Light Unto Yourself

"Be a light unto yourself.
Be your own confidence.
Hold to the truth within, as to the only truth."
~ Buddha

Clouds sure are pretty, but: Where does the sun go on a cloudy day?

This morning, my camera caught what my eyes did not... The sun rising...Subtle, but pretty spectacular... Then I go to dailycelebrations.com for a quote, and this one loads: (Truth Within)...Serendipity!

Daniel Ho: ♪♫ ♪♫ Lia ♪♫ ♪♫

Something Worth Doing

"Far and away the best prize
that life offers
is the chance to work hard
at something worth doing."
~ Thomas Jefferson

Sky looks like a lovely pastel painting this morning. Just me and the dogs awake on the ridge and we wait for the sun...

Strength You Possess

All love, pure love, as I wait for the sun... Lots of clouds this morning as color seeps into the gray. So much beauty everywhere I look...Well. that was spectacular.

"Life only demands from you the strength you possess."
~ Dag Hammarskjöld

All Things Good

Happy Birthday, Mom

"Believe there is a great power
silently working all things for good,
behave yourself,
and never mind the rest."
~ Beatrix Potter

Adam Lambert: ♪♫ ♪♫ Time For Miracles ♪♫ ♪♫

Timing

"Timing is everything."
~ Charles P. Ginsburg

Breathless I Catch Up

"From the glow of enthusiasm
I let the melody escape.
I pursue it.
Breathless I catch up with it.
It flies again, it disappears,
it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions.
I catch it again, I seize it,
I embrace it with delight...
I multiply it by modulations,
and at last I triumph in the first theme.
There is the whole symphony."
~ Beethoven

An evening spent letting go of loved ones... "Always let go with love," the sky whispers... Another red sunshine, stunning. Hazy, humid mist, and the cleansing roar of Rinehart pipes rising from valley below.

Thank you, Mountain Xpress & @michaelfmuller: My Sunrise

Neil Diamond: ♪♫ ♪♫ Be ♪♫ ♪♫

Stories Matter

"Our stories matter... Your stories matter…
For you never know
how much of a difference they make
and to whom."
~ Caroline Joy Adams

The air reeks with humidity already this morning, leftover from yesterday's blistering heat?

Full moon tonight, Bele Chere ends today... All quiet on the ridge, everyone sleeps. Except me and the sun... That sun just hangs there in the cloudless sky. An eerie poem, a silent omen.

Largely Speechless

"Experience is a private,
and a very largely speechless affair."
~ James Baldwin

Beautiful... Red... Hazy... Sun. I need a better camera...

Sheryl Crow: ♪♫ ♪♫ Sign Your Name ♪♫ ♪♫

Within the Sorrow

"This is what I have learned:
Within the sorrow, there is grace.
When we come close
to those things that break us down,
we touch those things
that also break us open."
~ Wayne Muller

♪♫ ♪♫ Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven ♪♫ ♪♫

With the Sun

The sky is so beautiful this morning. Orange and gold smears of dawn light. A gossamer mist kisses the valley. I wait for the sun...

"I am lit with the sun."
~ Sidney Lanier

Thank you, Mountain Xpress & @michaelfmuller: Here Comes the Sun

Precious Gift

"Every morning, when we wake up,
we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live.
What a precious gift."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Don't Be Afraid to Hit the Ball

"Be bold.
If you're going to make an error, make a doozey,
and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
~ Billie Jean King

Dancing as the sun rises...
Happy Birthday, Carlos Santana: ♪♫ ♪♫ Samba Pa Ti ♪♫ ♪♫

No Smooth Road

"Life has no smooth road for any of us;
and in the bracing atmosphere
of a high aim
the very roughness
stimulates the climber to steadier steps
till the legend,
'over steep ways to the stars,'
fulfills itself."
~ W.C. Doane

My "sun" rise is more "fog" rise this morning.. Still very pretty, but sun is blocked by clouds. Rapidly changing... Always feel like I'm channeling the sun here on this morning deck, today is all clean with endless potential... Big difference from yesterday & today's sunrise...

My close up of the fiery sun through the clouds looks like lava flow...

Find Ways

"There is nothing like returning
to a place that remains unchanged
to find ways in which
you yourself have altered."
~ Nelson Mandela

♪♫ ♪♫ Sunrise, Norah Jones♪♫ ♪♫

What Autobiography Should Be

"People.
Wonderful, remarkable people
are what autobiography should be rich in--
the people who make up
a person's real environment."
~ James Cagney

Some mornings are golden, some are gray... This morning's sunrise is wet with heavy clouds and hints of orange. Still beautiful, wistful, and true.

Joy Made Double

"A joy that is shared is a joy made double."
~ English Proverb

No matter what heartache I may have, waiting then watching the sun rise fills me with hope and joy...

Sunrise salve. Free for everybody. All you gotta do is be there... Clouds, thick along ridge, cover the sun, but the light still blazes through... Waiting for sun to break through the clouds. I know it will...

Dreams Are Necessary

"Dreams are necessary to life."
~ Anais Nin

To Love Somebody

"The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love;
this act transcends thought, it transcends words.
It is the daring plunge into the experience of union.
To love somebody is not just a strong feeling--
it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise."
~ Erich Fromm

While everyone slept, I watched this magnificent display of clouds and gold and contemplated how my house... my heart... my life...is full with love...

Only Listen

"Stories are medicine.
They have such power;
they do not require that
we do, be, act anything —we need only listen."
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes

In Rhythmic Measure

"The same stream of life
that runs through the world
runs through my veins
night and day in rhythmic measure.
It is the same life that shoots in joy
through the dust of the earth
into numberless waves of flowers."
~ Rabindranath Tagore

Stillness. Puffs of clouds are gray against orange sky. Airplane soars up into the color... oooh. Pretty. That sun knocks me over, then swallows me up, with its light... and colors...

♪♫ ♪♫ Vanessa Williams, Colors of the Wind ♪♫ ♪♫

Contemplated in Advance

"It's so hard when contemplated in advance,
and so easy when you do it."
~ Robert M. Pirsig

Drenched from humidity. Unusual sunrise. Perhaps the sun, like I, was spellbound by clouds' rapid movement and fog rising and dissipating?

♪♫ ♪♫ Shine, Collective Soul ♪♫ ♪♫

Listening From Within

"Can you hear it?
Your right brain speaks to you--
and guides you--in the subtle language
of impulses, feelings, hunches, and intuitions.
'I get my ideas,' said Edison,
'by listening from within.'"
~ Zane Vaughn

Subtle sun... Red, behind the clouds. Hanging there, like a mirage. No blazing light. Just waiting for us to take a glimpse... and listen.

Gate of Access

"Any object, intensely regarded,
may be a gate of access to the
incorruptible eons of the gods."
~ James Joyce

Silent, yet powerful sun. Rays shoot upwards, through the clouds, through the sky.

Wild, Unruly Things

"All of us need to keep in touch with wild, unruly things,
even if we do it in the tamest possible way."
~ Maggie Nichols

Lead With Your Heart

"If you lead with your heart,
it will carry you much further
than your brains will."
~ Sylvester Stallone

Gold, golden sun, blazing through the clean, clean sky. No clouds. Just the Big Blazing Star... And the feelings of leading with my heart and creative possibilities.

Do It

"In life,
you have to deal with your fear,
the part of you that says, 'I can’t do it.'"
~ Chuck Close

Nice walk w/Kolo. Nice spectacular sunrise... Not a cloud in sky...

...And Blues Traveler on my Sansa: Run Around

Dawn of Day

"Enlighten the people generally,
and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind
will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day."
~ Thomas Jefferson

Train whistle in distance. Crow perched on branch, squawking. Another red sunrise. THAT sun gives new meaning to "rise and shine."

Having a bit of trouble choosing just one sunrise photo this morning. Generous sun.

Full Measure

"A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the full measure I have received and am still receiving."
~ Albert Einstein

Gleaming Taper's Light

"Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
emits a lighter ray."
~ Oliver Goldsmith

Fog...mist...stillness...light. And the birds are chirping 3-part harmony... There's my surreal... silent... not-so-shy BIG red sun.