Today's Sunrise Dawns over the Malibu Pier.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. …Howard Aiken
6:47AM Starbucks Cross Creek Drifting to Mom’s death. Telling the story of….Now all I need is an audience. It’s a bright sunny potentially hot day. I left my jacket behind and picked up the summer parka. It’s about time. Yes the sunrise was almost too bright. Uh huh. But thankfully there were just enough fluffy clouds to display some magnificent colors.

Today's Sunrise Golden over the Malibu Pier

The how’s are the domain of the Universe. It always knows the shortest, quickest, fastest, most harmonious way between you and your dream. …Mike Dooley
6:56AM Starbucks Cross Creek Almost missed the marine layer sweeping back over the rising sun. It was clear at the actual sunrise, too clear for a good shot. I was heading up to Point Dume but turned back as I drove into a thick fog. Even now it’s bright and sunny here and fogged in a Pepperdine. So anyways it made for a great shot.
THINKING how am I gonna …which is about as interesting as telling about my Spider Solitaire Marathon. Got the win rate up the 18%. Woo hoo.

Today's Sunrise and a Seagull Soars over the Malibu Pier

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" … George Bernard Shaw
6:58AM Starbucks Cross Creek Oh yeah. Diffuse rays spread over the mountains. Never did see the sun directly – yet – but it left its bright trail of diamonds on the ocean. OK The same old same old. Only feeling I’m closer to reality than ever. And that is totally false. I can only ever be smack dab in the center of reality. No matter where mind wanders. I am only ever right here.

Today's Sun-Having-Risen Right Here in Santa Monica

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. …Henry David Thoreau
Wondering if I’ll ever have another linear thought. Then seeing that this may well be the most linear I’ve ever been. Living straight out of all the fabulous images given by my dreams….better yet, living straight out of the heart. I celebrate a moment. I did it. I pushed Send and called John de Lancie and asked him about my movie. Told yoga teacher Bhavani how I conjured the moment of going into Wheel. The forgetting “I can’t.” Well not forgetting either. nor contradicting, denying…but leaving it be and being “oh yeah the wheel”, and so on up into it.
Haven’t gotten to writing sunrise yet. Sunrise-not that is. Mountains misty but there. Hope I caught a good wave shot. Seeing the peace I find there but that I don’t know as peace until now. Until I’m not there.

Today's Sunrise and Tribute to AJ, My Beloved Black Lab

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. … John Updike
6:23AM Starbucks Cross Creek Sunrise-NOT in a misty marine layer. Mountains obscured.
Remembering my beloved black lab AJ who was with me for 15 wonderful years. Thought today as the 3rd anniversary of his passing but find in my morning pages it was:
August 3, 2007 5:31AM I’ll put AJ to sleep today and so I write in bed. Knowing it may be too hard to write later – when Aaron comes with me to Point Dume and to Starbucks. I know my love for AJ doesn’t end today. I know and affirm that AJ goes on to the realm of the Divine. That his Spirit flows to his greatest yet to be. But first to finish this go around in this dimension, he couldn’t have done it better. The perfect dog, the perfect companion, friend to anyone who caught his gaze. And he doesn’t leave me, nor I, him. We are bound in a way I certainly can’t explain. I thank God for every single minute of AJ. And I welcome his transition out of that old broken body of his, yet I know I’ll be sad too. Soon enough. The finality of not having that fur to pet those ears to flap… this is life and life goes on. I pray for AJ’s transition to the Spirits beyond of Dad and Cheech, Lady and Toy and Fluffy – all the Saints who marched there before him. Let this day begin.
11:49AM AJ’s moved on. Already he told me it’s OK -in a vision of my puppy - my PaPoo – jumping about. AJ had a full morning at the sunrise and Starbuck’s and on to the summit up above Corral Canyon, where he braved lurking mountain lions. Then back to Santa Monica for one last walk around the block where I almost let him eat stuff but even so really couldn’t, though he did manage to cop a chew of something gross at Point Dume, so that’s good. We waited a while at the Vet. Aaron and I gave him a massive massage so he passed pillowed by tufts of his fur. Thank you God for the rebounding image of strong happy paws propelling AJ’s true Spirit in the AJ dance. I’ll never leave you, My Pet, and I know you’ll never leave me. We’ll meet each and every morning at sunrise, give or take a few minutes, mostly give, you know the drill. I’ll be seeing you in the dream realm as well. I love you always, AJ.

...and today's sun just emerged over in my own front yard where AJ spent many a day in Santa Monica.

Today's Sunrise in Sepia Tone over Malibu

The Universe likes speed. Don’t delay, don’t second guess, don’t doubt. When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there, when the intuitive nudge from within is there , ACT. That’s your job. …Joe Vitale
6:19AM PCH Waiting. Got the first NOT shots. I headed up to Point Dume but saw the marine layer thickening so I chose to come back here to the Malibu Pier for the dramatic emergence. Stopped at Starbucks and got my really good coffee. Oh oh oh, scripting John de Lancie. Want to write how do I do this, how how how. But but but don’t want to energize all that yadda. But morning pages are not for holding back. 6:26AM Oh crap. Surfer changing clothes right in front of me. Well I guess that’s the call to get out of the car. Aye aye aye. 6:46AM Starbucks Cross Creek. Then he didn’t even surf. Got half-dressed, board out, then put it all back. Maybe I made him as uncomfortable as he made me. Anyways the sunrise was grand. That mysterious sepia tone of sun emerging through fog.

Today's Sunrise Slippin' Through the Darkness in Malibu

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. … Henry James Starbucks Cross Creek 6:21AM Downright dark today. No mountains in spots but then brightening breaks through in other spots. Maybe I should be writing at the Pier, waiting for it. Maybe I shouldn’t be writing at all. OK feels like really old Monday feelings. Not yet at a beginning. Or maybe it’s just the music. “Now “I Just Wanna Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself” comes on and the world brightens. The sun will be spectacular if it does break through. Those feelings may only dissolve as I go through them. Let the sun burn through as it always will. Don’t wallow in the illusion. See how bright it is over there by Pepperdine. Yeah I want to get on out there. 6:47 OK, there and back. The perfect out-picturing of mood. And so now seems even brighter than it is perhaps. And off towards Pepperdine one solid patch of brightened fog still thick enough to obscure the mountain. Cool.