A Good Heart

"A good heart's worth gold."

~ William Shakespeare

My home in Asheville is on the top of a mountain ridge. Every morning a glorious sunrise crests with light and love. I believe that the sun feeds our creativity and helps me in my practice of living with aloha. With my art, I share my heart with each of you…

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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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Also Dream Beings

"All human beings are also dream beings. 

Dreaming ties all mankind together."

~ Jack Kerouac

Happy Easter

"How different our lives are

 when we really know what is 

deeply important to us, 

and keeping that picture in mind, 

we manage ourselves each day 

to be and to do what really matters most."

~ Stephen R. Covey

A Secret About a Secret

"A photograph is a secret about a secret.

The more it tells you the less you know."

~ Diane Arbus

Watch With Glittering Eyes

"Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, 

because the greatest secrets are always hidden 

in the most unlikely places. 

Those who don’t who don’t believe 

in magic will never find it."

~ Roald Dahl

Attempt To Understand

"Empathy does not mean 

that we must accept the other’s view. 

It simply means that we are willing 

to attempt to understand it."

~ Leo Buscaglia

I photographed a golden sunrise this morning, very nice, but soon after the crest, as I was preparing Kolo's insulin and breakfast, I noticed how glorious the risen sun was through the dining room window. I could not resist the shot.

Newly Fallen Snow

"Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. 

Where I choose to walk, 
every step will show."

~ Denis Waitley

With first light this morning, a surprise: about 1/2 inch of snow. What delight. With this white frosting, the ordinary takes on a new appearance. 

Fill the Brain

"Fill the brain with high thoughts, 

highest ideals, place them day and 

night before you, 

and out of that will come Great work."

~ Vivekananda

Belonging There

"Being with you is like walking on a very clear morning-- 

definitely the sensation of belonging there."

~ E. B. White

Create a Spark

7:43 AM

"The artist must create a spark 

before he can make a fire 

and before art is born, 

the artist must be ready 

to be consumed by the fire 

of his own creation."

~ Auguste Rodin

The Moon

Still the crescent moon, just a whisper at dawn.

"A Poet... has no Identity--

he is continually... filling some other Body--

the Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women."

~ John Keats

I Choose to Live

"Every breath I take becomes deeper, 

and I become more confident of myself 

without my crutches. 

The lies I've filled 

my body and soul with 

aren't needed anymore. 

They're not welcome. 

I choose to live, not just exist."

~ James Hetfield

Think Big

"Think big and don't listen to people 

who tell you it can't be done. 

Life's too short to think small."

~ Tim Ferriss

Market Exchange

"Every modern artist who has chosen to labor with a gift

must sooner or later wonder how he or she is to survive 

in a society dominated by market exchange."

~ Lewis Hyde

A Different Part of Us

"Artists speak to a different part of us, 

bypassing the cloudy filter of reason 

and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind."

~ Wes Nisker

Little By Little

"All beginnings are somewhat strange; 

but we must have patience, and little by little, 

we shall find things, which at first were obscure, 

becoming clearer."

~ Vincent De Paul

Grace Perfected

"Grace is but glory begun,

 and glory is but grace perfected."

~ Jonathan Edwards

Trust the Dreams

"In the depths of your hopes and desires 

lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; 

and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow 

your heart dreams of spring. 

Trust the dreams, for in them 

is hidden the gate to eternity."

~ Kahlil Gibran

With my precious Kolo

Snow and bare trees. Textures and lines. Nature helps me to see clearer, deeper.

The beauty defies words and touches my heart, becoming a wordless part of this enchanted life that I am so grateful for.

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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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Silent Knowledge of the Beyond

Out front

"In the depths of your hopes and desires 

lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; 

and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow 

your heart dreams of spring. 

Trust the dreams, for in them 

is hidden the gate to eternity."

~ Kahlil Gibran

Molecular Heart of Life

Bare trees out front

"But down deep, 

at the molecular heart of life, 

the trees and we are essentially identical."

~ Carl Sagan

The Wide World's Joy

"The sun does not shine 

for a few trees and flowers, 

but for the wide world’s joy."

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Dawn Is Always Rebirth

"Whatever else it is, dawn is always rebirth, 

a fresh start, even in familiar routines 

and worries charge in clamoring for attention."

~ Diane Ackerman

Having had a rough couple days, I am very happy to report with this dawn is the absolute certainty that rebirth is a guarantee for each new day.

Despite naysayers and critics, experts and cynics, I know for sure that the human spirit is inextinguishable. Each morning is a chance to begin again.

Spiritual Magnificence

"Catch a glimpse of your own spiritual magnificence."

~ Candy Paull

Listen and Feel

"Look at things and listen and feel."

~ Ernest Hemingway

Perfect quiet, perfect peace. Panoramic bliss:

Loving Human Soul

"Blessed is the influence of one true, 

loving human soul on another."

~ George Eliot

Made Double

"A joy that is shared is a joy made double."

~ English Proverb

Being Kind To Others

"Being kind to others 

is a way of being good to yourself."

~ Harold Kushner

Make the Instrument Stretch

"Challenges make you discover things about yourself 

that you never really knew.

They’re what make the instrument stretch -- 

what make you go beyond the norm."

~ Cicely Tyson

Limit of Our Sight

"A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."

~ Carly Simon

A Cloudy Sky

"I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky."

~ Haruki Murakami

Accept Yourself

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. 

You don’t need to be accepted by others. 

You need to accept yourself."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I seem to pay more attention to the view out back, but the view out front is pretty spectacular as well... The proof is in the panorama...

It Lasts For Always

"Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."

~ Margery Williams

Burning With Love

"A joyful heart is the inevitable result 

of a heart burning with love."

~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

You're Expecting

8:01 AM Fireworks!

"Whatever it is you're seeking 

won't come in the form you're expecting."

~ Haruki Murakami

7:55 AM

I'm on the deck and I am barefooted, enthralled with the dawn sky...