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the humbling river
Looking over to Indiana from Kentucky at Riverside, Farnsley-Moreman Landing “May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke...
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a post in 10 minutes (or, hopefully, less)
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” ― May Sarton Just for today, have fun listening to a musical experience in authenticity. For today...
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rhythm and ritual
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher.” ― Chuck Palahniuk “Sometimes it’s helpful to remember that every writer sits down to...
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be an authentic artist
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” ― C.G. Jung “Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and...
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toss your story off the bridge
Crossing Two Bridges “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” ― Søren Kierkegaard “All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all...
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Wordless Wednesday: #HappyDay & Happy Spring
Image Copyright 2012-2013 Kim Upton “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
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the old wise crow
The trouble with magic is that there’s too much it just can’t fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn’t help much. The useful...
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to give up, is to be okay with grace
“Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.” — Luke 23:46 “Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be...
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rule of thirds
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” -James Joyce “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full...
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finding the still spot(s)
“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am...
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“and they always return”
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” ― Franz Kafka “Now, Kalamas, don’t go by reports, by...
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admitting what is true
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”― Augustine of Hippo “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the...
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welcome to the new age
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I...
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no skies are falling
the wisdom circle/sees all things as they are now/no room for judgement – kim upton “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ―Socrates “It is good to tame the mind, as it is difficult to...
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shhh…I am listening to you
“Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.” ― Madeleine L’Engle, Swiftly Tilting Planet “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never...
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interdependence
Original artwork by Kim Upton, All Right Reserved “The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can’t have it. The minute you don’t...
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to be a disciplined in your passion
Of late the kids and I have been seriously digging on the song Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. At any moment, all of us will break out into this song. The lyrics are intensely interesting, and there...
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my chickens know the sky isn’t falling – do yours?
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I...
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in the world of paper snakes
Paper Snake by Kim Upton “With his mind thus concentrated, purified, & bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant, malleable, steady, & attained to imperturbability, he directs &...
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