6:47AM sunrise over a jet landing at LAX as daughter Jess prepares to return to Indianapolis..

With gratitude say yes to your amazing personhood.  Yes without alteration or a nagging need for self-improvement.  Say yes to loving yourself with all your stuff, because Spirit made you just this way.  Know with me there is a reason…

With gratitude say yes to your amazing personhood.  Yes without alteration or a nagging need for self-improvement.  Say yes to loving yourself with all your stuff, because Spirit made you just this way.  Know with me there is a reason for your being.  Perhaps you cannot put it into words but your very being is extraordinary because there is no other like you and you were made to be here at this time reading these words, and never to lose that wonderful attachment to what is eternal and sweet and kindly. That is as much “you” as anything else,  You have come this far, not in spite of your experiences, but because of them.    Reverend Nancy Zala

6:47am sunrise from 59th Place in LA

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend -- to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it.   To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.        …E.B. White

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend -- to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it.   To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.        …E.B. White

6:44am sunrise from Modjeska Place in Mar Vista

Scripturally we could say that you are the image and likeness of God.  You could say that you are another way the universe becomes conscious of itself.  You could say we are the infinite field of unfolding possibility.    ..…

Scripturally we could say that you are the image and likeness of God.  You could say that you are another way the universe becomes conscious of itself.  You could say we are the infinite field of unfolding possibility.    ....Michael Bernard Beckwith