6:38am sunrise-NOT with a chance of rain in LA

In the light of a truly freed mind no prejudice can disguise itself as zeal, no bullying can masquerade as leadership, no pettiness can pose as importance. The freed mind will never confuse a sentimentality with a true emotion, an act of violence with an act of heroism, a slogan with a cause. Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they can't be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost… Robert F. Kennedy       

6:39am sunrise in LA

Rewriting separates the men from the boys. The first draft is love.  The second is sex. The third is fun. The rest are all pulling teeth. Getting that seventh draft done is like dropping your beautiful vase on the floor and trying to glue all the million little pieces together to make it look good again.    …Matthew Sand

6:41 sunrise not far from the SoFi stadium where the Super Bowl will be played today

The problem with “You should be doing better,” is that we become convinced that we don’t naturally excel or strive, seek or care. We come to believe that without tyrannical exhortation nothing good or excellent would ever happen. It is a lie. We are made to excel, strive, seek and care. If excelling, striving, seeking and caring were punished by death, we would do it anyway .  ..John Anderson, Ph.D

6:43 sunrise in LA

Let us learn, then, from those in search of what they have not been able to find and hold in the press of humanity around them: peace of mind, gentleness of heart, calmness of spirit, daily joy. Those who are mastering the art of flying solo and soaring to their highest human potential. Who have come to understand that to know and to love and to be of value to others, they first must know and love and value themselves; that to find their way in the world, they have to start by finding themselves.  …Lionel Fisher

6:48 sunrise in LA

We invent structure to keep us feeling safe.  But safe we ain’t.  Real life is too big, too awesome, too dynamic for safety.  And that’s quite all right.  Safety is over-rated.

6:48am sunrise from the basckyard in LA

Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits.   Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values.   Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.  …M.K. Gandhi

6:51am sunrise in LA

We must re-learn to be alone. Instead of planting our solitude with dream blossoms, we choke the space with continuous music, chatter, and companionship to which we do not even listen. It is simply there to fill the vacuum.  …Anne Morrow Lindbergh

6:52am sunrise in LA

What you see as stagnation is gestation.  You have to yield up things so the gift that wants to come through you can emerge.  ..Michael Bernard Beckwith

6:53am sunrise from our backyard in LA

The soul never acts alone.  Whenever the soul undertakes anything, there is immediate and direct assistance from the Supreme.  What the soul begins, God will finish.  God will cause it to be.    …Christian Larson