Every moment offers an opportunity to recognize the nature of your mind. #moment #flower #mindful

The real truth, that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control. Absolutely no one. ~ Terence McKenna #Wisequotes #OceanWaves

Roots #wood

Chicago Skyline’21 #Chicago

Pelican, Xcart Mexico. #bird #xcart

Let every day, be Valentine's Day. #love #ValentineDay

When you have accepted your own death in the midst of life, it means that you've let go of yourself, and you are therefore free. ~ Alan Watts #quietcrossing #softdepartures #freedom

After a month on Bluesky, I have unlocked the ancient art of "tapping the post". 😁 #Mexico #blueskyhowto

morning glory climbs atop the brittle branches purple savors frost #DailyHaikuPrompt #morning_glory #haikuchallenge #savor #haiku #nature #photography

Just another sunset…

If you can learn from your mistakes, then you have already transformed garbage into flowers. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh #ThichNhatHanhWisdom #BloomFromWithin #MindfulLiving

We are both the feather and the stone, gentle and enduring, delicate and resilient. The balance we create, the way we hold each other in place while still giving each other room to rise. #ValentinesDay #LoveInBalance

#Poetry #Spirituality #Nature

See how letting go of the world is peaceful. There's nothing you need to hold on to. There's nothing you need to push away. ~ Buddha

“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.” ~ Rumi Shipwright’s Regatta 2025, Port Townsend WA

"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest." ~ Hermann Hesse #ZenAndTheArtOfSnacking #SquirrelLogic #BirdFeederBandit *Common Furbird.

Secrets... I spied a friend's daughter carrying on a conversation with my cat Mysty, who was listening intently. #Cats #innocence #imagination #CatConversations #KidsAndCats #TinyMoments #EverydayMagic

No matter how far you have gone down a wrong road, turn back. ~ Turkish proverb

Murmuration for you

v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

The moon resting on a cloud. #Moon #NightSky #Clouds #FullMoon #SkyPhotography

I am the one shaping my inner weather. No one else is directing the currents of my mind. When I notice the thoughts or energies that pull me out of harmony, I can release them and return to my own center. #QuietKnowing #LivingInPresence #SoulAwakening

held close to the hidden frame at the mercy of what has been & what insists now her #bones set firm as she walks straight into the stubborn genesis where the ordinary tilts & reveals a second depth her pilgrim’s eyes carrying a cargo of the full moon #vss365 #poetry #blueskypoets 🖼️ ReinaChen

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ~ Kahlil Gibran #Wisdom #Reflection #KahlilGibran

Some dreams don’t arrive gently. They come with a weight that lingers long after waking, as if something unseen brushed too close. I keep wondering whether these troubled visions are warnings, echoes, or simply the mind speaking in a darker tongue. #Oneness #Consciousness

What be these visions in the night? Why do they seem to speak to us alone ? #questions

Bobcat

When we remember our kinship with the natural world, we remember our own wholeness. ~ Llyn “Cedar” Roberts

Poppies #art

New Orleans, LA

Deception Pass #Bridge in Washington State on a foggy morning. It connects Whidbey Island to Fidalgo Island. #SensoryArt #bridges #Photography #OMSystem #EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #ColorADay #BWFri #Reflection

To be alive is to be present in the unfolding of life. ~ James Low

You have to be like a mountain, solid and immovable, but also like water, flexible and gentle. ~ thich nhat hanh Mount Baker, WA

valleys never made for the measured steps of man flowers out of line a lambent landscape slowly overrun by feral pines #vss365 #lambent #tankaThursday #landscape #TankaPoem #blueskypoets 📸Pinterest

I doubt he will see me behind this tree…

Garden Orb‑Weaver. This visitor lived on a window all last fall.

Before words were born Songs already existed… #TinyMessenger #photography #SongsOfTheEarth #BirdLovers

Wet sunset

My Songbird 17/16/8 Hammered Dulcimer.

he couldn’t be found only the blind breach remained within the fragile horde of stars carrying the entire history set in a molecular recess of the body his #pain endured among the ruins where something still listens and answers if one knows how to ask #FromOneLine #vss365 #blueskypoets 🖼️ Pinterest

Women’s blouse part (mola panel) Guna (Panama, Central America)

Think positively about somebody else's well-being, and you'll find you're gladdening your own mind. Laurie Santos

Pause for a moment and notice what’s moving inside you. If something has been tugging at your attention, let this be a gentle return to simple awareness. No fixing, no pushing, just allowing everything to rest exactly as it is.

a realistic pencil drawing of the back of a cat, focusing on the texture and flow of its fur.

Pardon me...did someone say Spring?

Looking North from Virginia City, Nevada

Heart-shaped knot at Fort Townsend State Park by Linda Burdick