Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Brightening

Aloha From Honolulu!

Come forth into
the light of things, let
nature be your teacher.
   William Wordsworth





The darkness
of the whole world
cannot swallow the
glowing of a candle.
Robert Altinger





It's Christmas time
in the city!




I never know what I'm
going to put on the canvas.
The canvas paints itself.
I'm just the middleman.
Peter Max





We cannot hold a torch
to light another’s path
without brightening
our own.
Ben Sweetland

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

With You

A L O H A From Honolulu!


 The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration
which are needed to produce
valuable and lasting results. Carl Jung




In quiet moments,
thoughts take flight,  
With you, my friend,
they find their light.  
In solitude,
I’ve often roamed,  
Yet in our words,
I feel at home.  
     Cloudia Charters





Even the darkest night
will end and
the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo







As one grows older
one should grow more expert
at finding beauty in
unexpected places, in deserts
and even in towns, in
ordinary human faces and
among wild weeds.
      C. C. Vyvyan

Clara Coltman Vyvyan was an
Australian-born travel writer.
She published under the names
C. C. Rogers and C. C. Vyvyan. 
Born: 1885, Stanage, Australia
Died: March 1, 1976 (age 91 years)
Books: The Scilly Isles,
Letters from a Cornish Garden 


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


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Public Utility & Sign

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer

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Evokes a dreamy psychedelic comfort
just as it did all those years ago:

Monday, December 2, 2024

Linger


A L O H A From Honolulu!

 Changing the world 
begins with the
very personal process 
of changing yourself,
the only place you can
begin is where you are, 
and the only time you
can begin is always now. 
  Gary Zukav




California Oak in Marin County CA

Gratitude makes sense of
our past, brings peace
for today, and creates
a vision for tomorrow.
    Melody Beattie





Kind words not only 
lift our spirits
in the moment 
they are given, 
but they can 
linger with us 
over the years. 
                 Joseph B. Wirthlin






When you are in alignment
 with who-you-really-are, 
you cannot help but uplift 
those with whom 
you come into contact.
                     Abraham-Hicks





Cherish forever what
makes you unique, 'cuz
you're really a yawn
if it goes.
    Bette Midler



And we are put on this earth
 a little space
 that we might learn
 to bear the beams 
of love 
William Blake



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Sip and Shoe 

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Yellow Bells


Aloha From Honolulu!

Gentle waves are painting
Stories on the shore,
Foamy lines that whisper tales
Of all that came before.




The heart is the only
broken instrument
 that works.
    T. E. Kalem




Tecoma stans
Yellow Esperanza,
Trumpet Bush, Trumpet Flower,
Yellow Bells, Yellow Elder



 Eternity is in love
 with the productions
 of time.
 William Blake 





 People will forget
what you said.
People will forget
what you did.
But people will never forget
how you made them feel.
   Maya Angelou


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Love You,
 Pixie & Cloudia

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One joy scatters
a hundred griefs.
      Chinese proverb

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Uncut Diamonds

Aloha From Honolulu!

In a world like ours,

all we’ve got to be -
 is the warmth of
the morning sun.
  Michael Bassey Johnson


Shell Ginger & Bee

To make a prairie
it takes a clover
and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
      Emily Dickinson




Little Green Heron

Birds sing after a storm; 
why shouldn't people feel 
as free to delight in 
whatever sunlight 
remains to them?
         Rose Kennedy



Diamond Head Light

Guard well your spare moments.
They are like uncut diamonds.
Discard them and their value
will never be known.
Improve them
and they will become
the brightest gems
in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


With a good friend
the hours are short.
   Basque proverb 

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Love You,
Pixie, Cloudia
& the Bee

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When the bee comes
to your house,
let her have beer;
you may
want to visit the
bee's house some day.
   Congo Proverb


Friday, November 29, 2024

The Art Of Letting It Be

 Aloha From Honolulu!

In quiet can be found 
The art of letting it be.
Acceptance blooms wide
When boundaries dissolve.
Finding the courage
to live free.

There is magic
in the flow.
Richness of
what simply is.
Embrace the world
as it comes.
Harmony unfolds
In a quiet heart.
      Cloudia Charters 





Do All the good you can,
by all the means you can,
in all the ways you can,
in all the places you can,
at all the times you can,
to all the people you can,
as long as ever you can.
  John Wesley 
(Uncertain Attribution)




Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. Martin Buxbaum





Galphimia gracilis,
native to eastern Mexico.
Widely cultivated in warm regions throughout the world, often
under the common names
gold shower or shower-of-gold,
slender goldshower or
sometimes thryallis.
Wikipedia



2012
Give thanks today for the
compassionate people; the
lovers, helpers, givers, and
healers, who see more than
just themselves, who move
through the world with
open hands and
not closed fists.
Thank You, Keep Going.
It Matters
John Pavlovitz


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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I have been cast aside,
but I sparkle in the darkness.
I have been slain, but live on
in the rivers of history.
I seek no conquest,
no wealth, no power,
no revenge;
I seek only discovery
Of the illimitable heights and
depths of my own being.
           Pauli Murray
                    “Prophecy”