James I drew you, Kamilah, and myself drawing as you asked. Picture of it is crap but I could scan it better later 🙂
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(via gatekeeper)
If everyone contributes, things get done, yet even when it feels like no one else is contributing, it’s still worth doing what you can, because if no one did anything because no one else was doing anything absolutely nothing would get done. The more people who decide to make positive impact on the world, the better.
Elena, a six-year-old with brain cancer had only a little time left to live. So with her last months on earth she decided to leave behind a multitude of notes for her younger sister and parents. She hid the notes around the house in books and CD cases. And after she passed away the parents discovered hundreds of these notes around their house. Often with pictures and phrases like “I love you Mom, Dad and Grace.”
This is really touching, you can read more about it here, and even buy a book with some of the notes in it.
This is so beautiful and sad and lovely that I cried
(via bookshelves)
I would be very happy there.
It’s okay though, I’m happy here too, with Nature Girl, Runaways, Sea Star and How to Be Good piled up by my bed
A superior person cares for the well-being of all things. She does this by accepting responsibility for the energy she manifests, both actively and in the subtle realm. Looking at a tree, she sees not an isolated event but root, leaves, trunk, water, soil and sun: each event related to the others, and “tree” arising out of their relatedness. Looking at herself or another, she sees the same thing. Trees and animals, humans and insects, flowers and birds: These are active images of the subtle energies that flow from the stars throughout the universe. Meeting and combining with each other and the elements of the earth, they give rise to all living things. The superior person understands this, and understands that her own energies play a part in it. Understanding these things, she respects the earth as her mother, the heavens as her father, and all living things as her brothers and sisters. Caring for them, she knows that she cares for herself. Giving to them, she knows that she gives to herself. At peace with them, she is always at peace with herself.
The Rambling Taoist (via gardyloo)
We, as human beings aren’t separate from the environment, we are a part of it, and by destroying it, we could destroy ourselves
something old
And I remember in that second telling myself to catch this moment and put it in my pocket along with the flowers and tiny blue eggs. Because soon it would be gone and I would only be writing about it, the careless, secretive wind, the hum of the conversing aspen trees, the mountains behind me and the valleys below me. Because soon everything is gone and everyone goes somewhere else, and new things grow and old things die and it’s all precious and painful and a little bit sacred. And while we’re all scared of change, we wither without it. It may not be obvious, but we rot, slowly and leisurely.
So trap your dear moments, put them somewhere with all your pressed flowers and treasured robin’s eggs so that when you move on, you can bring some beautiful things with you, if only to remind you in the dark places that once there was light, and there will be light again.
This speaks to my heart