Light the Candle

7:09 AM

"All I know to do 

is to light the candle that has been given to me."

~ Fred Rogers 

Glorious

"Truly it is glorious, our being here." 

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

So many different emotions evolve as the sun presents our new day... Some mornings the light is so bright, I must swallow it in many breaths.

7:13 AM Magnificent sky jewel. Burning gold into blue.

Think It Is Forever

"We are like butterflies 
who flutter for a day 
and think it is forever."
~ Carl Sagan

Portals of Discovery

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

~ James Joyce

Perpetual Kindness

"Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, 

more beautiful than perpetual kindness."

 ~ Leo Tolstoy

Masterpiece of Man

"The great and glorious masterpiece of man 

is how to live with a purpose."

~ Michel de Montaigne

Banana Pancakes

"Maybe we can sleep in

Make you banana pancakes

Pretend like it's the weekend now."

~ Jack Johnson

7:07 AM: Banana pancakes and my sky. These pancakes are leftovers, made six months ago and frozen and then I found great organic bananas yesterday at Ingles Market, so this was an easy meal fix. (I decided to pause and pamper myself -- still working on my taxes.)

This morning the beauty is a celebration of grays.

Rise to Greatness

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness 

if greatness is expected of him. " 

~ John Steinbeck

6:54 AM: Glorious color and light in the clouds above Asheville this morning. And the trees stand firm against the honest sky...

The Excursion

"The excursion is the same 

when you go looking for your sorrow 

as when you go looking for your joy."

~ Eudora Welty

Did I tell you that I bought a new chair for me to sit and watch the sunrise?

Hard Work

"Miracles come after a lot of hard work."

~ Sue Bender

Great delight this morning, working in my garden, moving rocks and mulch, listening to the birds sing, and watching the sun rise.

In the Living Present!

"Act, act in the living present!"

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Color of Shadows

"Daydreams, as it were… I look out the window sometimes 

to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, 

but when I get ready to paint

 I just close my eyes and imagine a scene."

~ Grandma Moses

Words Are My Life

"Words are my life.
I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings."

~ Emily Dickinson

A Wondrous Phenomenon

Rising sun shines on Mos Way

"Life is a wondrous phenomenon."

~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Through My Eyes

"I see through my eyes, not with them."

~ William Blake