#terrytempestwilliams

Passage I’m pondering — How shall I live? I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my life without becoming numb. I want to speak and comprehend words of wounding without having these words become the landscape where I dwell. I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars. This vascular malformation could bleed and burst. Or I can simply go on living, appreciating my condition as a vulnerable human being in a vulnerable world, guided by the songs of birds. What is time, sacred time, but the acceleration of consciousness? There are so many ways to change the sentences we have been given. We cannot do it alone. We do it alone. — Terry Tempest Williams

“Restraint is the steel partition between a rational mind and a violent one. I knew rage. It was fire in my stomach with no place to go.” #terrytempestwilliams #american #writer #educator #conservationist #activist #readafuckingbook #refugeanunnaturalhistoryoffamilyandplace https://www.instagram.com/p/CClpF-ShS9Z/?igshid=6am4qfc7fwzg

Every day, I walked. It was not a meditation, but survival, one foot in front of the other, with my eyes focused down, trying to stay steady. [when women were birds, p. 138 #terrytempestwilliams ]]] (at Boston Logan International Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2T96vhhvg/?igshid=1vh2lx144l8o2

Find your own Walden pond.#terrytempestwilliams #whenwomenwerebirds #colorado #coloradolilypad #itsafrogslife #serenity #ponds #naturelover #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/B9XsqdBBrzI/?igshid=1pgpud6f10qns

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us. #terrytempestwilliams #whenwomenwerebirds #findyourlight #cagedbirdsings #itsafrogslife #logcabinliving #logcabinliving #colorado #coloradolilypad #ambiantlight #cozycabin (at Colorado Lilypad) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9S2hvYBOut/?igshid=w1wi6j75pyhg

“If a man knew what a woman never forgets he would love her differently.” #whenwomenwerebirds #terrytempestwilliams #relationships #lovequotes #utah #utahphotographer #itsafrogslife (at Five Mile Pass) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KGnBUh0Rs/?igshid=1wbi57cp6pssa

There is such beauty in everything around us. The sky, the birds, the flowers, the breeze, the faces of our beloveds. Let’s heal the world with joy. #terrytempestwilliams #beauty #healtheworld https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz9lN1RHrSS/?igshid=1ml51jy6wsl2n

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things #TerryTempestWilliams #ritualsthatfeellikehome #sculpture #clay #justbreathe #takeitslow #madrid #timetofire #offtothekiln https://www.instagram.com/p/BpcT5IbDQ-5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1v3frf0rjr1o8