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. 

Hard To Fool the Heart

"It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart."

~ Al Pacino

An Artist Can Show Things

"An artist can show things 

that other people are terrified of expressing."

~ Louise Bourgeois

Fearing To Attempt

"Our doubts are traitors and make us 

lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt."

~ William Shakespeare

Mothers Would Remind Their Daughters

Happy Birthday, Kayla

"In a perfect world,
mothers would remind their daughters
each morning of how beautiful
their strong noses are,
or how special their curly red hair is."

Bobbi Brown

Weightlessness

"It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness."

~ Isamu Noguchi

Pretend to Be Sane

"When dealing with the insane, 

it is best to pretend to be sane."

~ Hermann Hesse

Created Three Times

"A goal is created three times. 

First as a mental picture. 

Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. 

And third, when you take action towards its achievement."

~ Gary Ryan Blair

Heavy smoke this morning from the multiple wildfires burning thousands of acres across Western North Carolina.

Sung Together

"America is a tune. It must be sung together."

~ Gerald Stanley Lee

The sun is rising, but Kolo would rather watch the wild rabbits...

Light In the Heart

"Beauty is not in the face; 

Beauty is a light in the heart."

~ Kahlil Gibran

Capitalize On What Comes

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. 

Capitalize on what comes."

~ Zig Ziglar

Courage Is

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; 

courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

~ Winston Churchill

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Accepted the Sky

"I saw a star, I reached for it.
I missed, so I accepted the sky." 

~ Scott Fortino

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Orange

"Orange is the happiest color."

~ Frank Sinatra

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My Own Intuition

"I confidently deliver myself to my painting, 

and I feel most satisfied 

when I am sure that I'm not imitating anyone, 

but obeying my own intuition."

~ María Izquierdo

Nirvana is Now

"Heaven is home. Utopia is here. 

Nirvana is now."

~ Edward Abbey

After hundreds of miles of driving and sightseeing with my dearest childhood classmate Beverly, home still looks good.

Head On

"My only cure for suffering is to face it head on, 

grasp it round the neck and use it."

~ Mary Craig

What a Privilege

"What a privilege to be alive 

in this particular day and age!"

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt