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That’s where the magic lies.  Quote author unknown but given to me by the fabulous Rose Ramsay 

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Beautiful photographs, universal text - this is a very lovely read

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“Someone left the gate open..”

Into the Wild

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“More than anything we want to exist in pure, flowy freedom.  We don’t actually want to build dams.  We need to get out of the way.  We need to let go.  We need to take our filthy mitts off life...for ourselves and for others.  Besides we don’t want to feel we have to do it all on our own.  I want to know that life “has this one”.  That I’m held and can chill out on top deck for a bit with a drink with an umbrella in it..”  Sarah Wilson from “First we make the beast beautiful”

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Sublime music, this is so beautiful

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Capturing sunlight

Photo Credit: Autumn Rain

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Peace every morning under my oak tree

Video credit Sussi Louise Smith

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Nurture the Mood of Dawn

“Considering a day’s activities, first get up early, wash and groom yourself, dress properly, including accessories, and sit quietly with your hands folded, making your appearance and manner correct. Nurture the mood of dawn, and contemplate the principle of heaven and earth ceaselessly producing life… Above all, you should observe subtle impulses. When a man of mettle is at home, if he is circumspect even in solitude, then he will have a calm conscience. He does not neglect manners - whether in public, or out of sight. Here his mind is broad, here his body is robust, here his attention is focused; his will has a definite direction, and no ideas of license or indulgence occur to him.”

- From Shidō (The Way of the Knight), Yamaga Soko  

via Lucian James Fearless Strategies No 3

Photo Credit: friend of my friend Sussi Louise Smith

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“And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree..”

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The Universe in Verse 2020 trailer: "Antidotes to Fear of Death" from Maria Popova on Vimeo.

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ANTIDOTES TO FEAR OF DEATH by Rebecca Elson

Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars.

Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Til they are all, all inside me, Pepper hot and sharp.

Sometimes, instead, I stir myself Into a universe still young, Still warm as blood:

No outer space, just space, The light of all the not yet stars Drifting like a bright mist, And all of us, and everything Already there But unconstrained by form.

And sometime it’s enough To lie down here on earth Beside our long ancestral bones:

To walk across the cobble fields Of our discarded skulls, Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis, Thinking: whatever left these husks Flew off on bright wings.

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From “This is the story of a happy marriage” by Anne Patchett

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Luminous

Credit DVDP

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From “Hourglass” by Dani Shapiro - on time, memory, marriage and what makes us who we are.  

These Corona times

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Hyacinth flowers on my table this morning.  Greyness and stillness outside.

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Many of us spend too long not being ourselves.  

That’s adoption for you. 

In a nutshell.

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The tiger who came to tea