Félix Vallotton. Atardecer en Adelys. 1924

youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj... freedom freedom freedom #freedom from #fascism

i'm here to plant flowers in your mind ru 🪷

I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine. 🖊️Anthony de Mello 🎨 #art Je Shen

"With no surroundings there can be no path, and with no path one cannot become free.” *Gary Snyder The Practice of the Wild 📷©️ Lars van de Goor #photography

#GoodMorning, Skylarks "stay together learn the flowers go light” *Gary Snyder 📷 Four years ago at Kitkitdizze. source- Wang Ping

"It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason." 🖊️Ray Bradbury 📖 The October Country

forgive yourself 📷©️Buddha statue (detail) by Christophe Brisbois. #photography

#InternationalDayOfPeace #ThichNhatHanh ##zen #peace

Let them not say: we did not see it. We saw. Let them not say: we did not hear it. We heard. Let them not say: they did not taste it. We ate, trembled. Let them not say: it was not spoken, We spoke, we witnessed with voices. Let them not say: they did nothing. We did not-enough. Jane Hirshfield

family's in for the weekend

Morning Focus I am programmed by my emotions, desires, aversions. My task today is to become aware of these in my thoughts and actions, and of where I need to change. [credit in ALT]

love is the first cry of a child in gaza the breath of george floyd that still echoes in every march the drum at standing rock the fire in chile the march in iran the resistance in sudan the uprising in every corner love is the promise that no empire lasts forever ©daliah.lina 🖊️ #poetry

To be a Bodhisattva, is like going into a field of thorns to help others get out. First we can't bear the pain from seeing others suffer. Then we have to bear the pain going into samsara. With compassion a field of thorns will be a pond of lotus. :excerpt: 🖊️ Thubten Kway #buddhism

📷©️Francien van Dam #photography #nature #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines

#GoodMorning, Skylarks 🦋 Dreamed a man and woman in different attitudes of meeting and parting so I could tell the time, the periods of the sun, and which face my heart showed, and which is displayed to a hidden fold. 🖊️ Li-Young Lee #poetry #RobertRedford and his #cat

I am thankful today for my Lovie: Penelope to this wanderer Love at first sight Teenage sweethearts Centre of the universe Sexy sixties Grow old along with me, my Love.

📷©️Jocelyn Anderson #photography Great Egrets give elegant and majestic looks with their side profile, but the front facing view with the googly eyes and long neck has its own charm. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines

"Sharing yourself in an unsympathetic world is not a path for the weak-hearted. As you step into being seen, you will come face-to-face with your fears of being judged, criticized, dismissed, and derided. 🪷 stay committed to yourself 🪷 Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

📷©️ sail_m8 #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines

#GoodMorning, Skylarks journeying towards peace 🎨 #art Pedro Ruiz

"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?" #RobertRedford 🕊️

👇 This is so important. As the climate-magnified wildfires grow in size and time, citizens will need a lot more healthcare for fire- and smoke-related injuries. And civil defense and relocation assistance.

Broadview, US: "Wearing a Mexican traditional garment, Rosa Gayton poses for a portrait while holding a sign saying: ‘No One is Illegal on Stolen Land’, outside an Ice facility..." [credit in ALT]

No. Today, I will remember that saying "No." is a complete sentence.

A great blue heron in a frozen river

Tower of Voices at the Flight 93 Memorial in Shanksville, PA 93 feet high, featuring a wind chime for each of the 40 individuals who died on Flight 93 when the hijacked plane crashed in the field. The sound of those wind chimes is breathtakingly beautiful. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines #Heroes

peace in the quiet 📸 Shaaz Jung #Photography #nature

📷 ©️ iyeya_kyoto #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.” 🖊️Gary Snyder 📕 Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow #Dharma Revolutionaries

#GoodMorning, #Bluesky Although the cricket's song has no words, still, it sounds like sorrow." ~ Izumi Shikibu ~ 🎨Zeshin Shibata #art #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLines

Ava isn't feeling well today MS is cruel

Be Kind "The people we slight don’t usually just let it roll off of them, they carry it around. Sometimes they hold onto it their entire lives. The things we say can change people and that changes the way they view things. That, in turn, changes the way they interact with the world." 🖊️John Pendall

The bombing of a church in Birmingham on September 15, 1963 killed four young African American girls—Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley. This act of terror shocked the nation and galvanized the Civil Rights Movement. #FreedomForAll

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The profound paradox in words and ideas. We can idolize words. Instead of them being idea-catchers, we become trapped in words instead. Then our worldview becomes an idée fixe. Chuang Tzu's fish trap image is a marvelous teaching on this. Wandering on the Way Victor H. Maire, tr.,1994, p.276

not every heart offers love The Dendrocide moroides - the stinging tree. 💚 A single brush of skin against its surface unleashes a torture as the fine hairs on the leaf act like needles, injecting burning venom, a fire that can last for months. 📷©️ Raw Earth #photography #nature

📷©️ Vu Thuy #photography luminosity of solitude

the potential for bliss exists even when destruction disrupts our peace 📷©️Luisa Berger #photography #nature

🎨 #art Mohssin Amghar "reflection" watercolor on paper

Good Sunday morning, fellow travelers. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus

Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Shilling). Will you join me? Over 5500 + Missing and Murdered Indigenous women and girls #MMIWG #cdnpoli

And so, however dark it is, however deep the angry feelings are, and however violent the explosions are, I can still sing "We Shall Overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [source in ALT]

Sunday Thought Today, I will practice reverence for life, self-sacrifice, non-violent resistance to evil [cc in ALT]

we are the wave 🌊 A wave has the right to live its life as a wave, and it must also learn to live its life like water, because it is not just a wave. She is also the water. And water lives without fear of the wave." 🖊️Thich Nhat Hanh There Is Neither Death Nor Fear #zen 🎨 #art ingrid_klerks

meditation can take place anywhere 📷©️Theron Humphrey #photography #nature

#GoodMorning, Skylarks first the soft season will come and an awakening the awareness will spread from and to within and without the tender the strong melded it's coming the soft season 🪷 ru 📷©️Awakening - Krzysiek #photography #nature

a conversation on #Neruda Jeff "what's this along the page edges of the book?" me "my blood"🩸 ......... How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. 🖊️ Neruda