7:01am sunrise from 59th Place in LA

October 18, 2016

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.    …Henry David Thoreau

7:01am sunrise-NOT in a rare LA rain

October 17, 2016

If we just keep on dancing, we’ll be all right.  We can be fearless no matter what and know completely and forever that we are tuned in and tapped into a great and mighty power that wants only our joy and happiness.  What we realize is tha…

7:02am sunrise-NOT shows a splash of pink at the Malibu Pier.

October 16, 2016

If I had one lovely thing to say it would be about God. About the storm in me that has dismantled my linear thinking, upended my life, and exposed my withholding. …Reverend Safire Rose

7:01 sunrise-NOT shows the slightest 3 second glimmer just to the right of the Malibu Pier.

October 15, 2016

A door  may ultimately close but I need not be the one to shut it.

6:58 sunrise-NOT from 59th Place at Edgemar in LA

October 14, 2016

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.    ...Buddha

6:56am sunrise-NOT over LA from Mar Vista

October 13, 2016

Don’t worry about what the world needs.  Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and do that.  Because, what the world needs, is people who have come alive.   …Dr. Howard Thurman

6:56 sunrise-NOT from 59th Place in LA

October 12, 2016

To be an artist you have to have less of a stake in a stable, single identity; it’s how you function as an artist, that sense of being both inside and outside means part of you is outside.  You’re less invested in the consistent self.  &nb…

October 11 sunrise-NOT in Mar Vista

October 12, 2016

This one heartbeat of a soul is creating a new life. This one heartbeat of a soul is free. This one heartbeat of a soul is living the life that God intended. …Rev. Safire Rose

6:55am sunrise over birdies in LA

October 10, 2016

6:56am sunrise at Surfriders Beach in Malibu

October 9, 2016

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality.  It's a way of understanding it.   …Lloyd Alexander

6:55am sunrise at Surfriders Beach in Malibu

October 8, 2016

The next time you feel like God can't use you, just remember:  Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old , Isaac was a daydreamer, Jacob was a liar, Job went bankrupt, John the Baptist ate bugs, Joseph was abused , Moses had a stuttering problem, S…

6:54am sunrise through the portals to Surfriders Beach in Malibu

October 7, 2016

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile is the source of your joy.   Thich Nhat Hanh

6:52am sunrise over the oil fields from Mar Vista in LA

October 7, 2016

Where there’s a will, there’s a wall.    Where there is willingness, there is a way. …Michael Bernard Beckwith

6:52am sunrise from Ashland at 14th in Santa Monica

October 5, 2016

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all—that is genius.    -Ralph Waldo Emerson

6:51am sunrise over LA from Mar Vista

October 4, 2016

The Universe likes speed.  Don’t delay, don’t second guess, don’t doubt.  When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there, when the intuitive nudge from within is there , ACT.  That’s your job.      &…

6:50am sunrise over the oil fields in LA

October 3, 2016

Share your knowledge.  It is a way to achieve immortality.  …Dalai Lama

6:51am sunrise at Surfriders Beach in Malibu

October 2, 2016

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.    … Henry James

6:50am sunrise with surfers at Surfriders Beach in Malibu

October 1, 2016

Always trust your instinct.   Never doubt what you bring from the spirit world in your meditations. They call it heightened awareness, because your awareness is raised in that state. Do not doubt that, or else the …

6:48am sunrise at home on 59th Place in LA

September 30, 2016

We all know we may learn from our mistakes…we should also know that we learn little  from being right.

6:47am sunrise across the street on 59th Place in LA

September 29, 2016

Creativity is part of the basic ground of the Universe.  Somehow, some way, miraculously, new things emerge.  I say out of Emptiness but you can call that creative ground whatever you want.  Some would ca…

sunrisesunrise.com

I take photos of the sunrise every day….since 2001. Created a website www.sunrisesunrise.com offering them for special occasions like a baby’s birth, weddings, anniversaries.

First half of my life I lived in Chicago doing – jobs, school, marriage, MBA from the University of Chicago, jobs, with two fabulous kids. In 1996 I was gifted with a dream of Q from Star Trek Next Generation that changed my life. Q said three things: Who are you……..I want you naked……..Trust me.

Overnight my world shifted from doing-doing-doing to the journey within. I was guided to write a movie to be titled “How to Find the Soul (Using Your Dirty Mind) about this quest, though I’d never written anything before. Then in 2001 I was called to the sunrise to get a picture of it for every day of the year. Living in Chicago at the time, there were many days when the sun didn’t show up at all, and so it took me over 4 years to accomplish that mission. By then I was hooked, and now never need to set a clock to get up in time. Even when I went to Australia, was up on time for the sunrise.

The movie is now written and brought me to Los Angeles in 2006 to pursue getting it made.

I was totally surprised to find that it is possible to see the sunrise over the ocean at certain points in Malibu. Though the screenplay is not yet sold, I have spoken to John de Lancie, who played Q so brilliantly, and still hope to engage his participation in it. The sunrise collection continues to grow and now totals over 15,000 sunrises, many posted on Facebook. Contact me for the photos of the sunrise on a specific date.