fly

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

~ Toni Morrison

be crumbled

Queen Anne’s Lace in the mountains.

Very little grows on jagged rock.
Be ground. Be crumbled,
so wildflowers will come up
where you are.

You have been stony for too many years.
Try something different. Surrender.

~ Rumi

Soft eyes

Sunrise through the raindrops resting on the window.

To perceive the world through others senses is to find splendor in familiarity, wilderness in one’s backyard, the sacred in the mundane.

~ Ed Yong

Paddling in.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

~ Denise Levertov

From joy to joy

Before the season ends.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

—Li-Young Lee

Stories

Grasses at sunrise.

There’s always a story. It’s all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything’s got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

~ Terry Pratchett

Love Moves Away

Pale sunlight,
pale the wall.

Love moves away.
The light changes.

I need more grace
than I thought.

~ Rumi

being vulnerable

relaxing in the garden

Being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure.

~ Bob Marley

slowing down

Morning paddle.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

stillness

morning by the pond

My heart is tuned to the quietness
that the stillness of nature inspires.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan