Love

"Love loves to love love."

~ James Joyce

Find Your Subject

"You don't find your subject, it finds you."

~ Andrew Motion

So beautiful outside this morning, I am waiting out back for the sunrise. A slight turn to the right, and here is the moon out front, tangled like a beacon in the trees. I am leaning into the moon with delight.

Look closely. Watching the jets. I count five trails, taking off from Asheville airport, white lines in the clear blue sky.

Sunday

"Sunday, the day for the language of leisure."

~ Elfriede Jelinek

Your Own Resolution to Succeed

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, 

is more important than any other one thing."

~ Abraham Lincoln

Keep Looking Upward

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, 

and try to keep looking upward."

~ Charlotte Bronte

Wounds That Cannot Be Seen

"The wounds that cannot be seen 

are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor."

~ Nelson Mandela

Depth of Friendship

Ice on the deck and the sun rises to say "Happy Birthday Alma."

"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Even Better This Time

"I had to pick myself up and get on with it, 

do it all over again, only even better this time."

~ Sam Walton

Waiting at the red light.

Two Beautiful Daughters

"Hope has two beautiful daughters 

their names are anger and courage. 

Anger that things are the way they are. 

Courage to make them the way they ought to be."

~ St. Augustine of Hippo

Love Loves

"Love loves to love love."

~ James Joyce

Infinity on High

"Be clearly aware of the stars 

and infinity on high. 

Then life seems almost enchanted after all."

~ Vincent Van Gogh

What He Carries In His Heart

“A man sees in the world 

what he carries in his heart.” 

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust

This morning I got this above shot walking Kolo in the sunrise. As usual, she is camera shy. (She learned that from Clapton, turning her head when I point the camera at her.) 

My camera shy sweetheart

Diamond Dust

"Adversity is the diamond dust 

heaven polishes its jewels with."

~ Robert Leighton

A bit of snow dust and golden light. Diamond thoughts, crystal feelings.

Synthesizes

"An artist observes, selects, 

guesses, and synthesizes."

~ Anton Chekhov

Back home after a week on the road. Traveled over 1200 miles by car and heart. Visited Atlanta, Memphis, Little Rock, and Nashville. I had a wonderful time, but it is good to be home.

The World Responds

Happy Birthday, Rick

"If you are clear about what you want, 

the world responds with clarity."

~ Loretta Staples

No Precedents

"If you’re strong enough, there are no precedents."

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Your Own Two Ears

 “Make sure your worst enemy 

doesn’t live between your own two ears.” 

~ Laird Hamilton

Continuous Struggle

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, 

but comes through continuous struggle..." 

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

A Single Polka Dot

"Bring on Picasso, bring on Matisse, bring on anybody! 

I would stand up to them all with a single polka dot."

~ Yayoi Kusama

Find Your Spirit

"Find your spirit, and no challenge 

will keep you from achieving your goals."

~ Christopher Penn

Gratitude Will Make You Brave

"Gratitude will make you brave."

~ Awa Kenzo

Gold Like the Sun

"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, 

but hardens clay, expands great souls."
~ Antoine Rivarol 

Blessed By the Sky

Happy New Year.
Aloha, like clean white snow,
glitters in my heart.
light, truth

Gladness in spite of.

dreams
songs
newness
hope

My freedom is blessed by the sky.

Shade and Perspective

"There is nothing ugly; 

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: 

for let the form of an object be what it may light, 

shade and perspective will always make it beautiful."

~ John Constable

Life brings ugliness, but I never think "ugly" when I look up at the morning sky. 

It is true, if you look for the light, shade, and perspective, no object will be ugly.

A Song A Day

Happy Birthday Susi!

"A song a day keeps the blues away."

~ Edward Hays

This morning I listened to music as I prayed. You can't feel blue for long, listening to music and watching the sky.

The morning sky is surreal in its colors and light. Thank you for this morning and this opportunity to share this morning. I am so grateful for this sky, this life. 

We Change

"Things do not change; we change."

~ Henry David Thoreau

What's Right

"Do what’s right because it is right."

~ Chiune Sugihara

As We Grow Old

"We grow neither better nor worse as we grow old, 

but more like ourselves."

~ May Lamberton Becker

Under Wonder

"Bury doubt under wonder."

~ Ruth Radlauer

The Size of Heaven

"The morning's the size of heaven. 
What will you do with it?"
~ Mark Doty

What Is Hidden

"Everything we see hides another thing, 

we always want to see 

what is hidden by what we see."

~ René Magritte

On the Wing

"Faith is intellect on the wing."

~ Charles H. Parkhurst

All Humanity

"All humanity is one undivided 

and indivisible family, 

and each one of us is responsible for 

the misdeeds of all the others." 

~ Mahatma Gandhi

No Judgments

"Make no judgments where you have no compassion."

~ Anne McCaffrey

Refused to Take No

"I refused to take no for an answer."

~ Bessie Coleman

Let the Rain

"Let the rain kiss you. 
Let the rain beat upon your head 
with silver liquid drops. 
Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
~ Langston Hughes


Finally, the answer to our prayers: much needed rain. Hopefully all our terrible North Carolina wildfires will extinguish.

Gift of High Value

"Forgiveness is a gift of high value. 

Yet it costs nothing."

~ Betty Smith

Brrrr ice on the deck. Bundled. Watching the planes in the sky trailing. Morning.