The process

 

Courage

 

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." ~ Carl Jung

 

Feet

 

“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” ~ T.S. Eliot

Beauty

 

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. ~Oscar Wilde

The problem with a lie is it deprives you of your right to the truth.

“A man is rich in direct proportion to the number of things that he can live without.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

When the character of a person is not clear to you, look at their friends.

I’m not much on seizing the day. I just kinda poke at it with a stick.

Go to the dragon and kiss it.

 

Imagine wasting your life worrying about who has the right to marry who. Of all the things to stand for. Regulating love? How fucking miserable.

Don’t be distracted by criticism. The only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.

"Americans have the remarkable ability to look reality right in the eye and deny it." ~ Garrison Keillor

"A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree of certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world is suffering." ~ Bertrand Russell

"You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books." ~ Susan Sontag

Poetry and walking

 

Trust the timing of your life. Keep focusing on putting one foot in front of the other, be kind, and follow your heart. Doors will open effortlessly, but first you have to be ready to walk through.

 

Kierkegaard said life is a leap of faith that requires embracing uncertainty and taking bold steps grounded in belief and authenticity.

 

“I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of the world.” ~ Mary Oliver

“Acts of kindness, I believe, are our way of letting the world know we’re delighted to be a part of it; we’re grateful; we’re sensitive. There was once a sign in a hospital reading ‘A baby’s birth is one way of letting us know the world should go on,’ or something like that. And I think that each of us~through our unique acts of kindness~can express that we think the world should go on~nicer and smoother. Kindness is an art form.” ~ Alec Guinness

"All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret." ~ Gabriel García Márquez

Every step

 

The burden

 

Striving

 

Support

 

“I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity, but to mature and transfigure us. ~Herman Hesse

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. And the first to forget is the happiest.

Self-awareness is the first step to freedom The beginning of wisdom: acknowledging our own faults Recognize, reflect, rise....

An intuitive woman’s ability to read the room is exactly why you’ll find her at home or in nature most of the time. It’s just different when energy is your first language.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I bow my head as I pay homage to every moment that has led me here.

“People are afraid to be pried loose from their ignorance,” poet Maya Angelou said way back in 1983. “Because they know their ignorance so well, they know it better than their body odors. And if you say ‘Come on, give up your ignorance!’ they get into that terrible position, terrifying position, which Shakespeare talks about at the end of the Hamlet soliloquy. They’d rather bear the ills they have than fly to others that they know not of. ‘Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all.’”

The only trick of friendship is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.

Easy breezy stepping today

 

Stay whimsical

 

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great!

 

Walk

 

Multi directional

 

What some would call abuse . . . was, in fact, just a bruised ego.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

 

I'm jealous of people who know how to shut the fuck up. I shut up and closed captioning comes out on my forehead!

Stop talking and start walking

 

Possible logo

 

No struggle, no progress

 

I feel like a cat

 

Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

 

Safety

 

Kindness

 

Patience

 

Not perfect

 

Keep it.

 

Stay

 

All day long

 

“Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

“…Maybe it’s about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.” ~ Mary Oliver, Upstream

 

Authenticity 2025

 

Outcomes

 

Betrayal

 

Love the world

 

Comments?

 

Flaws

 

Sense and Sensibility

 

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. ~ André Gide

I trust my ancestors will forgive me for sitting at tables they would have flipped.

Reflection is not an art all take part in.

Stitched together

 

You can fill a library with everything you have read, decorate your desk with diplomas, and speak with elegant words that few understand. But if you have not learned to doubt your certainties, if you have not looked beyond your own ideas, you are still walking in the dark with a broken headlight. Intelligence is not a suit you can wear for every conversation, nor a collection of titles that grant you reason by decree. Some know the stars by name but have never felt the vertigo of truly looking at them. Others have read about the seas but have never felt the waves touch their feet. Knowing is not enough. The world is full of brilliant minds with hearts of stone and cultured voices that cannot truly hear. For knowledge without conscience is just noise, and education without humility is nothing but a disguise.

Self reflection

 

Courage

 

Be mindful

 

Dive towards doubt

 

Revolting

 

Evolve

 

Queen

 

Patience

 

Plants and animals don’t fight the winter; they don’t pretend it’s not happening and attempt to carry on living the same lives that they lived in the summer. They prepare. They adapt. They perform extraordinary acts of metamorphosis to get them through. Winter is a time of withdrawing from the world, maximising scant resources, carrying out acts of brutal efficiency and vanishing from sight; but that’s where the transformation occurs. Winter is not the death of the life cycle, but its crucible. Once we stop wishing it were summer, winter can be a glorious season in which the world takes on a sparse beauty and even the pavements sparkle. It’s a time for reflection and recuperation, for slow replenishment, for putting your house in order. Doing those deeply unfashionable things; slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting ... Katherine May

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.” ― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

 

More on anger

 

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