❤️ my heart

📷©️Penas Colaço #photography #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadow

"We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger. If people think that my danger makes them safe, we are in trouble.” ― James Baldwin #resist #trump forcing hunger across humanity

#Photography Hoang Quoc Tuan from Vietnam won the 2010 PSA Bronze Medal for this photo titled 'Brighting Way' #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadow

Coda a woman walked away from the winter village, became sand, became ocean, became sky. 🖊️ Patricia Fargnoli 📕 THEN, SOMETHING has won the Sheila Motton Book Award from the New England Poetry Club, the Silver Award for 2010 Poetry Book of the Year from ForeWord Magazine

i fill the large tin pail add lavender and sage soak my loneliness dredging sopping i work it until tears return as words - i can finally hear heartache churning to acceptance ru

By month's end we will be traveling to the high country of North Carolina for rest and viewing of the gingerbread houses much to Ava's delight. We may even encounter ❄️

"Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects. Please do not think we must be solemn in order to meditate. In fact, to meditate well, we have to smile a lot." #ThichNhatHanh #zen 📷samsonthedood #photography

🌎 “I wonder how long it will take the planet to tell us we can’t live here and the locks are changed.” 🖊️Rudy Francisco 📕 Helium

#GoodMorning, Skylarks when you are struggling in your writing (art). it usually means you are hearing one thing. but writing (creating) another. - honest 🖊️ Nayyirah Waheed 📕 salt. 🎨#art Archan Nair

the truth is you were born for you. you were wanted by you. you came for you. you are here for you. your existence is yours. 🖊️Nayyirah Waheed 📕 Nejma 🎨 #art Monika Edgar

The Rider 🖊️Naomi Shihab Nye A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! 🪡

It is wise to pay attention to the coincidences, the synchronicities, and the deja vu experiences in your life. These are not random events. They are where our spiritual plan, set up before we are born, and the actual path we are traveling in this lifetime converge. 🖊️ Dr. Brian Weiss #caturday

America is waiting for a message of some sort or another… Brian Eno + David Byrne, America Is Waiting (1981) youtu.be/fMTi73h5B_U

youtube.com/watch?v=qABX... 🎶 "Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Humaneness and justice are the means by which to govern properly. When government is carried out properly, people feel close to the leadership and think little of making sacrifices for it.” ~ Du Mu (803-852) #Painting by Laurie Steen.

#kwanumzen #zen

little bird little darling resilient tender i wish i were more like you ru

'Dark Red Leaf Meditation Mandala 🎨 Miya Ando #artist Dyed skeleton Bodhi leaves, monofilament, 21 x 21 inches in size. Image courtesy of Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York #art

🫟 Don’t break a writer’s heart and think ink won’t spill.” 🖊️Ming D. Liu 🎨 Romana Jelínková #art

...the pale gold light of a November sky 🖊️Albert Camus 📷🎨 Mary Moore Cedar Lane Studios #art #photography

Be humble; you are made of dust Be noble; you are made of stars. Stars are also made of dust, and dust is made of ancient stars. There is the nature of interbeing. So nobility and humility also have the nature of interbeing. Looking at the one, you can recognize the other." #ThichNhatHanh #zen

oh - he was most certainly on the ballot ..."upon being hit in the head and crying pumpkin seeds"...ray villafane...american master pumpkin carver #sculptor world renowned for his whimsical 3d style pumpkin sculptures...villafane studios....wickenburg..arizona... #art #photography

#GoodMorning, Skylarks cinny has decided to pack glitter as she goes about her day her words - "you never know when the Good Witch has to throw up on a flying monkey" ( 🧊 ) #resist fascism

In any moment you can become the loving witness of the Dharma manifesting *･゜ღ *･゜ ૐ.✫*¨*. for BAE forever planting flowers in our sadness ☼ૐ.✫ ૐ 📷 ©️ chorori_n #photography #zen #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadow

Violence has become the substance of our society. We must transform our shared suffering through compassion and deep understanding. We have to look at the roots of the problem and not just on the surface. We accept violence as a way of life and dealing with problems. 🪡 #ThichNhatHanh

When Gandhi said that love is the force that can liberate, he meant we have to love our enemy. Even if our enemy is cruel, sowing terror and injustice. This is the message of Jesus. But how? We have to understand how he has come to be like that. #ThichNhatHanh 📕 Living Buddha, Living Christ

"In Vietnam, we staged nonviolent action and brought down a government- -not with guns or bullets. We must rely on ourselves and organize ourselves so that we can perform the peace work of transformation and healing within our family, group, and community." - #ThichNhatHanh #zen #Peace Begins Here

The Journey 📷©️Peter Lik is a Czech-Australian landscape #photographer known for his panoramic and high-contrast images. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForShadows #photography

you knew he is a 🦂 scorpion

Buddha did not teach us to get rid of suffering. He taught us to know suffering. Once we know suffering as it is, see truth as it is, we see this body is itself suffering and the mind is itself suffering. When you see suffering clearly, the mind will unwind its attachment. #buddhism A. Pramote

the lone dove still cries in the early dark of days i press myself to the window i offer consolation the dove had flown tree to tree as Eric buried his mate under the star magnolia calling calling ru

#GoodMorning, Skylarks be a comfort be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder

i rise each morning to a sleeping home the cat the only one aware as i pad down the stairs to Ava's suite i cozy into the chair beside her bed the rhythm of her soft sleeping breath i sit here now anticipating her awakening i know no other way to love her ❤️ ru

the worst thing that ever happened to the world was the white man coming across gun powder. –– the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy” 🖊️Nayyirah Waheed 📕 Salt.

#GoodMorning, Skylarks "They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end." 🖊️Robert McCammon

"Become so free that your very existence is an act of rebellion" 🖊️ Albert Camus 📷 No Kings protest #resist fascism

She lives in the bliss of awakening, She drinks the juice of her own self-nature. The dead are unhappy, the living are unhappy, The hungry are unhappy, the well-fed are unhappy. Sahajo says: The sage alone is blissful, She has found the eternal joy. - - Sahajo - - 🎨 #art Stephanie Noblet

#GoodMorning, Skylarks 'For generosity, nothing to do, Other than stop fixating on self. For meditative stability, nothing to do, Other than rest in presence. For wisdom, nothing to do, Other than know directly how things are.' Milarepa 🎨 Marpova Skola #art source- our precious Marketa Morris

All Souls 🕯️ I pray for all souls, both known and unknown to me touched by death. I offer my prayers, my small works of mercy in the hope that it brings them to eternal peace. May the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. 🎨 'Ecstatic Metamorphosis' Tino Rodriguez & Virgo Paraiso #art

"In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you." 🖊️Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries ❤️ @artandpoetry.bsky.social

“It was always November there.” 🖊️John Ashbery ©️ Clover Cloud digital artist

🕊️ p e a c e ☮️ peace peace peace say it breathe it pray meditate scream ✌️ peace peace p e a c e

The same universe that crafted koalas and quasars and crocus petals authored the mind reading these words. Don't let intimate knowledge of your own life rob you of the dignity and wonder you are owed.

"In Zen, there is a koan, a question for contemplation: "Does the dog have buddha-nature?" Not only does the dog have buddha-nature, so does the stone-and the planet." #ThichNhatHanh #zen #buddhism 📷Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi, China. #AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRock

#GoodMorning, Skylarks #caturday

"Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us. St. Michael, pray for us. St. Joseph, pray for us. St. Peter and St. Paul, pray for us..." — Prayer Excerpt from the Litany of the Saints