Around in Awareness

"Let us not look back in anger,
nor foward in fear,
but around in awareness."
~ James Thurber

This morning sky is a water-colored painting of clouds & light. Pastels and gold... Waiting for sun to break through clouds... WIDE open, beautiful sky. Clouds. All dreams & possibilities...

Crazy at First

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."
~ Alfred North Whitehead

Reach Out From the Inside

Remarkable sunrise. Open your heart...

"Without a noise,
without my pride,
I reach out from the inside.
~ Peter Gabriel
♪♫ ♪♫ In Your Eyes ♪♫ ♪♫

Clouds on fire this morning. Bold red passion. Sun is coming soon. :) I'm dancing here on my back deck.

Very Best I Can

ooooo, delightful sun...

Golden glow along my mighty ridge. Over Asheville, clouds are a red & purple mix...

"I do the very best I know how -
the very best I can;
and I mean to keep doing so until the end. "
~ Abraham Lincoln

Solely in My Tenacity

"Let me tell you the secret
that has led me to my goal.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
~ Louis Pasteur

Sheryl Crow, ♪♫ ♪♫ Favorite Mistake ♪♫ ♪♫

Winding Stair

Freezing cold... Just a light dusting of snow... another beautiful winter sunrise...

"All rising to great places is by a winding stair."
~ Francis Bacon

Another view of this morning's sunrise: Tumblr

Singing Bird

"My heart is like a singing bird."
~ Christina Rossetti

It's this moment, when the sun nearly crests the mountain ridge, when the day is pure and the possibilities are endless... Gorgeous sunrise. Full, full heart...

Another view of this morning's sunrise: Tumblr

Highest Reward

Snow is just powdered sugar on the back deck. Robust clouds fill the sky. Color!

"The highest reward for person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it."
~ John Ruskin

Loving Heart

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."
~ Charles Dickens

Hey Venus, you're burning brightly in the twilight sky as we both wait for the sun to rise. Good morning!

Cold, clean... Glorious sky... It does not get much better than this... I wish for all of you a day full of creativity, kindness, & discovery...

When It Comes

"When you are a poet, you are a poet first.
When it comes, it's like an angel."
~ May Sarton

Blue sky above, but heavy fog blanket covers ridge line. Valley clear. Clouds moving quickly, right to left. Wild air show...The sun is there, behind all the fog. Brightly burns my eyes. Will it break through?

Very windy... Clouds engulf me... wet... fantastic. Come out, oh sun.

Courage to Get Up

"Passion and hard work
makes a great player,
but the courage to get up
every time you fall
is what makes a champion."
~ Jeanette Lee

Own Private Literature

"The memory of every man
is his own private literature."
~ Aldous Huxley

The sky opens wide... Canopy of clouds and that gorgeous sun. I need wider lens...

Our Own Strength

"The awareness of our own strength
makes us modest."
~ Paul Cézanne

Our Lose Treasures

Happy Birthday, Dana

"It is the image in the mind
that links us to our lost treasures;
but it is the loss
that shapes the image,
gathers the flowers,
weaves the garland."
~ Colette

This morning's sunrise is all light... and love...

Something Better

Gray rain clouds with hope-full glimmer of gold. I'll take it.

"There is no medicine like hope,
no incentive so great,
and no tonic so powerful as expectation
of something better tomorrow."
~ Orison Swett Marden

Merely Inquisitive

"I have no particular talent.
I am merely inquisitive."
~ Albert Einstein

Sacred

"It doesn’t have to be somber to be sacred."
~ David J. Wolpe

Angle of Repose

"In the mountains where I live,
geologists and miners use the elegant term
'angle of repose'
to describe the precise angle
at which a boulder will rest on the side of a hill,
rather than tumble downward.
I think of that image as the point at which
prayer and action meet."
~ Philip Yancey
Prayer Does It Make a Difference

Remarkably, I thought all was gray this morning, but was treated to (brief) glowing horizon as I said my morning prayers.

Good Grace

Hazelnut coffee. Light dusting on ground. Gold blue twilight. No clouds. Mighty ridge. Should be clear cut sunrise. :) Good morning!

"Our lives are of great worth
if we accept with good grace
the situation Providence places us in,
and go on living lovingly."
~ Takashi Nagai

Choices

"You are your choices."~ Alexandra Stoddard

Can't begin to describe this sky--blanket of dotted clouds--across & above--in orange gold wonder. Unbelievable... Which one, which one do I post today? How do I choose?

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I choose all.

Elton John, ♪♫ ♪♫ Come Down in Time ♪♫ ♪♫

Singleness of Purpose

"You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
have anything you desire,
accomplish anything
you set out to accomplish--
if you will hold to that desire
with singleness of purpose."
~ Robert E. Lee

Hard for me to not believe in the existence of God when I behold this beautiful, fiery sky.

Your Motto

So nice of the sky to glow red this morning...

So nice of the sky to glow purple this morning...

"Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful."
~ Brenda Ueland

Everything That Counts

"Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted."
~ Albert Einstein

Your Deepest Presence

Sunset's gentle colors...

"Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror
up to where you're bravely working.

Expecting the worst, you look, and instead,
here's the joyful face you've been wanting to see.

Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes.
if it were always a fist or always stretched open,
you would be paralyzed.

Your deepest presence
is in every small contracting and expanding,
The two as beautifully balanced and coordinated
as birdwings."
~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Live Together

"We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Back from walking in the snow. My lungs are filled with the clean Twilight Sky, sparkling stars, and clouds gathering, waiting for the sun...Everything so pretty here. Cold, but invigorating. Conducive to creativity. Feel full up with joy...

Inner Fire

Apparantly it is -1°F on this back deck. No wonder I can't feel my face or fingers. (But the sunrise sure is pretty.)

"In everyone’s life at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter
with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the human spirit."
~ Albert Schweitzer

To Love Deeply

Let the sun rise in glory...

Oh my magic sky!

"To Love deeply in one direction
makes us more loving in all others."
~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine

First light along the ridge. Gold and gray clouds. Sunrise coming this morning. YAY! ...Two deer watch me watch the sun... Snowflakes... Red horizon...

Mountain and Me

"We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains."
~ Li Po

Organized Life

"Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life."
~ Immanuel Kant

Freezing outside. But the twilight blue, emerging light, & stars along the ridge cleanse the soul.

Quality of the Day

Orange sherbert sky and snow covered Pisgah Forest. Spellbinding...

"To enhance the quality of the day ...
That is the highest of the arts."
~ Henry David Thoreau

As For Me

"As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles."
~ Walt Whitman

Gentle snowflakes, glowing sun crests and breaks through the clouds. That glow, my heart. Love and aloha.

What You Do

Just a dusting of snow yet still so much radiance...

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with what there is."
~ Ernest Hemingway

Look at a Picture

"You can look at a picture for a week
and never think of it again.
You can also look at a picture for a second
and think of it all your life."
~ Joan Miró

Gerry Rafferty, ♪♫ ♪♫ Baker Street ♪♫ ♪♫

Live

Apparently sunrise decided to get even more spectacular & I need a wider lense.

"Live the questions."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Love Like That

Thank you, @primalmarks...

"Even
After all this time,
The sun never says to the earth,
'You owe Me.'
Look at what happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky."
~Hafiz

Cloudless sky awash in twilight blue, glows gold along my ridge. Venus winks a fanciful dream above. I wait, happy, for the sunrise... Now everything is golden. The sky, my heart, this day...