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
6:25 AM sunrise over Starbucks parking lot
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head. …John Updike
6:24 AM sunrise from 59th Place in LA
In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. …Albert Camus
6:24 AM sunrise from 59th Place in LA
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.
6:24am sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
Before sunlight can shine through a window, the blind must be raised. …American Proverb
6:22am sunrise in a smoky haze from recent fires in LA
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. …Martin Luther King
6:21am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
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
6:20am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
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
6:19am sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we have ever loved deeply becomes a part of us. …Helen Keller
6:18am sunrise over our backyard at 59th Place in LA
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
6:17AM sunrise from 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
6:17am sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
To get something you never had, you must do something you’ve never done. …Unknown
6:17am sunrise at Surfriders Beach in Malibu
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
7:15am sunrise from 59th Place in LA
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
7:14am sunrise from Modjeska Place 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
7:13am sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
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
7:12am sunrise-NOT in a dense fog in LA
followed by a full emergence….
7:12am sunrise over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
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
7:15am sunrise-NOT over Starbucks parking lot in Culver City
followed by emergence on Church Street in Brentwood
7:09AM sunrise-NOT in a dense fog at 59th Place in LA
Followed by emergence through the backyard lemon tree
