Falcon Words// April Votolato

🍐🌸🍒 #whatdoyoulove #lovewhatyoudo

Curl Up With Your Rawness And Come Home. #dantoinettefoy An intention and some cheetah socks to bring in the weekend and prep me for my Kriya Yoga Ceremony tomorrow. #meditationstudent #findthelight #newchapter #allheart (at East West Bookshop)

Man shoes & dandelions = Two of my favorite things- 🌼👞#itsthelittlethings #earthlypleasures (at Spring, Texas)

When your friends art makes you cry 😭 #robynmattis #allheart #stclare

There are these moments, these pieces of time that can take hold of us. Still us into our bones. It is in these times if you are able to slow down long enough to witness them, you realize you are no longer who you once were, just seconds before. In the picture above my mother was alive and holding me on her lap. On the day that she died, age 12, I distinctly remember sitting on a chair outside of her hospital room knowing I was no longer somebody’s daughter but now nobody’s orphan. A word that had seemed so foreign to me just one day before. Life doesn’t always end up the way we think it should but there is a way we might be able to meet it head on with some sort of peace. Had I been overwhelmed with all the noises and sense pleasures that often overtake us, I might have not been able to become aware of my new role. It would have been even more painful (although that seems impossible) trying to stumble through life for years as a motherless daughter. That day I left the hospital an orphan. Not an easy role to fill but at least an honest representation of what I was. For some reason beyond my grasp still, I was gifted in her transition away from earth with the life changing moment of complete stillness and awareness of what was to come. I’m starting to realize now with age that this gift of stillness/awareness of what is to come is far more common then I once thought… It might make us vulnerable, or even sometime leave us with the realization that nothing is as it seems but I believe it to be evolution at her finest. A moment not stuck in the past or future. A moment that if acknowledged and given the space to exist will make our fun indulging times that much more extraordinary. #notsilentyet

It's a fact🔶👆🏻♥️ (at Velouria Boutique & Gallery)

The day captured in this photo feels like another lifetime. The space in time before I understood death and my eyes turned green as a cat. There was something so magical about always being surrounded by my siblings, always being able to play in the forest behind my house. How I loved caring for my baby brother even when he was most upset . I remember my mom pointing out how calm I always stayed when caring for crying kids. NowAdayZ the world feels a little more hectic, unstable really, with the way the planet and its caretakers are being neglected. I hear the voices of so many being mocked and drowned. Denied the right to protect what should be most loved🌏. I feel like the planet is crying loudly, creating chaos in the home. I'm so grateful to see a collective, peaceful march for science today. It's harder to stay centered in the mists of an unstable future for our children and future generations. Still I believe that staying calm (with a purpose and action) is a powerful and valid emotion. Although it can come across as less emotional, it's a form of compassion, an act of strong will, not always easy yet undeniably powerful. It takes being grounded to something bigger than individual goals to change the world. Our planet needs us now more then ever. Like an old growth tree is deeply rooted into the earth so must we be. This is the peace that can draw us closer to the heart of the ocean instead of always being at the tip of the wave. In the heart of wherever we go that is where we can center. Heart of the earth, the ocean, in the hearts of ourselves, that is where pure love exists. That pure love has before changed our world and once again can do the same. When feeling distress pull from your center of true calmness. Feel the silence in Mother Nature guide you to help yourself and others❤️To all the marchers today, to all my siblings and our children, to all who see a bright future on the horizon, my heart is with you. #savetheplanet #saveyourself #heartoftheocean #earthdayeveryday 🌲#80sparty #family #calmandcollected

"Only be afraid of aging if a youthful glow is all you have to offer this world" -Ann C Gilbert. The wise words of my grandma. On the eve of my 41st I can clearly hear her voice.... more importantly comes the understanding of what true beauty is. I see it in these flowers and in all things self-realized. To know your true purpose here is powerful. It might not always be easy or pretty but once you realize and love what you have to offer you will always illuminate beauty 🦄🦄🦄

A rare treat from Germany 🦄🍫🔮 #rittersport #unicornchocolate

https://thecollection.bandcamp.com❤🙌🏻 CANNOT WAIT for this rad band of humans to play tonight. You might not think it, but I believe good music is rare these days. The energy and ideas The Collection bring to the table are raw and in search of something better then what's been handed down! I'll be there ✌🏼come join me. (at Fremont Abbey Arts Center)

At some point we find ourselves falling into the perfect place. Mine will be, at the point of light- #mywordshavepower #poetryisnotdead #allheart

Bringing some #brucelee energy into this week! 👊🏻✔️ #weekendwarriors #waitingforasign #poetry #bloodsweattears

In love with my wolf Chai🖤 thank you @angelamuir for a gift that keeps on giving! #loveyou #favoriteanimal #wolfhaveninternational #bestfriends

☁️9 with @saintlyvotolato #frenchiesofinstagram

Favorite place to write- #missingmuir #joebar #poetryandcoffee (at Joe Bar Cafe)