grace........................

     And now I remind myself that I must heed William Blake's warning not to attempt to cling to a sublime experience, but rather allow it to come and go with grace.  In another of his metaphysical poems, the four-line jewel called "Eternity," he writes:

            He who binds to himself a joy

            Does the winged life destroy;

            But he who kisses the joy as it flies

            Lives in Eternity's sunrise.

    I stand and raise my glass.  "It is a great privilege to be here," I say.  Then, smiling, I add, "In fact, it is a great privilege simply to be." 

-Daniel Klein, Travels with Epicurus

Sunrise.............................

     I had always loved sunrise:  was always renewed in spirit.  For all my life I'd felt cheated if I'd ever slept through dawn.  The primeval winter solstice on bitter Salisbury Plan had raised my childhood's goose pimples long before I understood why, and it had long seemed to me that dawn-worship was the most logical of primitive beliefs.

-Dick Francis, as excerpted from Wild Horses

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Just what the Doctor ordered.............

thanks jess

It is that time again...............

..............................................................................Rising

Renewal................................

I had always loved sunrise: was always renewed in spirit.  For all  my life I'd felt cheated if I'd slept through dawn.  The primeval winter solstice on bitter Salisbury Plain had raised my childhood's goose bumps long before I understood why;  and it had long seemed to me that dawn-worship was the most logical of primitive beliefs.

-Dick Francis,  Wild Horses

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Rising........................................

“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.” 
-Dallas Willard

Most logical.......................................

     I had always loved sunrise;  was always renewed in spirit.  For all my life I'd felt cheated if I'd slept through dawn.  The primeval winter solstice on bitter Salisbury Plain had raised my childhood's goose pimples long before I understood why;  and it had long seemed to me that dawn-worship was the most logical of primitive beliefs.
-Dick Francis,  Wild Horses

Beauty...........................................

Watch the sunrise.................................

I can feel it, now it's time
Open your eyes
Fears be gone, it won't be long
There's a light in the sky
It's okay to look outside
The day it will abide
And watch the sunrise

Sun, it shines on all of us
We are one in it's hand
Come inside and light my room
like the heart of every man
It's okay to look outside
The day it will abide
And watch the sunrise

I can feel it, now it's time
Open your eyes
Fears be gone, it won't be long
There's a light in the sky
It's okay to look outside
Your love it will abide
And watch the sunrise

-Big Star

Scott continues to broaden our horizons.  Music here.

Happy Easter....................................

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Sunrise.....................................

Present...................................

"It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it."
-Henry David Thoreau

Exordium.......................................

This terror, then, this darkness of the mind,
Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light.
Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse,
But only Nature's aspect and her law,
Which, teaching us, hath this exordium:
Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

-Lucretius,  The Nature of Things

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