Category: Reflections On Sunrise

“The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time,
rolling, rushing on, swift, silent,
like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim …
like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not …”
~ Thomas Carlyle

The sun has begun it’s march Northward, and it’s rising will slowly creep down from 6:55AM today to 5:45AM in June.

Can you believe that I have lived here, watching this sunrise since 2000; Yet only in 2009, when I began to photograph it, did I come into full realization that it moved and changed ?!? read more

“The rainbow is always in the clouds, you just have to look from the right angle.”

Move to the other side of the house, and look what you have 🙂 We can miss out on so much in life, when we get caught up in our own little routines LOL …

Thanks Spencer!

All I kept thinking this morning, as the sun peaked through the thick layer of clouds is “Hope is on the horizon”!

William Makepeace Thackeray writes:

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal;
It will always be ahead of you.

I like that 🙂

“I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.”
~ Dalai Lama

Our overcast skies sure were a surprise this morning!?!

It would be a wonderful day to stay home, to create. I sense the clouds as a big billowy blanket, inviting one to be absorbed into all that is …. I love the universe’s way of being expansive and contractive …

In yesterday’s expansiveness, there was doubt being expressed by many that I came in contact with on the web. read more

“The sweetness of a life well lived can only be savored when our life has a great purpose. That purpose, that goal, is our own. There is no need to compare ourselves to others. We should choose our own goal and move forward toward achieving it in our own distinct way.”
~ http://www.ikedaquotes.org/life

Spencer suggested that I share the name of each individual island, that as a group, make up my sunrise photo each morning.  Just like our own individual dreams, wouldn’t it be tragic if one of these islands disappeared from the landscape … read more

“What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it is supposed to be.”

I’ll be honest, I was feeling a sense of disappointment, knowing that today’s sunrise couldn’t possibly rival yesterday’s showing. I even googled “let down” to see what nifty quotes came up. And you know what ?!? This is exactly what the author of yesterday’s quote was trying to get across.

It’s not about finding WOW is the spectacular. It’s about finding WOW in the everyday. read more