DON'T FEAR the FIRE...

"This is now. Now is all there is. Don't wait for then, strike the spark light the fire..." - Rumi

"...a forest fire. You can see it, taste it from a mile away..." 

                                                                                                                       -Denis Waitley

"The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet..." -Thomas Merton

 "I arise today through the strength of Heaven, light of the Sun, brilliance of the Moon...

Splendor of Fire, speed of lightning, swiftness of Wind, depth of Sea,

stability of Earth, firmness of Rock..." -St Patrick

"Sunrise. What is the name of the deep breath I would take for all of us? It is happiness. It is another one of the ways to enter fire..." -Mary Oliver

"....and give relief to those of you who are troubled. It is revealed from heaven in blazing fire..." -2 Thessalonians 1:7

"Winter is copper, autumn is bronze, spring is silver, and summer is gold..." -Matshona Dhliwayo

"You, darkness, of whom I am born...I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illuminates...."- Rainer Marie Rilke

"Words are only painted fire...a look is the fire itself..." -Mark Twain

"If someone strikes my heart, it does not break, but it bursts, and the flame coming out of it becomes a torch on my path..." -Hazrat Inayat Khan

"In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school..."

                                                                                                                          - Margaret Atwood

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire..." -Susanna Catherina Langer

"I could never in a hundred summers get tired of this..." -Susan Branch

"Summer night....even the stars are whispering to each other..." -Kobayahi Issa

"Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul..." -Paulo Cohelo

Photographs 2025 Campbell River, B.C.

SIMPLE THINGS...

"If the simple things of nature have a message you understand, rejoice, for you are alive!" -Eleanor Duse

"Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us..." -Albert Schweitzer

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things..." -Robert Breault

"Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God...." -Billy Graham

"Nature always wears the colours of the spirit..." 

     - Ralph Waldo Emerson

                                 "Rest and be thankful..." -William Wordsworth

"In all the things of nature is something of the marvelous..."

                                                                      -Aristotle

"Real life isn't always going to be perfect... " -Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Life is a series of thousands of tiny little miracles..."

                                                                                                              - OurMindfulLife

                                         Reflect..............

"Be grateful for every good thing that comes to you..."- Wallace D. Wattles

                                   Create more thankfulness......

"We must find the time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives...."-John F. Kennedy

"The simple things........the most extraordinary..." -Paulo Coelho

"Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, make you smarter , stronger and wiser than you were yesterday!" -Jennifer Young

"The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings..." -Henry Ward Beecher

 Photographs 2025

THAT HOUR to SUNRISE....

"DAY BREAK" by John Clare (1793-1864)

The red east glows, the dewy cheek of Day

Has not yet met the sun's overpowering smile;

The dew drops in their beauty still are gay,

Save those the shepherd's early steps defile.
 

Pleased will I linger  over the scene awhile;

The black clouds melt away, the larks awaken-

Sing, rising bird, and I will join with you:

with day-break's beauties I have much been taken,

As your first anthem breathed its melody.

I've stood and paused the varied cloud to see,

when day's first rays, the far hill top adorning,

Fringed the blue clouds with gold:

Oh doubly charmed I hung in raptures then on early Morning.

"What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?" -Margaret Atwood

"Every day is a fresh start for you. Every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written..." Juansen Dizon

Photographs (2025) Campbell River, B.C.