Finding textures, flowers and ribbons everywhere. When I am quiet enough, I notice the countless ways nature shares her diversity. Drew's Musing #223 #photography #diversity #nature #beauty

water and stone wood docks and rust cohesion yet each, a world in and of themselves time and life just as they are pure and perfect cleanse and decay death and renewal residing with bare feet on a sacred journey while paint and pen drip creatively in the margin #photography #poetry #nature

Early blooms amid a peaceful morning. Carrying these images in my heart throughout the day lifted me somehow. Beauty is like that. ✨️ #photography #spring #beauty #nature

An insistant baby gull I found both beautiful and amusing. #photography #seagulls

A circular band of goodwill. A wreath. Symbol of the ongoing road leading back to oneself. A reflection. A mirror. Kindness will touch the untouchable when you are not looking. Bring laughter to a room full of grief. And spark a light in the darkest heart. #photography #kindness

the promise a rainbow brings and mother's light after storms passing #photography #rainbow #nature #promise

"Practice Radical Empathy" #photography #boats #Marina

Against the winds of the mountain: But my cries, grown thin in all this space, Are diluted with emptiness ...... Like the air, Thin and wide, Touching everything, Touching nothing. ~ Evelyn Scott #photography #poetry

On this Indigenous Peoples Day, I wish all beings the stillness of heart that is our birthright, despite the stormy seas of the hour. May all people know peace. May all be fed and housed. May we think of being thankful not just as a day, but as each moment we get to be alive. #photography #prayer

Am I the morning fog or the water on which it dances. Am I at all, or is all that is- me. I come to believe life as a funny little magic show gracefully given, so that we may fully understand all there is to creation. #poetry #photography

... on "inner vision" #prose #art #poetry open.substack.com/pub/drewzmuz...

Sending prayers for #Jamaica and #Cuba in the wake of Hurricane #Melissa 🕯🙏🏽✨️

"We have built this society. Our parents and the parents before them have produced this structure, which is corrupt, and we are the product. You are the society, & the world, and if we don’t change ourselves radically, very deeply, there is no possibility of changing the social order." ~Krishnamurti

The real "Emerald City", "Go" lights, Jade, Veggies and other various green vibes to think about. 💚🍏🥬🌲 #prose #poetry #art drewzmuze.substack.com/p/a-deep-sta...

the soothing caress of nature, and the spaces between ✨️

Kale and Pomegranate Salad: 2 bunches kale, any variety Seeds from 1 pomegranate 1 medium or large avocado, peeled, pitted, and diced Pumpkin Seeds Dressing: Juice of 1 lemon Olive Oil A few tablespoons Orange juice *zest to taste Salt Fresh Pepper Dash of soy sauce Honey #recipe

Handsome fellow!

Thank you #Autumn for your beautiful welcome. #equinox 🍂

Stop and take a moment for yourself, and for your life. open.substack.com/pub/drewzmuz... #art #prose #substack

When the wild turkey's think the kale and chard you planted make the perfect bed. 😊

A poem and a ponder... link is in bio above. #artwork #poetry

Sending prayers to the universe as I raise my morning cup of coffee, to the true meaning of prosperity. May all beings know ☮️✨️ #webdubois

When I was growing up in Brooklyn this poster hung on the wall in my family's kitchen. I have never forgotten it. It evokes compassion even fifty years later. ♡ In some ways, life is moving forward at break neck speed, to quick to even comprehend or settle into, in others.. not so much. 1/2

Today, August 9th, is BLACKOUT DAY here in Amerikkka. Emergency purchases only. "The revolution will not be televised". ~Gil Scott-Heron 🙏🏽✨️ substack.com/@democraticw...

For someone growing up in the 70's in New York City, this for many years, was the soundtrack for a beautiful drive. Chuck Mangione "Feels So Good" Thanks for the music and the positive vibes. 🙏🏽🎺🕊 youtu.be/V7dg8vRDM68?...

"Remembrance" a #poem on ancestral truth open.substack.com/pub/drewzmuz...

A Great Grey Egret next to a statue of: a Great Grey Egret

Right now, Mother Earth is rotating at 1000mph on a slight axis, about 23 degrees, which is what gives us the seasons. All of life is constantly moving as it will, and through grace, maybe we play a small part by adding a bit more love to it... - 1/2 #solstice

some days it may be better to taste the world, than be right. to lick every hope and dream till your tongue remembers what cool water from a concrete fountain on an overhot day feels like through your teeth. ♡ open.substack.com/pub/drewzmuz... #poetry

Don't you hate it when you buy a new kind of coffee... dont like it, but now you have a whole pound of it and feel like you have to drink it anyway?

Yours truly is featured on the Royal Literary Fund substack today, sharing about his writing life. I do share a few secrets. Please share! Visibility is vital to do this work supporting authors via RLF & WritersMoasaic #books #writingcommunity royalliteraryfund.substack.com/p/my-writing...

"We are house-sitting for God. We share royal duties: Each day I water a favorite potted plant of the Divine's, Earth." ~ Hafiz 🌏🌐✨️ #earthday #Hafiz #poetry

spring flowers for my mother gone young and long ago her fingers are my fingers heart fierce tripping forward as only every human ever learns is the one true way to live @drewzmuze.bsky.social #poetry #mother's 💙

Today I am a dandelion. Flower enough to know I am a flower but not so special. My roots are deep and resilient and add a soft sparkle to my being. #poetry

The library is the fountain of knowledge. From a fountain of knowledge flows critical thinking. From critical thinking flows democracy. From democracy flows our livelihoods. We know what flows from defunding libraries. Let us defend our libraries like our liberation depends on it. Because it does.

"Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

As we ‘spring ahead,’ the question I am contemplating this morning and today is: Who can we bring with us on the journey and what will we let go of as we move ahead? What can we save on our own and how can we work with community to preserve what truly matters? 🙏🏽😌 #Spiritchat

Having a #Marley Moment. #onelove 🙏🏽✊🏽💪🏽✨️ "You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice." ~ Bob Marley

Loved this little book of timeless truth. ✨️

Ways YOU can help us get the word out! #abolishtheoligarchy #shutdown315 #eattherich #weareunited #classconsciousness #jointherevolution #revolution

Your ignorance is their power.

Don't let anyone tell you how to be. Remain weird and wonderful. 🙏🏽😊

Sometimes, you just need to remember the divine is in all things... the water, the wind, the rain, the mountains... and in us. May our divine nature shine forth and burn away the darkness. May divine light soothe the broken and heal the world. And so it is.... and so it shall be. Amen 🙏🏽✨️

30 years ago #carlsagan wrote… #books #history #now

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny… ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. #destiny #commonality #MLKJr #MLKDay #sunrise #photography

We should all do this with our hearts. 💕✨️

Pink mornings... ⚓️

a neighbor stopping by.. ✨️