SUNRISE - September 28, 2011

"As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" 


What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way."

- Sharon Salzberg

SUNRISE - September 26, 2011

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

September 26, 2011 - Sunrise 6:31 a.m.

- E. B. White

SUNRISE - September 19, 2011

September 19, 2011 - Sunrise 6:23 a.m.

"To achieve great things, we must LIVE as though we never going to die." - Marquis de Vauvenargues

SUNRISE - September 3, 2011

“Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go”.  - Josh Billings

SUNRISE - August 25, 2011

AUGUST 25, 2011  Sunrise 6:31 a.m.

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages." 
William Shakespeare 

SUNRISE - AUGUST 19, 2011

Alaska bound Princess Cruises 2011
Sunrise today was 6:25 a.m.

"Since I came to the White House, 
I got two hearing aids, 
a colon operation, skin cancer, 
a prostate operation, and I was shot. 
The damn thing is 
I've never felt better in my life.”
~Ronald Reagan




The quality of our time is definitively what we 
choose to make of it.
rlw

SUNRISE - August 5, 2011

August 5, 2011 Sunrise 6:13 a.m.

"I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person."   Og Mandino

SUNRISE - August 3, 2011

August 3, 2011 Sunrise 6:11 a.m.

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results."  – ANON

SUNRISE - August 1, 2011

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." -  Wayne Dyer 

August 1, 2011 Sunrise 6:09 a.m.

SUNRISE - July 31, 2011

July 31, 2011 6:09 a.m.

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James 

SUNRISE - July 29, 2011

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

SUNRISE - July 28, 2011

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.  ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11, "I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."

SUNRISE - July 27, 2011

July 27, 2011 Sunrise 6:05 a.m.

 

 "Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits."

- Robert Brault

SUNRISE - July 26, 2011

July 27, 2011 Sunrise 6:00 a.m.

"Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well."

- Unknown

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 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 20, 2011

   

 

 

It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not. - Randy Pausch,

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 17, 2011

July 17, 2011 Sunrise 5:55 a.m.

"Time is all you have and you may find one day that you have less than you think."  —  Randy Pausch 

Our grandson Kyan and the beautiful custom quilt  lovingly made by Lise.


As with all kids, he is most fascinated by the box.  

Somewhere in those last two sentences I think there just may be multiple lessons for all of us.


rlw