Sunday, April 20, 2025

Rainbow Banyan Beach Morning

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U
There's never any closure 
in an awe-inspired life,
 only constant acceptance 
of the mysteries...     
                         Paul Pearsall




The meaning of life 
is to find your gift. 
The purpose of life 
is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso. 




We need solitude,
because when we're alone,
we're free from obligations, we 
don't need to put on a show,
and we can HEAR 
our own thoughts.
                     Tamin Ansary





Amplify

Complaints are rocks  
Dropped in a pond—  
Ripples of angst  
Grow quickly beyond.

A threaten of thunder  
Calls more to the sky;  
Clouds gather quickly  
When grievances fly.

But laughter is sunlight  
Out-foxes the gray,  
Changing mud puddles  
To mirrors of day.

So hush your small storm,  
let silence begin—  
Then learn how the world  
grows gentle again.
Cloudia Charters 


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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia



Linking To

Monday Murals

Jaipur Garden Affair



 "In America the law is king.  In free countries the law ought to be king; 
and there ought to be no other."
Thomas Paine 
 1776 pamphlet Common Sense
A foundational text of 
American Independence.
The law is the supreme authority
to prevent tyranny.

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Rainbows Are Made

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U
Rainbows are made
of small raindrops.
Happy lives are made
from acts of kindness
Amit Ray




The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn



 Everything you are Against - Weakens you. Everything you are For - Empowers you. Wayne Dyer
(Don't Be A Silly Duck)


"Boxy" the Box fish

Life might assign you some role but it will never assign you your destiny, for life will always try to fit you into a box of convenience while destiny realizes that there is no such thing as a box of convenience. Craig D. Lounsbrough



 I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Martha Washington 1st First Lady of the USA

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

💧


Linking To

Saturday Critters



Lizards can’t pass through walls, but if we replace the L with a W, the goal might be attained.
Michael Bassey Johnson


Friday, April 18, 2025

The Beauty

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U
Think of all the beauty 
still left around us
and be happy.
                    Anne Frank


The higher we soar 
the smaller we appear 
to those who cannot fly.
                  Nietzsche 




Our entire life … 
consists ultimately in 
accepting ourselves 
as we are.
                  Jean Anouilh




Self-love, my liege, is 
not so vile a sin, 
as self-neglecting.
                  William Shakespeare, 
                                                     Henry V
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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia


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 Links 

Weekend Reflections & Street Photography

Skywatch

Feline Friday

Floral Friday




Thursday, April 17, 2025

Open Quest

 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U


 You'll never find rainbows
If you're looking down.
Charlie Chaplin



I don't plot my books rigidly, 
 a preconceived structure. 
A novel mustn't be 
a closed system - 
it's a quest.
    Kurt Vonnegut






When you go looking
 for rescue, you end up 
trapped in your own weakness.
Deb Caletti






With a little seed of
imagination you can
grow a field of hope.
African Proverb




We build our days

Such fragile towers,  
Stacking minutes
Hours on hours.  
But even stone
Must rest and weather
Then time dissolves
Like floating feathers.  
   Cloudia Charters



The brightest light is invisible.
It shines through your deeds
and warms the universe.

 Dylan Hunt


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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie


 Links

Thankful!

Thursday art date

Little Things Thursday

I Like Thursday

Thankful Thursday

SkyWatch

Floral Friday

Friday Faceoff

Friday Smiles


💥


 Resembling a cross between 
a lion and a dog, 
from Okinawan mythology,
Shisa
are believed to protect from evils.
Some of them have a great smile!
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. 
H. L. Mencken

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Simply

 A L O H A  From

H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U

Compassion,
Let me be what you 
Are doing today. 
Thank you








A single reed sways,
Bowing to 
the weight of dew,
Neither resisting 
nor clinging;
It simply is.





Blue magic
Seeps over the horizon 
A hush of cobalt velvet ink
draped across the rooftops.
  
Clouds drift slow and deliberate,  
Lamp-lit windows blink awake,  
Each a tiny lantern in the indigo hush.
And the air tastes cool like river stones.

Shadows stretch blue silk fingers  
Reluctant to surrender
The day’s last golden relics.

Somewhere, a breeze stirs.

Dusk the gentle conjurer,  
Turns the world to her quiet spell—  
Even the trees hold their breath,  
As the first star, shy and electric,  
Winks from the pocket
Of the waking night.

Cloudia Charters



The sun rises and falls,
Moon waxes and wanes.
No effort binds them;
They are what they are.






Trust that whatever
you are dealing with,
whatever doorway to crisis
you experience, it is leading
you to a greater lesson in living
where ideally the power
of love is what you learn.
Forgive, and broadcast your
excitement to be alive.
Barbara Marciniak

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Working On It

 A L O H A  From
H  O  N  O  L  U  L  U
I wasn't born a fool.
 It took work 
to get this way.
 Danny Kaye 



Leaf of BREADFRUIT TREE

When you yearn
to grasp
Open your hand
and set it free

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I really just want to be 
warm yellow light that 
pours over everyone I love.
Conor Oberst





Until one has loved an animal,
a part of one's soul
remains unawakened.
Anatole France

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

💚



 Links

Travel Tuesday 

Happy Tuesday 

Tuesday Treasures

My Corner Of The World

Wild Bird Wednesday



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