Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.

Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.

Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul?...It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult.And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup.Because, somehow, along the way, we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals – or just good ideas.And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.

I want to remember...Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day.

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.

It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.