SUNRISE - July 15, 2011

July 15, 2011 Sunrise 5:54 a.m.

...just in case I tend to be filled with self-importance and think that the 'things' I have filled my life with will have much importance once I am gone vs. any personal legacy left for those that live beyond ... I am reminded:










I met a traveler from an antique land


Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command




Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:


"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" 
Nothing beside remains. 
Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,



The lone and level sands stretch far away...

SUNRISE - June 26, 2011

June 26, 2011 Sunrise 5:44
The day was 1 second shorter

"The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success."  -  Hamilton Wright Mabie

SUNRISE June 14, 2011

“Life offers no guarantees…just choices, no certainty, but choices; no certainty, but consequences; no predictable outcomes…just the privilege of pursuit.” - Tim Conner

For Peter:

*  Half glass fruit juice

*  1/2 banana

*  1/4 apple

*  Blueberries

June 14, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am

*  Strawberries

*  2 tbs protein powder

*  1 tbs wheat germ

*  1tbs lecithin

*  1 tbs raw organic honey

*  1 organic egg (optional - worked for me)

*  ice

* Blend

I am walking, blogging testimony that you can live on liquids for easily two months.  Good luck.

rlw

SUNRISE - May 24, 2011

May 24, 2011 Sunrise 5:47am

     

      

      "This is the only chance you will ever have on this earth with this exciting adventure called Life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly and as happily as possible?" - Dale Carnegie

SUNRISE - May 14, 2011

“One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering.”  Unknown


Yet, once again, played at open mic night in front of real people tonight...could get used to this...rlw

 

 

 

May 14, 2011  Sunrise 5:54

SUNRISE May 12, 2011

May 12, 2011 Sunrise 5:58 am

"I don't know, but I've been told, you never slow down, you never grow old." - Tom Petty

This Time

Lookin’ back on my life Lookin’ back on my life You know that all I see You know that all I see Are things I could’ve changed Are things I could’ve changed I should have done I should have done Where did the good times go? Where did the good times go? Good times so hard to hold Good times so hard to hold This time, this time This time, this time This time I’m gonna find This time I’m gonna find Lookin’ back on my life You know that all I see Lookin’ back on my life Are things I could’ve changed You know that all I see I could have done Are things I could’ve changed No time for sad lament I could have done A wasted life is bitter spent No time for sad lament A wasted life is bitter spent So rise into the light In or out of time Gonna rise straight through the light So rise into the light In or out of time In or out of time Gonna rise straight through the light Woke up one other day In or out of time The pain won’t go away I am growing In peculiar ways Woke up one other day Into a light I pass The pain won’t go away Another dream, another trance I am growing This time, this time In peculiar ways This time I’m gonna rise into the light Into a light I pass In or out of time Another dream, another trance This time, this time Gonna find my way in life This time I’m gonna rise into the light In or out of sight In or out of time I’m still seeing things in black and white Gonna rise straight into the light In or out of sight Gonna find my way in life In or out of sight I’m gonna see the light I’m still seeing things in black and white I’m gonna see the light Gonna rise straight into the light I’m gonna see the light In or out of sight ’cause I know there is time There is time I’m gonna see the light There is time I’m gonna see the light There is time I’m gonna see the light There is time There is time There is time ’cause I know there is time There is time There is time This time, this time There is time This time, this time There is time This time, this time There is time This time, this time There is time There is time There is time This time, this time This time, this time This time, this time This time, this time  - VERVE

SUNRISE - April 23, 2011

April 23, 2011 Sunrise 6:18 am

“To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.” - Leonard Bernstein

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

SUNRISE - April 22, 2011

April 22, 2011 Sunrise 6:19 am

"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around." - Henry David Thoreau




"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau

Las Vegas  'The Venetian'

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life." -  Bertolt Brecht

SUNRISE - April 9, 2011

“I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.” - Stephenie Meyer

April 9, 2011 Sunrise 6:37am

“Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.” - Robin Green 

SUNRISE - April 7, 2011

“Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” ~Mark Twain



I would very seriously doubt that the mourners at your final goodbye will include your BMW and Gucci shoes (unless you are buried with them).  So how is your wealth counted; in volume of dollars or depth of relationships?
- Robert Welton


“That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.”
~Emily Dickinson

Unlike childhood games or Nintendo, the game of LIFE has no 'do-overs" or reset buttons.  You can, however, turn the final tide in your favor to determine a more satisfactory outcome at the conclusion of your game.  Play hard.  Finish Well.
-Robert Welton