SUNRISE - February 17, 2011

February 17, 2011 Sunrise 6:53 am

“The infinite is in the finite of every instant.”  - Zen Saying

 

   "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." - H. Jackson Brown

  Note to ponder:  Hearing can be apparently over-corrected like vision.  I had my hearing aids "toned down' today - more bass, less treble.  Every little movement of paper shuffling, silverware clinking, ripping off a sheet of paper towel, etc. was magnified.  At first it was merely interesting, like a magic show...but too much is just that - too much.  

My son and personal IT staff, Dustin has been saving me loads of frustrated TIME.  All the little, seemingly simple, IT tasks that I could probably have figured out "eventually" (if I didn't smash them first) were piling up because I was reluctant to invest the TIME to get them resolved, are now nearing completion.  Devices I was set to throw in the trash, because -since I couldn't get them to work- they must be broken - are magically working just fine now.

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 "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."  - Benjamin Franklin

  

SUNRISE - January 8, 2011

“Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite.  Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance.  Everyone is just waiting”.  ~ Dr. Seuss

January 8, 2011 Sunrise 7:24 am

Perhaps the immense value of TIME is wasted on the young.  Only as one begins to count the grains of sand left in the hourglass, does the true worth of golden time begin to dawn (the precursor to Sunrise) on each of us.

“Good things come to those that wait”.  (…Is an English phrase propounding the virtue of patience) Waiting for what or whom?  It is ‘seize the day’, not ‘wait for the day’.  How about ‘death comes early to those that wait’ or ‘wait not and want not’ or as Benjamin Franklin said: “You may delay, but time will not”.

January 8, 2011 Sunrise 7:24 am

"We wait. We are bored.        No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste... In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness!"    - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot