a circuitous route away from, and then back to it.

 Darren Shan

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Pixie & Cloudia

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Hope And Optimism Walk Into A Bar

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Hope is optimism

with a broken heart.

Nick Cave

This mountain air

is quiet and still

 Wind and bird songs

A sense of peace,

Gaze upon the tranquil scene,

A moment of serenity.

   Pixie

“Remember,” says Hope,

“the times we felt low, When the world seemed heavy,

and progress was slow?”

Optimism nods, “Yes,

But we learned

to embrace, The beauty in struggle,

and all that we face.”

Pixie & Cloudia

Silent solemn skies Draped in stardust gleam Moonlit Angel legions Murmur, dance, and dream. On lunar light descend Intimate longtime friends!

Cloudia Charters

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. Frederick Buechner

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Cloudia & Pixie

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Forgive Me My Nonsense

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

Normal people don’t know how lucky—how blessed—they are.

Darren Shan

The earth has music for those who listen. William Shakespeare

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. Robert Frost

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A L O H A From Honolulu!

Warmth divine

Light so pure,

Flows from the source

Forever sure.

It fills the hearts

Of angels bright

And touches ours

With radiant light.

         Cloudia Charters

Let your joy be in your journey-

not in some distant goal.

Tim Cook

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Tabebuia Rosea- Pink Poui, Rosy Trumpet Tree, Roble de Sabana, Tekoma, or Maquilíshuat

People bring to what they

see and feel the inner weather

of their souls and

complexion of their minds.

   Han Suyin

It isn’t more light we need, it’s putting into practice what light we already have. When we do that, wonderful things will happen within our lives and within our world.
Peace Pilgrim

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Cloudia & Pixie

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The Art of Ignoring

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Health flows 

from the happiness 

of the heart. 

  Sicilian Saying

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?

Roy T. Bennett

I am proud only of

those days that pass

in undivided tenderness.

   Robert Bly

In a world where whispers

Can drown the mind, Amidst the chaos,

It's clarity we seek to find.

With every noise

That threatens our grace, We learn to filter,

To choose our sacred space.

Like leaves that flutter,

Caught in autumn's breeze,

We sift through distractions,

With practiced ease.

For not all that glitters

Deserves our gaze, And wisdom blooms

In the quietest ways.

So let us cherish

What truly ignites, Our passions and dreams

That soar to new heights.

In the symphony of life

Let silence sing, For in the art of ignoring

Our spirits take wing

             Cloudia Charters 

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Pixie & Cloudia

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