Fill the Hour

"To fill the hour--

that is happiness."

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live Peace. 
"E Noho i ka Maluhia"

Looking forward to 2013 with open heart, fingers on the keypad and camera shutter. Join me on this creative jaunt... :) ~♥~

Delight

"Teach us delight in simple things." 

~ Rudyard Kipling

Before the sun, a little bit of tangled moonlight

Dusting and great light

What We Are

"Happiness is inward, and not outward; 

and so it does not depend on 

what we have, but on what we are." 

~ Henry van Dyke

Smile

"Go slowly, breathe and smile."

 ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Ice this morning. Cold and beautiful... Seemed to take the sun a bit longer to rise and stretch over the ridge. Happy shadows extended over the deck... Rays of goodness. Smiles across the horizon...

Seeming Defeated

"The mountain remains unmoved 

at seeming defeat by the mist."

 ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Form of Confession

"All philosophy is a form of confession."

~ Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Uttered or Unexpressed

"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, 

uttered or unexpressed; 

the motion of a hidden fire 

that trembles in the breast." 

~ James Montgomery

All Things Excellent

"All things excellent are 

as difficult as they are rare." 

~ Benedict De Spinoza

Be Prepared To Enjoy It

"Do not worry about 

whether or not the sun will rise. 

Be prepared to enjoy it."

~ Pearl Bailey

Grace

"It is the nature of grace always 

to fill spaces that have been empty."

 ~ Johann von Goethe

Life is too short. Hurry up and love more. <3 So the sun glowed then was swallowed by the clouds.

Ease

"To ease another's heartache  

is to forget one's own."

 ~ Abraham Lincoln

Nature's Teachings

"Go forth under the open sky 

and listen to Nature's teachings."

~ William Cullen Bryant

Understand

"You never really understand a person 

until you consider things from his point of view." 

~ Harper Lee

Above the rooftop,

even the trees
reach out

to the morning.

Positive

"When you wholeheartedly adopt a 

'with all your heart' attitude 

and go all out with the positive principle,

you can do incredible things."

~ Norman Vincent Peale

What You Believe In

“You need all kinds of influences, 

including negative ones, 

to challenge what you believe in.” 

~ Bill Murray

Color Joy

Moon's dawn light

Kolo takes over the guest room

And this morning
as I watch the sky
Kolo takes over my guest room
in the same manner
She takes over my heart.

With the moon

and the sun,
and all the colors that come,

My life goes on.

Breathing in the beauty of this dawn.  Breathing out love. Good morning!

Moonlight

"Moonlight is sculpture"

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dozens of stars... And this very holy December moon.

7:08 AM Just a beautiful dawn. Colors of orange anticipation and possibilities.

7:13 AM On our morning walks, my dog Kolo sniffs and I click.

On this day in 1955, a historic day for American Civil Rights, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus. Her celebration: dailycelebrations.com/120199.htm.

Rosa Parks once said this beautiful thing: "Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others." 

Practice

"Practice what you know, 

and it will help to make clear what now you do not know."

 ~Rembrandt

Bonfire

"When you do something, 

you should burn yourself completely, 

like a good bonfire, 

leaving no trace of yourself."

 ~ Shunryn Suzuki

Seed

"Every adversity, every failure, 
every heartache carries with it 
the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

~ Napoleon Hill

Balance

"Live a balanced life--

learn some and think some 

and draw and paint and sing 

and dance and play 

and work every day some."

 ~ Robert Fulghum

Joy

"Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud--We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flow all the charms or ear or sight

All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colors a suffusion from the light."

 ~ Samuel Coleridge

Drums

Happy birthday, Kayla

"May she play the Drums to the fiery rhythm of her Own Heart with the sinewy strength of her Own Arms, so she need Not Lie With Drummers."

~Tina Fey

It is Kayla's birthday and the morning sun has given her a great gift...

Heart

"Above all, be true to yourself,

 and if you cannot put your heart in it, 

take yourself out of it.

 ~ Hardy D. Jackson

Little Things

"To those that have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, 

begin now to study the little things in your own door yard."

~ George Washington Carver

Happiness

Different perspectives, same sun...

From the back deck

From the top garden

From the side yard

"Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness."

 ~ George Santayana

Be True

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

 ~ Henry David Thoreau

Unutterably

Two jets pass each other over the sun.

"The laws of color are unutterably beautiful,

 just because they are not accidental."

~ Vincent Van Gogh

Tranquility

"When we are unable 

to find tranquility within ourselves,

 it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

 ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Illusions We Allow Ourselves

Watching the Sunrise With My Kolo

“Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There's such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do penance for all the other illusions we allow ourselves and the mistakes we make because of those illusions.” 

~ Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year

amazing day

 I went away for awhile and came back to Fall colors...

 Waiting for the sun to rise above the clouds... Look at the sky!

"i thank You God for most this amazing 

day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a blue true dream of sky; 

and for everything

which is natural 

which is infinite which is yes" 

~ e.e. cummings

Love

"The only solution is love."

~ Dorothy Day

Celebrating life, one sunrise at a time...



Wonderful

Outer Banks, North Carolina

"How wonderful it is

 that nobody need wait

a single moment

before starting to improve the world."

~ Anne Frank

Magic

Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

"Life is magic,

the way Nature works

seems to be quite magical."

 ~ Jonas Salk

Rebound From Hardship

"The soul gives us resilience -- 

an essential quality since we constantly 

have to rebound from hardship."

~ Wynton Marsalis

Tender Sense

"Just a tender sense of my own process, 

that holds something of my connection 

with the divine." 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Some folks miss the sunrise... Photos story