We can't chose what dies. What ends and when is not really up to us. But we can choose to witness: to tenderly and with curious love let our awareness follow them to rest. We could all do with more frequent practice of saying "goodbye", a prayer.

When sun and rain happen simultaneously, I feel blessed by nature's innate and casual complexity. I feel relief.

SO VERY FULL of gratitude to be living in a house that is an intentional experimental lab for co-living. Every two weeks, we run a new experiment and then keep, discard, or iterate on it. Deeply earnest intention + lighthearted & playful action = magic

“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow processes of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as cut flowers in a vase.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness, 1930

“The problem with getting good at managing your life is that you end up with a life that has to be managed” truly a banger

Jessica Bree I've always loved this quote from James Hollis, it really deepened the way I engaged with life.

welcome to the present moment that until now was pure imagination ... it's good to see you. come here often?

I feel the same is true for writing. I often find myself trying so hard to write well that I constrict myself around the next word or sentence. When I give the page and my mind's throat the silence, patience, space, breath they need -- the next words simply fall out.

just heard someone refer to the womb as a "third space" and i can't stop thinking about it

obligation is the desire-killer

You want to see someone? Stop tunneling and rummaging. Step back. Breathe out. Let your eyes loosen focus on them. Let the edges of their being soften. Make room for a little more of them. Breathe in.

The happiest people I know are slowing down, not speeding up.

The only dating strategy worth your time is to be as weird as humanly possible and see who rocks with it

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