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!