Comfort Spiral

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Spaces You Leave

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

What you don't say,
and the spaces you leave,
will say more than any
words you could have used.

Each breadfruit is a compound
or multiple fruit called a syncarp.
The female inflorescence,
appearing after the male,
consists of 1500-2000
minute flowers attached
to a spongy core.
The flowers fuse together
and develop into the fleshy,
edible portion of the fruit.
National Tropical Botanical Garden

Link

I would look at a dog

and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me. Ziggy Marley

One loyal friend is

worth ten thousand relatives. Euripedes

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Love You,
Cloudia & Pixie

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Linking To

Monday Murals

Happy Birthday to our

Pre-Chaos President

Barack Obama

of Oahu!

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Freedom, Flowers and the Moon

A L O H A From Honolulu!

With freedom, books, flowers,

and the Moon, who

could not be happy? Oscar Wilde

Which is Bigger, the Moon or this Flower?

People need celebration in their life.

It's part of what it means

to be human.

We need magic and bliss and power,

myth, and celebration in our lives.

And music is a good way to

encapsulate a lot of it.

Jerry Garcia

The white-rumped shama

was deliberately introduced to

the Hawaiian Archipelago in 1931

To bear trials with a calm mind

robs misfortune of its

strength and burden

Seneca

It is through gratitude

for the present moment

that the spiritual dimension

of life opens up

Eckhart Tolle

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Links
Saturday Critters
Jaipur Garden Affair

Friday, August 4, 2023

The Perfection

A L O H A From Honolulu!

When it comes to learning

about what it means to

grow old, beware

of the experts

Neal Milner

Despair never helps

and it harms significantly.

Avoid it at all costs.

When unavoidable

consider it temporary and

don't succumb to its siren call.

Eat a gallon of ice cream.

Watch movies all day, but

the next day get up....

...Get dressed and plan something

you can do. And when you can't,

there is no shame in getting assistance. Especially these days!

We need every right thinking person

to be a node of sanity.

You are important to all of us.

Gratitude is a concept.

Saying 'Thank You'

the practice.

Meaning it:

the Perfection.

Stoking resentment

helps no one, but

it's easier than

having good ideas.

Occasionally in life

there are those moments

of unutterable fulfillment

which cannot be completely

explained by those symbols

called words. Their meanings

can only be articulated by

the inaudible language

of the heart. Such

is the moment I am

presently experiencing.

Martin Luther King

Nobel (acceptance) Lecture

December 11, 1964

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Love You,

Pixie & Cloudia

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Links
Weekend Reflections & Street Photography
Skywatch
Feline Friday
Floral Friday

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Flown

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Live in the present

and make it so beautiful that

it will be worth remembering.

Ida Scott Taylor

In all things in nature there is something
of the marvelous.
Aristotle

But who will watch my lilies,

When their blossoms open white?

By day the sun shall be sentry,

And the moon and the

stars by night!

Bayard Taylor

All creatures are flawed,

but out of the flaw

may come the universe.

Marguerite Young

Often I think of

the beautiful town,
That is seated

by the sea.
Longfellow

My muse, a wanderer

from the days of old Seeks refuge here, where

pleasure reigns supreme.

And all is joy and mirth,

and none is old, No care nor sorrow

mars the hours serene.

Here, with the wine cup's

brim, and music's lay, The hours fly rapidly,

and soon we find Our cares and troubles

all have flown away,

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Love You,
Pixie & Cloudia

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Links
SkyWatch
Floral Friday
Friday Faceoff

Crepe Ginger

Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Everythings

A L O H A From Honolulu!

Beloved row of monkeypod trees, Kapiolani Blvd, Honolulu

Our original instructions are to

listen to the cloud floating by

and the wind blowing by.

Everything is alive and has

its own consciousness.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse,

Lakota Elder Link

Collective Public Art Project
OR Vandalism?

The root meaning of the word art

is “to fit together” and we all

do this every day. Not all of us

are painters but we are all artists.

Each time we fit things together

we are creating – whether it is to

make a loaf of bread, a child, a day. Corita Kent

Soldier & Traveler's Palm

We don't learn
patience or compassion
by having everything go
our way every time.

To remember where you come from

is part of where you're going. Anthony Burgess

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Linking to
Nature Thursday
Thankful!
Rain’s Thursday art date
Little Things Thursday
I Like Thursday
Thankful Thursday

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Citizen Prince

A L O H A From Honolulu!

One's destination

is never a place,

but a new way

of seeing things.

Henry Miller

Being challenged in life

is inevitable, being

defeated is optional.

Roger Crawford

Mussaenda Link

Your own Self-Realization

is the greatest service you

can render the world.

Ramana Maharshi

"The Citizen Royal" KUHIO Day Parade

"- It honors a man who went from being the adopted son of a king to a counterrevolutionary to Hawaii’s voice in the U.S. Congress. Prince Kuhio was born March 26, 1871, the youngest of three sons of Kauai’s High Chief David Kahalepouli Piikoi and Princess Kinoiki Kekaulike. He grew to be a pragmatic politician called the “Citizen Prince” because of his devotion to the Hawaiian people. After the annexation, although they couldn’t vote for the president, citizens of the territory could elect a nonvoting delegate to Congress. In 1902, Prince Kuhio, was elected delegate and served until his death Jan. 7, 1922. He was 50.

In Washington, D.C., where many considered Hawaiians to be simple natives, Prince Kuhio cajoled Congress into appropriating millions for the construction of Pearl Harbor. He was credited with creating Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The prince also created the Hawaiian Homes Commission to get his people back on the land. In 1920, the last of the alii (High Chief/Royal) to wield real political power introduced the first congressional resolution calling for Hawaii statehood. In 1949, the date of Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana’ole birth was declared a holiday. The Territorial Legislature wanted to honor the Citizen Prince, a man who never forgot his people.

The Maui News Link