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Sometimes I feel like I am constantly looking for excuses,
Reasons,
For why there is this gaping hole in me that never seems to be quite filled.
This constantly festering wound of pain,
That I was born with,
That I just want to put a label on.
I remember at such a young age believing that happiness was something that should be strived for but never truly reached, and if it was reached,
it would…
Atacama (2011)
this place <3 <3 <3
I hear these opportunities
Calling me
Screaming at me
to reach
to grab them.
they yell
“IT’S TIME”
and I reach
I claw, climbing
as their screams seem to become whispers,
their solid forms become ghosts and shadows.
And I fall back again.
Desolated
dirty
hollowed, and once again
weak.
And I sit in the darkness,
praying that I am a flower
that I am a flower and not a stone.
That I can grow and…
I heard to the call,
and so I headed
out
into the woods.
Listening to the sounds of what had fallen behind,
shadows
whispering their stories,
weaving memories of things to come.
And as I wandered,
listening to the sounds,
I began to hear less
as I understood more,
as the shadows
took away
my confusion.
Leaving me bear
with nothing but raw understanding and new fierce determination
to keep me warm.
There are so many benefits to meditating outside, and Elephant Journal agreed with me. I would super appreciate if you would check out the article I wrote, especially if you are interested in meditation. Check out the link below:
http://www.elephantjournal.com/2016/03/spring-is-coming-6-benefits-to-meditating-outside/
I had a conversation with the Goddess tonight.
I found her within my pain.
She spoke of strength,
Of knowing,
Of light.
She asked me why I’d stepped away from her,
why I was quiet
when I had things to speak.
She asked me why my light
was dimmed
when it had been so bright as a child.
“We used to dance and play,” She said.
“Why isn’t it so now?”
“They told me I had to change,” I said,
“That…
I have a confession: I’m terrified of flying, and I love it.
Every time I have to fly, I get this feeling like my world could end at any moment. I get anxiety, knowing that I am going to be at an unnatural height in the air and that my fate is going to be in someone else’s hands. I get stressed out knowing that I will be in a small, confined space with no way out for hours. However, these fears…
Peru 1991, Stuart Franklin.
…I saw before me a golden curtain and I climbed the stairs as if in a dream… by Geoff Dunn Via Flickr
View From In the Water
August 2015
Hornby Island, BC
“In the six months that have passed since the Guatemalan feature Ixcanul (Volcano) premiered at the Berlin Film International Festival, director Jayro Bustamante’s debut feature has gone on to become the most award-winning film in that country’s history, with important prizes from festivals like Guadalajara, Cartagena, Toulouse, and Berlin. Then, just before the film’s Guatemalan premiere in late August, they went ahead and kicked it up a notch: Ixcanul will be Guatemala’s first-ever submission for Academy Awards consideration. You heard right: first. ever.
Filmed almost entirely in the Kaqchikel dialect spoken in Guatemala’s coffee-growing highlands, Ixcanul dramatizes the story of María, a young Mayan woman who is promised to the coffee plantation foreman, despite her desire for a lowly coffee cutter named Pepe. Dreaming of absconding with Pepe to a romanticized vision of the United States, María eventually has the encounter with modernity she so yearned for, but not for the reasons she had hoped”
-Andrew S. Vargas for Remezcla
Sometimes simplicity speaks the loudest
This is my most favorite high contrast image shot by my hands.
wildhorses 1, 2, & 3 by Peter Rivera
The Perfect Moonset
You have the shore all to yourself. Everyone has left after sunset as most people are bound to do; unaware of what they are missing out on. The warm light from the sun still escaping from below the horizon as it has just set about an hour prior to this. Faintly visible to the naked eye, I see the moon blending in with the bright hue of the sky. What a surprise. I’ve been waiting for a shot like this for as long as I remember. A perfect moment for a time-lapse.
Photographed by: Paolo Nacpil
Don’t forget to look up! #MilkyWay over Canyonlands National Park in Utah by Emily Ogden 🌌
