SUNRISE - August 2, 2011

August 2, 2011 - 6:10 a.m.

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter." - William James 

SUNRISE - July 29, 2011

"The dreams of the broken are mightier than the wishes of the dead."  ~Dodinsky

SUNRISE - July 25, 2011

July 25, 2011 Sunrise 6:02 a.m.

"If you are surprised at the number of maladies, count your cooks." - Seneca

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not." - Mark Twain

SUNRISE - July 24, 2011

"Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see."  ~Neil Postman




"Children make you want to start life over."  ~Muhammad Ali

"While we try to teach our children all about life, Our children teach us what life is all about."
~Angela Schwindt


 "A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice - especially when she's taking a nap."  ~Author Unknown







              ...happy birthday Sarah (finally a real teenager at 13).

July 24, 2011 Sunrise 6:01 a.m.

SUNRISE - July 22, 2011

July 22, 2011 Sunrise 5:58 a.m.

"To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is till wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best." - John Hall Gladstone

SUNRISE - July 19, 2011

July 19, 2011 Sunrise 5:57 a.m.

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."   — Randy Pausch

SUNRISE - July 7, 2011

July 7, 2011 Sunrise 5:49 a.m.

"Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?"

SAMUEL BECKETT, Waiting for Godot

SUNRISE - July 6, 2011

July 6, 2011 Sunrise 5:48 am

"A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist." -- Louis Nizer

SUNRISE June 16, 2011

June 16, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places."  ~Author Unknown


"When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

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 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 - January 31, 2011

“Time goes by so fast; people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.” - Cheers 

January 31, 2011 Sunrise 7:12 am

There is an article in the June 2010 issue of Scientific American entitled "Is Time an Illusion?"

An excerpt:

"As you read this sentence, you probably think that this moment - right now - is what is happening. The present moment feels special.  It is real.  However much you may remember the past or anticipate the future, you live in the present.

Of course, the moment in which you read the last sentence is no longer happening.  This one is.  In other words, it feels as though time flows, in the sense that the present is constantly updating itself.

There are some physicists that argue that there is no such thing as time.  There is also the idea that time exists, but is not fundamental."

Don't we feel better already?

rlw