Aloha Pumehana

Hawaii is not a state of mind, 

but a state of grace. 

~ Paul Theroux

Happy Mother's Day

Merry Christmas

So this is Christmas

And what have you done

Another year over

And a new one just begun

 And so this is Christmas

I hope you have fun

The near and the dear one

The old and the young...

~John Lennon

My Visit to Cape Cod -- Park II

No amount of skillful invention

can replace the essential

elements of imagination.

~ Edward Hopper

A Visit to Cape Cod

Cape Cod is the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts: the shoulder is at Buzzard’s Bay; the elbow, or crazy-bone, at Cape Mallebarre; the wrist at Truro; and the sandy fist at Provincetown,—behind which the State stands on her guard, with her back to the Green Mountains, and her feet planted on the floor of the ocean, like an athlete protecting her Bay,— with northeast storms, and, ever and anon, heaving up her Atlantic adversary from the lap of earth,—ready to thrust forward her other fist, which keeps guard the while upon her breast sat Cape Ann.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Memories in the Mist

Light the corners of my mind

Misty water-colored memories...

The Shoreline

In every outthrust headland,

in every curving beach,

in every grain of sand

there is a story of the earth.

~ Rachel Carson

Light the Way

Darkness cannot drive out darkness,

only light can do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate,

only love can do that.

~ Martin Luther Kind, Jr.

The sea...

The sea,

once it casts it's spell

holds one in it's net

of wonder forever!

~ Jacques Cousteau

Wash your spirit clean!

Keep close to nature's heart...

and break clear away,

once in a while,

and climb a mountain

or spend a week in the woods.

~ John Muir

Do not go gentle into that good night!

~ Dylan Thomas

I do believe something

very magical can happen

when you read a good book.

~ J. K. Rowling

We ran as if to

meet the moon!

~ Robert Frost

Tranquility

A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains,

fluttering a few moments of tranquility

into the turbulent day.

~ Susan Abulhawa

Take to the Sky

I often sit and wish that I

Could be a kite up in the sky,

And ride upon the breeze and go,

Whichever way I chanced to blow.

Watching the Wheels

Bicycling is the nearest approximation

I know to the flight of birds.

~ Louis J. Helle, Jr.

Marlene

A daughter is just a little girl

who grows up to be

your best friend.

Flower Power

Keep your face

always toward the sunshine

and shadows will

fall behind you!

~ Walt Whitman

Always be on the lookout

for the presence of wonder.

~ E. B. White

Perhaps the best yuletide decoration

is being wreathed in smiles.

In November

It's all a farce, – these tales they tell

About the breezes sighing,

And moans astir o'er field and dell,

Because the year is dying.

~ Paul Laurence Dunbar