View #9

Was expecting snow yesterday; maybe today. The sky certainly seems heavy. Manhattan really does look rather small sandwiched between the vast, energetic, ever-changing sky and the vast (yes, vast) river; it almost looks like 'the little city that could.' No wonder God loves us - we are so small and cute...; all our vices and hubris is just so much 'little tyke acting big'.

View #8

Dawn of a new day. Same view, different sky. Still unseasonably warm, but the wind keeps the haze away. We really do live on a beautiful planet.

Thought of the day today is a rather long quote from James Naylor (sometimes spelled Nayler) a Quaker from the 19th century:

"There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end. Its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exultation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself. It sees to the end of all temptations. As it bears no evil in itself, so it conceives none in thought to any other. If it be betrayed, it bears it; for its ground and spring is the mercies and forgiveness of God. Its crown is meekness, its life is everlasting love unfeigned, and it takes its kingdom with entreaty, and keeps it by lowliness of mind. "

I see this spirit in the Manhattan skyline.

View #7 Everything gets resolved into light

Taken in the morning on another hazy, unseasonably warm day in January well after dawn.

No thought of the day today - unless I think of one later on...

(Did come across something worth quoting in the correspondence between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle. Emerson says:

'Everything gets resolved into light.'

A beautiful quote, which the full text and context of which renders all the more poignant : he had recently lost his 5 year old son, and was expressing to his long-time literary soul mate of his inability to overcome his grief -'Doubtless the day will come which will resolve this, as everything gets resolved, into light, but not yet.')

View #6 60 degrees in January

Sunset on an unusually warm, hazy winter's day. Have been waiting for repair people to arrive. Sometimes, waiting gives you time to do things you otherwise don't schedule into your day.





Thought for the day:

Life is not a struggle but an unfolding.

View #5

A very January dawn. Came across this anonymous quote:



People don't care how much you know, they only want to know how much you care.

Does 'care' create this skyline? Somehow, I believe so, though it may not seem so from within its midst.

View #4

Taken at sunrise. What attracts all these people, all this activity to this tiny island?

Thought of the day: we may look good without our shadows but incomplete.

View #3: Another day another view

Taken at sundown. New Year's Day always has a 'day after' feel to it. My thought for the day:

For me, a day lived well has a serene, quiet quality about it. I would like to increase that quality of stillness and peacefulness in my life.

In fact, this will be my New Year's Resolution.