Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Shine on you crazy diamond

Daily Gratitude

  • This morning I've been watching a pair of robins outside of my window. They are busy! It strikes me that so much life happens without observation. Today, I observe and am grateful.
  • April showers. Here's hoping for many, many May flowers! 
  • My semester at school is nearing completion. I wonder at my relief, for I truly love my courses! Yet, I'm tired and ready and done...

Shine on You Crazy Diamond

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.

Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger,
You legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,
You piper, you prisoner, and shine!

Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and i'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,
And sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!

by Roger Waters, Richard Wright and David Gilmour.

Monday, April 21, 2014

Shine on

Daily Gratitude

  • Dreams. They show up in the strangest ways! What mysterious river do they tap into? The calling from deep within surfaces in bursts of inspiration and then again in restful repose. 
  • Today my heart is peaceful, it's filled with assurance of God's ever faithful love. Trite, you say? Never!
  • Oh, Spring!  I waited and yearned for your arrival. You're here and I'm thrilling in your verdant exponential creative force. 


“And like a colorful bloom of temporary lights in the sky, you will shine.” ~Chad Sugg