to celebrate being a human scribble. 
to celebrate having too many feelings to fit inside the lines of my own skin and to know THAT is the masterpiece

We can grow anywhere.

The poet Khalil Gibran said “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.” I love the idea of trees as poetry. Look at this magnificent, sublime tree in the Great Dismal Swamp. I wonder what wisdom lies within it? (photo by John Henley)

This beauty by Raymond Carver:

Remember how much flack and derision Marianne Williamson received for speaking on this very issue?? I’ve seen multiple psychiatrists comment on this very problem now. Just feel like yall need to stop dismissing Marianne by default and start taking her seriously.

It would seem that creating our life is nearly impossible without coming to some kind of consciousness about these matters. Yet few if any of us really come willingly to that which is humbling. We are usually dragged there.~James Hollis

What I fail to recognize within me will sooner or later meet me in the outer world through whatever projections I have upon the outer.~James Hollis, Hauntings

I still have yet to come across anyone criticizing Cornel for his deeply religious views which he expresses in every interview I’ve seen. It goes to show that any criticism you hear about Marianne has to be examined through the lens of misogyny.

You fear you are not strong enough to do the hardest thing only because you don’t yet know that doing the hardest thing is exactly what will help you know your strength.

A mystery so profound that none of us really seems to grasp it until it has indisputably grasped us, is that some force transcendent to ordinary consciousness is at work within us to bring about our ego’s overthrow. ~James Hollis

Young Marianne preaching truth. "Women living at full throttle .... they will not be dominated and controlled. Stilll there is the demonization of the passionate women even in America today."

What I would do on Day One. #Marianne2024

So much of humanity's dysfunction can be explained by the fact that corporations (A) pretty much run the world and (B) are required to act like sociopaths by placing shareholder profits above all other concerns.

"What stands in the way becomes the way."

It's trippy how people pour such effort into disputing whether the planet is warming when the biosphere is showing us many, many other signs of looming collapse. They completely ignore the ocean dead zones, plummeting insect populations, loss of wildlife, trees, fertile soil etc.

Mentally I am here.

Raindrops ignite What bioluminescence looks like In the rain

bioluminescent waves roll in, like standing on the shores of a different planet

The philosopher Plotinus suggested that while the body favors a straight line, the soul hankers for the circle. This mythic, circular time, (which is really no kind of time at all) laughs at the straight line and the alarm clock.~Dr. Martin Shaw

I finally have an acoustic guitar on my truck so now my life is complete. 🥰 I thought I'd do The River and The Forest for you. 🌊🌲 #naturelover #trucklife #acousticmusic