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!

♥ My Society6 Art Gallery \(‾◡◝ )/ 

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...

A New Beginning

“This is a new year. A new beginning. 

And things will change.” 

~ Taylor Swift

Just Let Awareness

"Just let awareness have its way with you completely."

~ Scott Morrison

Creation of Beauty

"Love of beauty is Taste. 

The creation of beauty is Art."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I live on a mountain top. This is how I see the world. Everything is simple, really. Glow. We all glow.

Peace With Ourselves

"We can never obtain peace in the outer world 

until we make peace with ourselves."

 ~ The Dalai Lama

Manifest the Divinity Within You

"Manifest the divinity within you 

and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it."

~ Swami Vivekananda

We Are Joy

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

~ English Proverb

First-Rate Intelligence

33º

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise.” 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Even when overcast, without a proper sunrise, the sky still shares such beauty.

Love All Beings

34°

"Love all beings; that is enough."

~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba

We All Shine On

 

 

 

7:17 AM

"We all shine on,

Like the moon and the stars and the sun."

~ John Lennon

Instant Karma (We All Shine On)

All Knowledge

"All knowledge begins with a question."

~ Neil Postman

Love Is Our True Destiny

"Love is our true destiny. 

We do not find the meaning of life 

by ourselves alone - 

we find it with another."

~ Thomas Merton

6:58 AM Today I will give my smile to everyone I meet.

7:00 AM: I will try to remember that my small light touches and changes everything. 

O Sunlight

“O, Sunlight! 

The most precious gold 

to be found on Earth.” 

~ Roman Payne

Rarest Thing in the World

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. 

Most people exist, that is all.” 

~ Oscar Wilde

Absolutely Free

“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, 

and they're absolutely free. 

Don't miss so many of them.”

~ Jo Walton

What Our Senses Take In

"We become in part what our senses take in."

~ Eknath Easwaran

Practice Shots

19°F

"An inventor fails 999 times, 

and if he succeeds once, he's in. 

He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

~ Charles F. Kettering

Chilly Saturday morning in Asheville, but still a wonderful sunrise. It is cozy here on the ridge and I have been working, with deep satisfaction, on dailycelebrations.com.  I just married an Instagram sunrise photo with my tagline. What do you think? I love the power of the Internet and social media.

My Father

“My father gave me the greatest gift 

anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” 

~ Jim Valvano

The sun crested the ridge this morning, then was swallowed up by the clouds.

Had my Dad lived, he would have turned 80 today. I miss him very much, of course. 

But if you look closely at this photo of today's sky, the light that breaks through the clouds is shaped like a heart.

Love never dies. It lives on forever.

Love Feels Free

“You must love in such a way 

that the person you love feels free.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh