SUNRISE - August 15, 2011

Glacier Bay, Alaska

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral. - Gregory Nunn 

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 21, 2011

July 21, 2011 Sunrise 5:58 a.m.

"He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived but lost." - Thomas Fuller

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 16, 2011

July 16, 2011 Sunrise 5:55 a.m.

   “I have long ago lost my belief in immortality – also my interest in it.” – Mark Twain

   Today's harvest from the garden.  A pumpkin.  A cucumber.  Two onions.  Nine miniature strawberries.  Need recipe.

rlw

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 - July 13, 2011

July 13, 2011  Sunrise 5:53 a.m.

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but don't tell them about it.” - Lord Chesterfield

SUNRISE - July 8, 2011

July 8, 2011 Sunrise 5:50 am

  




"To leave is to die a little... 
one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place."  
-  Edmond Haracourt

SUNRISE - July 3, 2011

July 3, 2011 Sunrise 5:46 am

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” - William James

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 - June 11, 2011

June 11, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am

"Discipline yourself to do the things you need to do, when you need to do them, and the day will come when you will be able to do the things you want to do when you want to do them." - Zig Ziglar

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 7, 2011

June 7, 2011 Sunrise 5:41 am

    

     Happy is the man who finds wisdom and understanding for the gain from it is better than gain from silver and profit better than
    gold.      

                                                          - Proverbs 3:13,14

SUNRISE - June 6, 2011

June 6, 2011 Sunrise 5:42 am

"Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things."   ~ Dale Carnegie

SUNRISE - June 4, 2011

June 4, 2011 Sunrise  5:43 am

When considering selling your time for anticipated success, it would be good to remember:

 “After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.”  -  Italian proverb

“Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.”  Angela Monet 

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 31, 2011

May 31, 2011 Sunrise 5:43 am

"There are many inequities in the world, but one thing we all have in common is the same amount of time each day. God has allotted twenty-four hours to each one of us. Perhaps, because we are products of our fast-paced society, we tend to think and act as though God has short changed us when it comes to time. It is not uncommon to hear comments like, “There just isn’t enough time in a day to do everything I need to do.” “I just don’t know where the time goes.” “I’ll try to find time, but I’m hard pressed for time at the present.” In our day when many people meet themselves coming and going, most people feel pushed for time. The feeling is that there simply aren’t enough hours in a day. Life with all its demands is far too busy.

We fill our conversations with phrases which convey the rush of our modern times. Along with the statements just mentioned, we speak of the peak or rush hour of the day, or we tell family members to get a move on because we don’t have all day. We regularly use words like urgent, priority, or pressing. There was a time when we viewed telegrams as adequate for sending vital information. But today, not only do we have the telephone, fax, email, and the Internet, but we have priority mail, even next-day delivery so we can send an important document or package the very next day thousands of miles away.

With all our modern conveniences and technological advances we should have more leisure time than any period in history, but the opposite is really the case. For most people it’s run, run, run, go, go, go, and so much so most people seem to be out of breath."

 - J. Hampton Keathley

SUNRISE -May 29, 2011

May 29, 2011 Sunrise 5:44 am

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

SUNRISE - May 25, 2011

May 25, 2011 Sunrise 5:48 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.”

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