awareness > opportunity

Awareness is of more value than opportunity
Once you get to this understanding
Awareness is opportunity

quiet

be silent long enough for the right words to come
it's hard to do this

Monday Ride

return to icarus

A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses,
Head high in the forehead and wide between the ears,
Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
Eyes well apart and full of sparkling wickedness…

His nostrils dilate…my heels embrace him…his well built limbs tremble with pleasure…we speed around and return.

Swift wind! Space! My soul! Now I know it is true what I guessed at;
What I guessed when I loafed on the grass,
What I guessed while I lay alone in my bed…and again as I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning.

My ties and ballasts leave me…I travel…I sail…I skirt the sierras… my palms over continents,

I am afoot with my vision


~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

spring's second

burst foward

into all of the long grass, sunshine, birds chirping
  cool breezes
    that take the edge off sunshine
      to leave light

you earned it a long time ago

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..all of this is up to something..

of

"I am watching this” vs. “I am part of this”
"of" is easy
"of" is tough

mlk

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
~Martin Luther King Jr