SUNRISE - October 11, 2011

October 11, 2011 Sunrise 6:45 a.m.

"At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding." - Norman Maclean 

SUNRISE - October 9, 2011

October 9, 2011 Sunrise 6:44 a.m.

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill 

SUNRISE - September 27, 2011

September 27, 2011 - Sunrise 6:32 a.m.

"In a true partnership, the kind worth striving for, the kind worth insisting on,  both people try to give as much or even a little more than they get. "Deserves" is not the point. And "owes" is certainly not the point. The point is to make the other person as happy as we can, because their happiness adds to ours. The point is -- in the right hands, everything that you give, you get."

- Amy Bloom

SUNRISE - September 15, 2011

September 15, 2011 Sunrise 6:22 a.m.
Sixteen years today

"Without love I can do nothing, with love there is nothing I cannot do."

"There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved."

SUNRISE - February 14, 2011

February 14, 2011 Sunrise 6:57 am

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."  ~Henry Van Dyke

Happy Valentine's Day 


And yet another  Valentine's day recorded, enjoying the gift of extended time with Lise and Sarah.


There are many ways to measure the passage of time.  This is my 3rd Valentine's day since Cancer treatment ended.  What great luck I have.


"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."  ~Garrison Keillor
        
rlw

SUNRISE - February 12, 2011

February 12, 2011 Sunrise 6:39 am

"How does a child spell LOVE?"

T.I.M.E.

Well worth the time invested for this past few days.  I am sure Sarah was glad we made the journey to watch her play.

Drove back from Disneyland today just in time to shower, change clothes and go to see Romeo & Juliet by the Sacramento Ballet.  Fantastic.  Tragic, but great love story.  Beautiful costumes...dancers were superb.

"How does a spouse spell LOVE?"

T.I.M.E.

We missed the boys when they moved out on their own.  We are starting to get snapshots of when Sarah will be out of the nest.

Lise and I have had kids in the house the whole time we have known each other.  Soon, there will be a time just for us.  We got a small piece of that nugget of time this weekend.  We are looking forward to more.

rlw

SUNRISE - January 17, 2011

January 17, 2011 Sunrise 21 am

"We should every night call ourselves to an account; what infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift." – Seneca

As we all are our own worst enemies and perhaps our sharpest critics, the daily calling to account the goals, hopes , dreams and promises made for this day will do one or the other: I will be inspired onward for yet another day with new dreams and promises or step back from my goal and give TIME the lead. 

Like a horse unbridled, rushing towards the unknown of a dark forest, TIME cannot be reined in or reversed, but it can be guided left and right, like a sailboat using the opposing wind to race to its desired destination.  It is not the destination, but rather the journey that is the best adventure.

I spent a bit of time working on my gratitude list at Sunrise today.  The obvious went on paper first: family, friends, shelter, etc. But, I soon realized that although these must be on the list (and sadly, some cannot put these on their list) I felt I needed to move up one category above things to the category a but more ethereal.

Love.

I am grateful that I am able to love and be loved.

The list is still growing.  I will share what is on my list, in no discernible order, in following posts.  Writing the list was an incredibly gratifying exercise I highly recommend.  Write down all the obvious: spouse, children, family, warm house, car that works, job that is secure, etc. first.

Tear that page off and put it aside temporarily. 

Now, start on the real list, with the caveat that it can’t be a thing that can be ‘seen’ or ‘touched’.  Watch how long the list gets.  As it is said, “The most important things in life aren’t things”.

This list, edited and reviewed daily,  will pretty much coat my day with Teflon where disenchantment and disappointments just can’t seem to stick.

rlw