Very interesting sunrise rose into a magnificent sky only to be swallowed up, leaving it darker and darker instead of brightening. Don’t remember ever seeing one quite like it……
...If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. …Maya Angelou
Happy birthday to me! Magnficent sky for a magnificent day. Early call from Jess and texts from Aaron and Carol. Happy Day!.......
.................I have worried about a great many things in my life. And a few of them actually happened. …Mark Twain
Happy Birthday Eve to me! With an exquisite bringing forth the sunrise. Hot diggity! Cold diggity in here anticipating another hot hot day ahead…a scorcher they say. OMG just received an absolutely brilliant early birthday e- from Ida with photos and happy birthday’s from George Chakiris, Bernardo, John de Lancie, Jerry Seinfeld and even a Gladstone Bakery birthday cake. There are tears in my eyes! Oh don’t go Droid-ing away from this moment. I was feeling down then stepped up a notch by writing and then got the giant leap from Ida’s e-mail. But also seeing that the joy sprang from Droid-ing in the first place. Alleluia!....
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. …John Updike
Sunrise over fishermen at the Malibu Pier....
...Every life has at its core a dream that quietly and unobtrusively asks to be fulfilled. Each of us dreams such a dream. It is an important part of the original blessing of being in this world. . …Janeanne Narrin
Bright sunrise caught at Ashland and 14th in Santa Monica and I was there 5 minutes early. Took the time to adjust my camera’s clock to Daylight Savings Time only to see that I never changed it to Central Savings Time. Oh well most clocks change themselves these days. Not my camera’s……
.....It may be that the hero is one who discovers a benign power everywhere supporting him. …Joseph Campbell
Forgot my camera! Then forgot I have a spare camera in the glove compartment. Took the photo with my Droid which is really not up to such a bright bright sunrise. Aye aye aye.
Dreamt deLancie came knocking.
1 Darlene 2 Darlene 3 Darlene (like Sheldon on Big Bang Theory)
M: 1 Yes? 2 Yes? 3 Yes?
H: 1 Yes. 2 Yes. 3 Yes.
Still? After all these years? And yes KNOWING God is all there is. Of course. He still beckons after all these years. Spirit under a mask of de Lancie. Just like always.
Had to wait quite a while for brief emergence over my own backyard in LA.
To receive guidance, all you need to do is ask for it, and then listen. … Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
Saw a surprising sunrise that emerged from the fog on Modjeska Place in Mar Vista. Higher than expected. Following more traffic than expected. So let those expectations go.
When you know that every truth you seek is available within you, you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own. There are many roads to the mountaintop, but the only one that will take you all the way is the one with your name on it. … Alan Cohen
Today's glorious sun emergence after the sunrise-not earlier....in Brentwood.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. … Dr. Seuss
Malibu Pier. Daylight saved for later. Who figured that out? Sun’s not having it. Came up right on its own time no mattering what the clocks say. Didn’t Droid it. Got some very nice shots with its trail reaching out and under the pier with a gentle surf.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one…Albert Einstein
Sunrise at the Malibu Pier with a fabulous surf being surfed upon by lots of surfers.
Met Reeca for a Cranio-Sacral session for my shaking hand. She said I should rule out Parkinson’s. I loved her place, a Harry Potter house. And I fear I can’t rule out Parkinson’s Disease. But maybe Parkinson’s is my portal to a miracle. To keeping my perspective in life. As I shake so I shake leaving the opening to shake-not.
Give attention to the present; give attention to your behavior, to your reactions, moods, thoughts, emotions, fears, and desires as they occur in the present. If you can be present enough to watch all those things, not critically or analytically but non-judgmentally, then you are dealing with the past and dissolving it through the power of your presence. You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present. …Eckhart Tolle
Started reading Chuck Lorre’s blog that flashes at the end of “Big Bang Theory.” Sounds like me! Required a “pause” to catch it. Ok ok I get it.
Got sunrise on Modjeska early then wished I’d gone on to Santa Monica because it’s not a great clear sky shot . Well this is and that isn’t. What caught my eye was Chuck Lorre writing about early morning demons – the woulda, coulda, shoulda’s. I hear you Chuck. In that surprising media – the flash thought that has us seek out more. I hear that. Just keep writing. Who is this Chuck Lorre? The show runner for “Big Bang Theory.” Hit it big there. Like his show too. The writing and Jim Parsons. Yes, like that.
I’d much rather regret what I have done than what I haven’t done. …Lucille Ball
Oh yes, life speeds by. Was 2 minutes late because the sunrise seemed 5 minutes early! Whatever. I know I was to come here despite the reasons I should go to Mar Vista – to be on Time, to have more time to write. But I was called here and so here I am. Haven’t been here since Feb 19. 3 weeks. Ah so that’s how the sun zoomed so far north on the horizon. May be time to go back to 14th & Ashland while the sun rises behind the buildings at 4th & Marine.
Listening in to my seat-saving friend talking to a Bible thumper at the next table. This is how we are. We all have our way of being. Believing / not believing. Fearful/ confident. Sometimes this, next ime that. Seeing gratitude, yes. For this life, this exploration, this path. Seems not to amount to much sometimes. Thinking there’s nothing to amount to really.
Received the forwarded letter from Jack Miller, one who has faithfully followed his own path, like Charles. Teaching US to find our own way with SPIRIT. That’s all. That’s a lot. So their lives amount to much and maybe I can too. Maybe there is room for my kind too. I don’t take up much space but is it a waste what I do / what I don’t do?????
And so I glimpse a beautiful woman in that mirror. If she is beautiful, if I am beautiful, it is due to / thanks to what others put out there and what I then put out there thanks to them. Thank You God for showing me A way, not THE Way, A Way.
Winners never quit and quitters never win. …Anonymous
Ah bright clear sky presents a crisp sunrise. Glad I got there early as it was too bright to capture a good shot on the naked horizon.
Just write. That’s the just right path for me. That’s all. Whether or not John deLancie is ever impressed or even derisive. No, no, that’s not right use of this or any other day. The constant judging. Step up to higher ground and for heaven’s sake – TAKE OTHERS WITH YOU! That’s all I need to write. That’s why I need to write. Just because I have this gift that was given to me for no other purpose than to give it back to others.
Just keep going. Keep right on flowing. This IS it. Don’t stop even when there’s nothing there. Don’t stop to lament the 91 journals of mostly nothing here. Because what is there is worth all the seeming not good enough. All the days of our lives we don’t seem to accomplish anything. The Busy-Ness of life. WHATEVER. It just IS for heaven’s sake. Thank you God for Whatever. Yes yes thank you Spirit for this right here is my JOY. Whether or not anyone ever cares to read it, this is what I am here to do, just like this.
Just write it all down – whatever is here, good/ not-so-good, interesting /not. Just write simply because this is the work I have accepted. That’s all.
Tuesday 6:42 Starbucks Cross Creek Kousha, Michael, Dawn, Frank and Arnie – like the good old days. Everybody tells me about the magnificent colors I missed being 5 minutes late. How can I stay in bed all that awful time planning what’s wrong with the day. I could just skip all that and GET UP! And I…stopped right there to e-Ida the great sunrise I showed up for.
Yes I may skip the dawn gloom. When I choosse it to be and I choose NOW. Oh my, gotta pee. Breathe through. Just breathe through. Not rushing this day. Kathleen cancelled work today so she could catch upon entries I could do for her. Maybe she’s not ready for help and I get a day free to come here to Paradise. But I was late…stop that. I was right on time. The traffic was remarkably light after the 405/10 bottleneck. Yes I coulda/woulda/shoulda been earlier – but then I would have been right on time.
Acupuncture is all I have planned for this day. Texted Liliana that I am free today. Haven’t heard back. Melissa is disappointed in her procedure. Bless her to see the perfection she already is. Vanya said the weekend’s estate sale was the worst one ever. Hmmm. The numbers on the estatesales.org posting weren’t good either. Seems everybody “went away.” It rained and hailed even. No excuses. My hand seems to shake less today. Seemed to shake more yesterday. Let the chi flow today. See the bigger picture that allows for LATE sunrise photos. Refill? I got time. Then I’ll…STOP that planning to need to pee!
REFILL Living dangerously. I may even write down 1-2-3 pages with nothing to say. It’s not about story-telling for me. Like I know what it IS about.
Synchronicity I grabbed JK Rowling’s “new” book “Casual Vacancy” to have it in the car? For waiting time? OK Knew I didn’t know WHY as I grabbed it. Following guidance for its own sake. For my sake. Yes that feels very right. And I plow on to 2 then 3. Well I’ll see when I get there! And not one minute before. Not one moment early. Not One minute late. And I’ll hear from Liliana when I hear from Liliana.
Nope not one minute sooner. It’s called Divine Right Order. A new title for a new book to be written as best I can in the moment. In the sun-shiny bright moment.
OK Sulawesi dark roast coffee - wherever that is – Indonesia. Just think –not- about all the places there are just on this planet. All the places I can’t even imagine. All the things I cannot imagine right around the corner, near and far. Realizing that I may imagine anything. Or I may simply gape in awe at what is right before ne. At this magnificent place I happen to be right now – in Divine Right Order. Oh not, this divine moment! What’s so special here? Maybe Divine doesn’t mean special. Or perhaps Divine can only be special - the exact unfolding of what IS whether or not I or anyone else deems it special.
Ah thank You Lord – there’s Carl waving hello as he walks those dogs this special day. Checking for Liliana. And so holding her in the healing light. Yes I do still gotta poo so write faster. As if no one needs ever read it in order for it to need to be written. Picturing Kathleen’s where I’m not going. All in Divine Right Order. Don’t make a drama out of it. It is as it is.
That was the whole point of my dream. That we make it all up. There is what is and then there’s the story we make up about it. Casting ourselves as the star in any Academy Award winning role – with of course a handsome actor co-starring Thank You God for this being Justas we do. Oh my – another page and ¼ ? Liliana! Is she sleeping? Is she all right? OK /this IS IT. THE DIVINE RIGHT ORDER. To write one more page. Oh but I gotta gotta…write one more page.
About? Well I don’t know what. So I may draw squiggly things? Not right now. Make more big letters, keep this pen going, flowing in the flow of Divine Right Order. Where Frank reads, where baristas talk and music plays. And the sun shines bright on the mountains outside even when I don’t look up at them, keeping my nose to this last 2 lines of page 2.
Will I ever meet John deLancie? Are we meant to meet? Is there a Divine Right Order that includes that? Always seemed it could happen on a Tuesday. Or will he die before I get my chance? Will I? Waa sit ever meant to be that? Or am I simply to realize just how made up it all is? That my version is in Divine Right Order. The custom-designed handsome guide that’s been part of my life since Lt. Rip Masters. Perfect just as it is. Well all that’s fine but is it NOW? Is any other version of NOW possible? Absolutely YES. Since we make it up, all things are possible. That’s what GOD IS! All possibilities imagined or seemingly unimaginable. Life can’t get any better than this. Thinking I must transcribe this 1-2-3. Call it pivotal? It does not have to be pivotal, special or anything but the divine right order that it is.
8:06 PCH Oh yes we had a sacred prayer. Liliana was awakening from sleep when I woke her up. So yes. She claims confusion, confusing dreams. I told her I heard that as Knowing God. Knowing God can only be confusing. God is so much more than we can ever know. So there. Divine Right Order is confusing only as we see it, as we know it to the extent of our limited capacity to know. Thank you God for 1-2-3 pages to know You even for the briefest of nano-seconds. What am I to do? What am I to see? What am I to feel?
Traffic. Others. So many of us. Carl walks on by again without dogs this time. This IS it. This is Divine Right Order. Even if John deLancie never shows up in Reality – though right here and now I admit I want it to be so. And even that wanting is in Divine Right Order simply because it is. Amen
Sunrise over LA oil rigs from Mar Vista.
If you talk about things you have not experienced, you are wasting your and other people’s time. As you continue the practice of looking deeply, you will see this more and more clearly, and you will save a lot of paper and publishing enterprises and have more time to enjoy your tea and live your daily life in mindfulness. Thich Nhat Hahn
Oh man first it’s raining – really raining, not Malibu spritzing, so a rainy sunrise-not. But then Kousha, the barista, calls me to see its reflection emerging in the windows of the building across Cross Creek so I caught it after all
I don't know what's going to happen, but I know it's going to be GREAT! …Mantra
Right on time but didn’t realize the sun was showing on the other side of the Malibu Pier – a peek-a-boo. So then I waited for it to clear the cloud bank and got that too. There was only me and one other woman on PCH. No surf, no surfers. Even so, I’ve never seen it that empty.
You're not going crazy. You are being evolutionarily enhanced! …Dr. Jean Houston
Sunrise from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista.
When we are striving to live an empowered life, our every choice is important. Even the color of the clothes we wear for the day can affect us and the people around us. Certainly the attitude we choose to face the day and the people around us has an effect. Life itself is a choice. The choice of life is one we make every day whether we realize it or not. Every action we take either supports life, or not. We are the only ones who can make a difference - by each and every choice we make …Marie T. Russell
