6:47 Sunrise over LA from Mar Vista

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature.   …Abraham Maslow

6:51am sunrise-NOT at 59th St and Edgemar in LA

God, the Universe, is your source of all happiness, all your joy, all wisdom and all your prosperity.  God is the source of every good and perfect thing, and you are called to tap into the source when you are temporarily hypnotized into thinking that something outside of you holds the ans

6:51am sunrise over the Malibu Pier

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.   …John Updike  The soul is thrilled when Life presents a blank page because it knows the infinite possibilities born of faith and resides in the field of pure potentiality. Though the visible forms we desire might not be in plain view, this precious time serves the purpose of holding space for a magnificent demonstration of something real, substantial and everlasting.    …Caroline Magbojos

6:51am sunrise over LA from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista.

I want to follow where Spirit leads.  Not making things happen, letting them happen.  Showing/glowing/radiating the hand of Spirit.  Showing how Spirit has one’s back.  Showing how Spirit has our backs, our fronts, our tops and our bottoms.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.    …Albert Camus

6:53am sunrise over the oilfields in LA from Mar Vista

Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blind must be raised.  …American Proverb

6:55am sunrise-NOT over LA from Mar Vista

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.   …Martin Luther King

6:56am sunrise in Mar Vista

Our beautiful mind wants to protect us and keep us safe so it needs to know how it’s all going to workout before we make any move.  But life is calling us forward, to move whether we know what’s right or not.   …Heather Weaver

6:55am sunrise-NOT at the Hampton Inn in Chicago

Know that you are necessary and you deserve to be here because you are made in the image and likeness of God, and all of the qualities of God are within you.   …Rev. Nancy Zala

6:57am sunrise at the Hampton Inn in Chicago

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.   All that we have ever loved deeply becomes a part of us.   …Helen Keller

6:58am sunrise-not at the Hampton Inn in Chicago

Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public   …Winston Churchill

7:02 sunrise-NOT at home on 59th Place in LA

Life is not a duality; it is a polarity, and in Life’s polarity there is room for the paradox that it is eternal, yet always changing.  …Michael Bernard Beckwith

7:02am My Birthday sunrise over LA from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista

To get something you never had, you must do something you’ve never done.   …Unknown

7:03am Sunrise from 59th Place at Edgemar in LA.

God/the Universe needs me to empty myself out so completely that I become fully available for something far beyond myself to begin to animate my life, illuminate my mind, light up my heart and drive me forward into a radical way of being that will be an example for everybody else, of humanity’s potential.  It’s the Radical Call of the Spirit.   …Craig Hamilton

7:05am sunrise-not in a fog in Mar Vista

Words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.   ...Lord Byron

7:09am sunrise-NOT in Mar Vista

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.   …Pema Chodron

7:09am Sunrise-NOT in Malibu

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.   …George Lucas

6:10AM sunrise at the Malibu Pier

More than anything else, try to remember each morning -- before the winds of this world pick you up and carry you off -- that you want to be more awake to yourself than you were the day before; that you want to have more choices today -- in who you are and what you embrace -- than you did yesterday.    …Guy Finley  

6:10am sunrise over LA from Mar Vista

Everything that happens is supposed to happen because it does happen.   In the past, we would have done better if we had known better and had the skills to perform in a different way.      ...Carol Wingate

6:11am Sunrise at 59th Place and Edgemar in LA

People always say "Motivation is great but it doesn't last." I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily.   …Zig Ziglar