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Refletive Day - Antonia Tyz Peeples

American , b. 1957 -

Charles Louis Signoret (French, 1867-1932)

“Our minds are just waves on the ocean of consciousness. As waves, they come and go. As ocean, they are infinite and eternal. Know yourself as the ocean of being, the womb of all existence.”

Ordinarily I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.

I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my ways of praying, as you no doubt have yours.

Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.

If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

One day, when you wake up, you will find you’ve become a forest.

You’ve grown roots and found strength in them that no one thought you had.

You have become stronger and full of life giving qualities.

You have learned to take all the negativity around you and turn it into oxygen for easy breathing.

A host of wild creatures live inside you and you call them stories.

A variety of beautiful birds nest inside your mind and you call them memories.

You have become an incredible self-sustaining thing of epic proportions.

And you should be so proud of yourself, of how far you have come from the seeds of who you used to be.

"Eagle Perched on a Pine Branch" (Matsu taka zu, 松鷹図), from a 19th century hanging scroll (kakemono) ; ink and colour on paper; 115.4 x 49.1 cm (45 7/16 x 19 5/16") in size, by Kanō Setsuzan of the Kanō school (狩野派) of Japanese painting.