SUNRISE - July 5, 2011

July 5, 2011  Sunrise 5:48 a.m.

"If a man does his best, what else is there?” - George S. Patton

Power went out for awhile tonight.

1.  I know where our candles are

2.  I know we are short on D batteries

3.  I know I am glad we have a gas stove and a BBQ

4.  I know the TV is not a necessary part of my daughter's evening

5.  I know it was very easy to turn down the volume while practicing my electric bass

rlw

SUNRISE June 29, 2011

June 29, 2011 Sunrise 5:45 am
Gained one more second of darkness

"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting."  -Brian Tracy

"Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines." - Brian Tracy

SUNRISE - June 10, 2011

June 10, 2011 Sunrise 5:42 am

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." -  Jim Rohn

SUNRISE - June 5, 2011

June 5, 2011 Sunrise 5:43 am

“If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars ... or your two legs ... or your hands ... or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find that you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.”

~ Dale Carnegie

SUNRISE - June 3, 2011

Jun 3, 2011 - Sunrise 5:42 am

“God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.”  Bill Watterson

“There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.”  ~Mignon McLaughlin

SUNRISE - June 2, 2011

June 2, 2011 Sunrise 5:43 am

As a vaguely interesting side-note, I am required by well-intentioned doctors to take a lot of pills.  Every day. To keep them straight, I have these little pill boxes marked Sunday through Saturday.  Two of them.  There is a large blue rectangular box that holds my obligatory night meds for cholesterol, heart, and blood thinner meds, etc.  Next to it is a smaller white rectangular box that holds my required morning meds that includes a pill to settle my stomach down from taking all the other pills.

Note: these pill boxes conveniently stack on one another next to the two types of eye drops I take every morning and every night for Glaucoma.  I supposed if the Glaucoma issues deteriorate enough, I won’t be able to clearly see the pills I have to take – ha.  Just inches away, is the tube of chloride paste I have to squirt in my custom teeth molds and wear nightly to protect my teeth from the ravages of the radiation and chemo treatment for the Cancer treatments that precipitated my growing fascination with the extra gift of TIME and what to do with it in the first place.  

Every Friday, the boxes are empty.  A week has passed. TIME to refill the pill boxes.  A week of my life has passed. What did I do with it?  I find myself measuring the passage of my TIME in the weekly required pill - box refills – a glaring and unavoidable marker of precious moments in the rear view mirror.

rlw

SUNRISE May 22, 2011

May 22, 2011  Sunrise 5:49 a.m.

"The essence of philosophy is that a person so live their life that their happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things." -  Epictetus

SUNRISE - April 6, 2011

April 6, 2011 Sunrise 6:42 am

"Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending."  ~ Author Unknown


It is often said that we lay waste to today by regretting yesterday and in so doing, set the stage for tomorrow.
- Robert L. Welton




"The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has."  ~ Hamilton


Time passes over all things as water over stones in a river.  Do you choose to be the unmoving rock in that stream, slowly worn away  to sand by the flow of time or rather the salmon fighting against the current forging ahead, spawning, creating new life that lives on?
- Robert L. Welton