August 27, 2009

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. C. S. Lewis

NOTE: Summer is over. Should be more consistent again.

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space.  It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe.  It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.  ~Michael Strassfeld 

Barcelona, Spain

They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy. ~Star Richés

Shot taken June 1, 2009 - Overlooking Barcelona, Spain

Capri, Italy

" In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary" Aaron Rose

Note: Off theme - but this picture taken June 8, 2009 off coast of Capri looking back over mainland of Italy. Note the masted ship just off the tip of Capri.

Venice Sunset

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.--Augustus Hare

Picture taken 6/15/09. I know its not Hawaii and it's not a sunrise but I wanted to share. A couple more to follow.

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.  John Milton

Punaluu

“God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for tears, and light for the way.”

Kualoa

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me. Fred Rogers a.k.a. "Mister Rogers"

Against the darkness outer God's light his likeness takes, And he from the mighty doubter The great believer makes. 
Author: Richard Watson Gilder

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong. 
Abraham Lincoln 

Hau'ula

What more pleasant sensation
than sunshine on skin,
Spirit and flesh drinking in the light
Of God and energy itself.
~Emme Woodhull-Bäche 

"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity." Joseph Addison

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Punaluu

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore

Kahana Bay

Light, God's eldest daughter... ~Thomas Fuller

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.  ~James Thurber

Happy Mother's Day

One lamp - thy mother's love - amid the stars
Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before
The throne of God, burn through eternity -
Holy - as it was lit and lent thee here.
~Nathaniel Parker Willis

To rid ourselves of our shadows--who we are--we must step into either total light or total darkness.--Jeremy Preston Johnson

NOTE:  Noah in the picture - he joined me this morning :-)

Kaaawa - along Kamehameha Hwy

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.--William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

"Love is not consolation, it is light"  Friedrich Nietzsche

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.  ~Kahlil Gibran

Ala Moana - Beach Park

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo
NOTE: Was on the road driving during sunrise. Offer this shot off Magic Island - Honolulu - this morning - instead.

Kahana Bay

I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands. ~Jessi Lane Adams

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.  ~Joseph Joubert

“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.” Henry David Thoreau

Watch out, every light has a fire.  Kamaile McQuivey (6 years)

An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.  ~James Michener

Tuesday

"Love is not consolation.  It is light."  Friedrich Nietzsche

February 16, 2009 - Monday

Light is good from whatever lamp it shines.  Author Unknown

February 11,2009 - Tahoe, CA

If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. ~Jean Asper McIntosh

Friday, January 9, 2009

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

January 6, 2009 - Tuesday

There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.  Edith Wharton