John & Anne Wiley

2011/12/26

Over & In

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,People,Random,Relationships — John @ 08:46

This is an emotional time of year for most people it seems. Sure is true for me, with many inward moments. Thoughts of loved ones present and past. Feelings expressed, and not. Appreciation and reflection. Flying over SF was a new way to go in and connect again with Reality. Reflecting on past before opening a new Present.

8659 Constant Change

8659 Constant Change

The city so familiar to my last teen year, in the Summer of Love. Yet so different both over and in the city. Still many places I’ve not been, and impressions of where I could have gone.

8677 Birdman

8677 Birdman

The park I wandered with eyes opening anew, miraculous friends long gone in the best and worst of times, concerts and marches. All memories beneath wings aglow with beauty more poignant nearing end of day.

8698 Wordless Memory

8698 Wordless Memory

Then back to the warmth of family and exquisite joy in the promise of new Love and Life to come.

1731 First Dress

1731 First Dress

Happy Holidays to you and yours!

2011/12/24

Golden Time

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,Nature,People,Random,Relationships — John @ 17:11

As warm sunlight finds a path through the oaks and pours in the windows this morning, my heart overflows in this golden moment with family. The sweet sound of our grand-daughter’s delight wakens our souls.

1643 Pure Joy

1643 Golden Joy

As if this weren’t enough, I got to fly her wonderful Dad and my bro-in-law on a quick tour of San Francisco just before sunset.

8681 Golden Gate

8681 Golden Gate

As the world spreads beneath the wings, the heart stretches to embrace the True golden nature of time.

8693 Thru the Gate

8693 Thru the Gate

2011/12/23

3 Santas

Filed under: Aviation,by Anne,Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,People,Relationships,SB Region,Tripp — Anne @ 09:13

From the hills between Santa Barbara and Santa Inez, the day’s/year’s end sunset, reflected in trusty Tripp’s wing.

0701Sunset Wing

0701 Sunset Wing

GrandGirl turned one year just days ago and is about to experience her 1st Santa.

Grandpa drums her a tune…and is enchanted with their bright connection, reflected in her eyes.

1647 Luella &Gpa & Great Aunt Delora

1647 G'Daughter & G'pa with Great Aunt

~by Anne

2011/12/22

Happiness Is

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Inner World,People,Random,Relationships — John @ 10:00

Unlike my early life, happiness is all around now. Inside and out. Filling me up. Lots of things get me giggling, smiling, and laughing out loud. There are also many things that evoke in me the sort of happiness that simply glows in radiant beams of inner joy. Time with friends and family. Deep conversation, playful moments, and just Being with Anne. Flying of course, as when we flew past L.A. on a recent moderately smoggy and overcast day.

1455 L.A.

1455 L.A.

…and out the other window is the view of L.A. perhaps more familiar to most people.

8430 Hollywood

8430 Hollywood

I deeply enjoy time with children, and there’s a new special child in my life now of course. Her good nature and frequent squeals of delight just thrill my heart, and she often reminds me of another baby girl who is now her mother.

1678 Grandpa Is Happy

1678 Grandpa Is Happy

2011/12/21

Air Surfing

Filed under: Flying,Happiness,Has Photos,Nature,People,Random — John @ 08:22

Surfing the air offshore along SoCA beaches is popular with birds, hang gliders, and a few aviators like us. In sunset light, the sandstone bluffs are even more colorful as the mood of beachcombers shifts toward evening.

8322 Beach Bluff

8322 Beach Bluff

Nearby the neighbors seem to have pooled their resources, investing their individual resources in a surfside pool rather than share a collective one.

8232 Tide Pools

8232 Tide Pools

I wonder if some of them are low enough to be reached by waves, but maybe they all use sea water pumped up from offshore. Other neighbors have their own large grotto, at least for now.

8230 Hollow Lawn

8230 Hollow Lawn

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