“Thoughts fuel emotions. If you don’t like what you’re feeling, step back and examine what you’re thinking. Pain is inevitable, but you’ll suffer a lot less if you disengage from your thoughts.” ~Lori Deschene
The warm droplets from the shower …
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“Potentially, every tree is immortal.”
“Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be.” ~Unknown
You two are family. Maybe you grew up with them and were by their side for a huge chunk of their life. There …
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“Here man has invented the heavens but the moon, not to be usurped, shines sickle bright, gathering our souls.”
“Anyone who says that the artist’s sphere leaves no room for questions, but deals exclusively with answers, has never done any writing or done anything with imagery.”
“A life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
“You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to me being vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose.”
A painted landscape of fact and feeling along the flow of existence.
The gasp beyond fact, contouring the central question of what it is like to be you.
“We are a music-making species — always have been, always will be — and music’s capacity to explore, express and address what it is to be human remains one of our greatest communal gifts.”
