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— Buddy Wakefield, from “In Landscape”

Brad Phillips

Thich Nhat Hanh

please don’t delete the caption, as it credits the original photographer. thank you

Raviv Ullman by Kaitlyn Mikayla

I’m convinced we’ve adopted a stuffed animal. via https://ift.tt/2FSt62x putyouinabettermood.com

Wildflowers in bloom. Mount Rainier National Park.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ~ Albert Einstein

Dance, Dance For the rolling of the thunder In our beating heart Lives within the mother drum Remember, Remember The stories of the time keepers The songs, the prayers of the ancient ones We are born of Water Elemental magick spinning Webs of fire light twirling with passion Weaving without us Weaving within us We are made of Dust and Light and Love The Echos of the Goddess forms like a medicine wheel in the mind And time is cyclical Get ready to heal your ancestral lineage Gather round the sacred fire Burn it all away, what no longer serves the community Hands up! Turning in each direction BE HERE WITH US NOW Feel the mother in the ground you walk upon Tiny feet dancing prayers for seven generations. Seven generations. Seven generations.

— Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Witch Burning,” c. October 1961