To Share With You

 

Asheville, North Carolina

"Nothing more do I ask than to share with you
the ecstasy and sacrament of my life."

Emily Dickinson

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The Free Soul Is Rare

Asheville, North Carolina

 "The free soul is rare,
but you know it when you see it -
basically, because you feel good,
very good, when you are near or with them."

Charles Bukowski

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Change One Thing And Everything Will Change

Daily Sunrise: Change One Thing

"If you can change one thing--
everything will change."

George A. Romero 

American filmmaker George A. Romero (1940-2017) specialized in the zombie apocalypse with his iconic film, Night of the Living Dead (1968). 

Who better to be inspired by Today's Quote and Today's Sunrise about change? If you saw the flick, you know the zombies just wanted to live and the humans did not want to die. 

Whether zombie or human, one change, even a small change, would have affected everything, in the film and in life.

What Would You Change?

As this video shows, there are some things you can't change--like your height or your eye color. But we know that true power is within and there are bad habits we can change.

4 Ways to Change A Small Habit

1. Choose your small habit to change.
2. Come up with a plan: How, when, where to make this change?
3. Stay focused on your goal.
4. Celebrate after you've made the change!

My Change? Eat Less Sugar

I have a sweet tooth and have been trying to eat less sugar. I finally committed to the change.
First, I thought about it and realized I'm sugar vulnerable at 3 or 4 in the afternoon. 

Second, knowing this, whether at work or at home, I removed all sugar temptations. 

Third, the plan was not easy at first, but I tried to focus on the goal. Don't give up. Research shows it takes anywhere from 18-254 days to change a habit, but the average is 66 days.

Finally, after about a month, I zapped the daily sugar habit. Hallelujah! Now I choose when to enjoy a brownie. And somehow, when I do eat a brownie, it tastes even better than before!

Today's Lesson -- Change One Thing And You Change EverythingI can make a change with awareness, time, and commitment. When one thing changes,  everything changes. And the next change will be easier.

Death Will Tremble

Asheville, North Carolina

"We are here to laugh at the odds
and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us." 

Charles Bukowski

Inspiration and freezing joy: I had an idea to take a selfie with the bright light, cresting with me... 

Me and My Sunrise

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Accept Things

"Our vision becomes very narrow when we need things to be a certain way and cannot accept things the way they actually are."
Sharon Salzberg

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The Hugest Gift

"It’s such a gift for someone to tell you the truth,
and it’s such a gift for someone to create art
with the mess and the chaos and the despair of life,
to have turned it into a song,
a poem,
a novel.
It’s the hugest gift we have
to offer one another."

~ Anne Lamott

My art for sale:

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Love the World

"In loving ourselves, we love the world."

~ Mark Nepo

Finally:
A rich retreat 
to listen to Nature and my heart. 
Again, atop my #Asheville mountain 
where time is warm joy. 
The morning is wide,
so is the pain.
But the quiet roars sweet love
to melt the hardness. 
So much love, everywhere I look.
The world is love. 
I am grateful and happy.

Courage Is

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; 

courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

~ Winston Churchill

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Accepted the Sky

"I saw a star, I reached for it.
I missed, so I accepted the sky." 

~ Scott Fortino

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Orange

"Orange is the happiest color."

~ Frank Sinatra

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Captured For Eternity

"A photograph can be an instant of life 

captured for eternity that will never 

cease looking back at you."

~ Brigitte Bardot

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When People Open Their Hearts

"What happens 

when people open their hearts? …They get better."

~ Haruki Murakami

This morning's easy equation-- Open = Love in, love out...

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Lovely Snowflakes

Asheville, North Carolina

"Lovely snowflakes, they fall nowhere else!"

~ Zen Saying

Cold air,

enrages the sky,
on fire

like golden honey and creativity.

We got five inches!

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Solve It

"The best way to escape from a problem

 is to solve it."
~ Welsh Proverb

Seeing, Hearing, Feeling

Asheville, North Carolina

"Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle." ~ Walt Whitman

The Gorgeous Clouds are a ceiling of midnight and sky blue cotton balls this morning. Stunning... So peaceful... & lovely. A feeling of goodness. Happiness... Now roaring red-orange. Passion... I can't do justice to the sky. It is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...

All Things Excellent

"All things excellent are
as difficult as they are rare."
~ Benedict De Spinoza

Our Resilient Human Spirit

"Man never made any material
as resilient as the human spirit."~ Bern Williams

Long Live the Sun

Asheville, North Carolina

"Long live the sun which gives us
such beautiful color."
~ Paul Cézanne


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Reflection, Much Writing

"Analysis, reflection, much writing,
ceaseless correction--there is all my secret."
~ Johann Sebastian Bach

The sunrise is a poem that writes itself.

Look at the words glow...

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Life is Sweet

"Life is sweet,
Life is all so very short,
Life is sweet."
~ Natalie Merchant


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