anonyrrie

peace

 

what I found this morning

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. 

You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. 

There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. 

It's got to happen inside first. - Jim Morrison
 

 

in the rain

 

today...

I sat on a bench and watched the clouds dance.

 

calm

 

it's time...

... to come out of your shell.

fly off, little one!

 

 

Once my teacher set me on a high stool
for laughing. She thought the eyes
of my classmates would whittle me to size.
But they said otherwise.

We'd laugh too if we knew how.

I pinned my gaze out the window
on a ripe line of sky.

That's where I was going.

-from "Fuel" by  Naomi Shihab Nye

 

here you are (metaphors, second person)

 

Boxed in, tired of  spending your days putting people into boxes so they can go out into the world and fit into more boxes...

 

 Imagining what it would be like to just break the rules...

 ... and unravel this web that's woven with the dull, thick, coarse threads of duty and obligation...  to weave a new web with delicate fibers that let the light shine through, a web created with calling and passion... 

 

"The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time." — Mary Oliver

 

But you already know that, don't you...

It takes just a moment to focus on what's beautiful.  In that one still pause, everything that spins finds its center.