Re-composition

My heart is heavy this morning, word from Hawaii is my beloved great Uncle Joe is dying. There are not enough tears. His Celebration ...& Of course, the sky responds with a glorious, comforting rainbow of colors.

"I think of my art as a process
of re-composition in which forgotten and unwanted objects
are orchestrated into a new synthesis—
one that will, I hope, provoke viewers."

~ Launa Romoff

Every morning, while waiting for the sun to rise, I look down from my ridge to the cove below. Often from my perch, I watch this farm and these cows. I dream, imagine. Plan. Pray. Looking at them gives me such peace.


I thought it would be nice to ride down the 1/2 mile to the bottom of my road and catch the sun coming up over the farm. As usually happens, the shot turned out better than I imagined...

Golden Eternity

 Sometimes I think I am just one with the sun... 

"Remember the golden eternity is yourself."

 ~ Jack Kerouac

Too Wonderful

"Life is too wonderful for us to truly appreciate it."

~ Thornton Wilder

This golden time, waiting for sun to crest is all-wonder... Photo ...At the same time, I feel insignificant... & powerful.

Lamp of Heaven

"The glorious lamp of Heaven, the sun."

~ Robert Herrick

Life like my photo lens can be obscure. Some problems come with blurred solutions. When this happens, when I can't decide, I wait. Time helps me to find a clearer picture. Usually one more creative.

Love Winter

"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of Genius."

~ Pietro Aretino

Just a sprinkling of snow overnight. Enough to make the cove look wintery: Celebrations & Sunrises Photo ...Spectacular, invigorating, cloud & color passion sunrise. Of course.

Love & Patience

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."
~ Daisaku Ikeda

This morning, I relax with the sun and try to fill myself with kindness. I am letting the silence teach me patience and love. 

To Be Successful

 Absolutely, spectacularly gorgeous outside. The sky is ablaze with gold orange clouds. Good morning aloha, 2012! ...Clouds gliding right to left. Golden overhead. Color. Wow.

"If you want to be successful, it's just this simple: Know what you're doing. Love what you're doing. And believe in what you're doing. " 

~ Will Rogers

Good Day's Work

Happy New Year Celebration

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work,
from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."
~ Henri Matisse

Golden sunrise coming: Photo ♥ ...Waiting for the sun. Loving the gold sky. Makes me feel life is all possibilities. Moments for creativity and the sharing of aloha... "aloha & samurai spirits." I just love that. TY! @Ryoshi1974en ...Sky toward Asheville glows color. Just a few beautiful clouds. Clear, clear day. Photo ♥ ...Much too bright to look at straight on. hmmm. Am I talking about the sun... or our dear @michaelfmuller. // (ˆ◡ˆ)❀

Find Time

"We all find time to do what we really want to do." 

~ William Feather

Oh glow. waiting for the sun... Photo Bright, bright light. Immense feeling of hope & goodwill... Make it a good day.

Thing You Love

"You will see a lot of things,
But they will mean nothing to you
 if you lose sight of the thing you love."
 ~ Oliver Sacks

Brrrr! Waiting for the sun to crest and it's gorgeous out here... Photo ❤ Love this golden baby blue sky. Very light & lovely.

Morning Star

"The sun is but a morning star."

 ~ Henry David Thoreau

Right Words

"One day I will find the right words,
and they will be simple." 

~ Jack Kerouac

Got a lovely solar globe wind chime for Christmas. Now I can watch the sun's reflection in a new way...

Love

"We love the things we love for what they are."

 ~ Robert Frost

Am I?

"But what am I? An infant crying in the night: 

An infant crying for the light:

 And with no language but a cry."

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sword of Light

"Out of the scabbard of the night,
By God's hand drawn,

Flashes his shining sword of Light,
And lo, the dawn!"
~ Frank Dempster Sherman

Fog... And light.... And breathtaking beauty on the ridge. Photos will not do it justice... changing as I post this. Colors & Light! Photo ♥...Completely blanketed in fog. Photo ♥ ...Drama. Fog. Wet air. Cold. Light, Blurred reality. Sensual. Fantastic! Photo ♥...Am I completely buried in fog? Or am I being transported in a gigantic cloud?

Opening

"Christmas is not as much about
opening our presents as opening our hearts."

 ~ Janice Maeditere

Peculiar Unfathomable Combination

Happy Birthday, Steven

"Love involves
a peculiar unfathomable combination
of understanding and misunderstanding." 

~ Diane Arbus

Holy Spirit

"A  Holy spirit lives within you."

~ Leo Tolstoy

Hot coffee & cold toes. waiting for the sun. :) Photo ...Waiting for my sun to crest. It is so holy, this still and clear morning...

Gift of God

"Beauty is the gift of God."

~ Aristotle

Always the Language

"I learned that to be amusing
was not to be frivolous
 and that language – always the language –
was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry."

~ Christopher Hitchens

oh... God... the sky is afire & I'm catching my breath. So beautiful outside! ...As luck would have it, the sun was swallowed by the clouds before it crested. But will share the sky I say my prayers to and wish you an excellent day.

Enjoy It

"The best way to pay for a lovely moment

is to enjoy it."

~ Richard Bach

Two Eyes

"My object in living is to unite
My avocation with my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight."
~ Robert Frost

Live!

"Live to the point of tears."
~ Albert Camus

The cove is buried in fog this morning. A plane soars across the skyline. Am waiting for the sun to crest... Spectacular, glorious sunrise...

Significance

"I feel the capacity to care
is the thing which gives life its deepest significance."
~ Pablo Casals

Will be driving into sun. Heading off to Charlotte, NC for personal business. Will take my time & enjoy the day. (Love visiting Charlotte.) ...Lights of Asheville glow like stars. Clouds are puffs of gray goodness. Dawn. ...Kindness... then spread kindness jelly some more.

Being Good

"Early in life—I was two, maybe three—

I developed what I would

call a 'sensitivity to good'
with a capital G—
what a man should be doing in this life.
That was my purpose in life,
I discovered: being good."

~ Aaron Feuerstein

Gold... My ridge glows golden as I wait for sun to crest. Cold. Invigorating. Life-affirming morning.

Sweetness of Life

"By home, we mean a place
in which the mind can settle…
a refuge to which we flee
in the expectation of finding
those calm pleasures,
those soothing kindnesses,
which are the sweetness of life."
~ James Bean

Counting My Blessings

Waipahu, Oahu

"When I started counting my blessings,
my whole life turned around."
~ Willie Nelson

Overcast this morning, but still, the sun comes through. I am at Patsy Mink Park, watching my nephew play Freshman baseball. What a wonderful gift, this day is!

Wonder

Kailua, Oahu

"Philosophy begins in wonder."
~ Plato

Fire

Moana Hotel at dawn, Waikiki

"The Islands were born in fire, far from human eyes."
 ~ Rita Ariyoshi

My brother said, "Go sit over there so I can take a picture of you with Diamond Head in the background."

I did.

Your Daily Life

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."
~ Kahlil Gibran

Hawaiian Heart

Waikiki, Oahu

"Make good the good in you…
and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart,
which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness."
~ Jack London

Going On

"Going on means going far,
going far means returning."
~ Lao Tzu

Certainly overpacking for tomorrow's flight to HNL. Excited. & Distracted by sky... So, you are giving me this magnificent sky this morn so I remember to return to Asheville? Wow. Rapidly, vibrant colors of orange, red, blue. The sky is on fire...Well, my friends... No crest. No sunrise this morning. My sun has been swallowed up clouds. Think, beautiful, gray clouds. You never know...

Hope, Belief, Faith, Victory

"Never talk defeat.
Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory."

 ~ Norman Vincent Peale

My Daddy's birthday and it is chilly, but the sky is beautiful, streaked with orange magic. ...One more... with . effects. 180 degrees turn, the moon winks. I oblige. ...I have clouds moving right to left, a fine mist in cove, & fast changing colors along the ridge. Cold!

Hidden Fire

"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
uttered or unexpressed;
the motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast."
~ James Montgomery

My morning prayers... & the beautiful sky... Holy... sky.

Busy

"It's not enough to be busy.
The question is: what are you busy about?"
~ Henry David Thoreau

Ability to Fly

Hey, it's 11/11/11 and I am happily experimenting with special effects this morning...

"When we become fixed in our perceptions
we lose our ability to fly.
~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

This Morning's Sunrise in ... Noir Blue.

Jason Mraz, ♪♫ ♪♫ Details in Fabric ♪♫ ♪♫

Required Beginning

"The core of Hawaiian healing way,
and still is, prayer (pule).
The pule is not just for healing;
it is also a required beginning
to any significant event."

~ Ken Carlson

And here we start... another new day ...Glow of morning. Anticipation. Aloha!

Survival

"Survival is a form of resistance."

~ Mendel Le Sueur

Bundled up, trying not to teeth chatter, waiting for the sun. Fog, cold air, colors. Invigorating. Life-affirming.

Heart Is the Healer

"I continue to feel the heart is the healer."
~ Joni Mitchell

Cares a Lot

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,

nothing is going to get better. It's not."

~ Dr. Seuss

No sunrise this morning, but the thick clouds have created a beautiful pattern of gray, blue, and light.

Art of Being Kind

"So many gods, so many creeds;
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs."
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Surreal fog & light this morning. Dream Dawn. Surreal Dawn

Sun's Rays

"Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand.
The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
~ Alexander Graham Bell

Daily Celebrations...

"Life is a celebration of passionate colors."
~ Leialoha Cator

Happiness?

"Happiness? That’s nothing more than health
and a poor memory."
~ Albert Schweitzer

 My morning dance w/ shadows & light Begins ...Color, anticipation... and a heart full of aloha: My sun crests. I never get tired of it.