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Tailor your actions
To good mending.
Take care to not
Rip apart
What should be kept.
Adjust your thoughts
So they can fit your conscience
In its Sunday best.
Shape your ways
To outfit what your soul believes in
Sewn to perfect
Silhouette.
Attune to kindness
So it can help you
Choose
The right attire
For your heart.
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As you travel paths of current days, new plans … remember times of past: The journeys never taken, the ones you had and wish you hadn’t, the ones you had and would again, the ones still left to seek and find.
Recall the feel of face against the window, the mist of breath on glass, the passing scenery, the whoosh of trucks, the sway of train, the rock of boat, the hum of plane.
Revisit muted conversations, real or invented, arguments and whining, complains and “I spy” games, “she’s touching me” and “99 bottles” songs.
Sensations, shared or private. Fall-asleep-legs, sticky vinyl against summer skin, hair in eyes, road grit, sweet treats, cold drinks. The heaviness of someone’s slumber on your shoulder, the lull of road weighing your own lids down.
And music. Radioed or piped through earphones. Sang loudly, hummed, internally known, ignored. The way the beat or words or both matched blur of blacktop under wheels or rain on windshield; the way it sometimes did not match at all.
Be still. Be rocked. Be moved. Be carried.
Allow yourself to be transported, taken back, imagined forward.
On this journey, your commute through life.
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“Ogunquit Duet”
I took this photo in Ogunquit, Maine, during the summer of 2009, as hurricane “Danny” rolled in. Air and water mixed into a mist of gray, as the ocean roiled closer and closer to the buildings and the clouds kissed the waves.
The beach was deserted other than for some miserable looking seagulls who huddled as near the building as they could … and the brave soul who attempted a stroll against the edge of the storm … pushing forward with the umbrella not as rain shield but as barrier against the driving wind.
A moment after I took this photo, the tension broke as a gust whipped the umbrella up and over this person’s head, almost turning them into a kite. A dance ensued: The human tried to turn the umbrella sufficiently into the wind so they could close it; the wind buffeted each duck and weave maneuver with rain, wet sand, and foamy mist.
“Danny” won.
A moment in time (Photo: Atara Katz)
In the pause
Between the breath in
And breath out
There’s a moment
In time
Of
Eternity
Slowed,
All movements
Frozen,
Thawed,
Life
Buoyed.
Be brave.
It’s time. It’s been time for too long. It feels eternity.
Take heart … tune off naysayers … and remove the grime of fakery and deception. Speak fact to polish off stains of misinformation, so Truth can once more spread its wings to sunlight, unburdened from prevarication.
Expose the burnish of veracity from under messy piles of perfidy.
Be kind, be firm, and wipe clean fib to showcase verity.
Reality awaits. Impatiently.
It is past time.
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As you stand at the precipice
Of truth
Take heed.
The climb back up
Is steep
If you lose grip
To deceit
Or greed.
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Reach deep into your soul
And you will see
Shared roots hold
All that we have ever been
And all that we are
Meant to be.
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Think deeply about life.
Hold people closely, gently, in your heart.
Think deeply of the things that nourish:
Care and hope, compassion, truth, light.
Think deeply about what you know
And what you still would like to find out knowledge of.
Think deeply of the seeds you plant
In your soul’s soil
In others’.
Think deeply of the past and all its lessons
Of the way it can shape future histories
Or repeat woe.
Think deeply of the power of both joy and sorrow
Of the choices that can lead to more of both
And which one matters more.
Think deeply of the path you walk
The roads you pave for children and their children’s children
For this Earth.
Think deeply of all this
And think beyond it
Yet above and through and in between all of this
Thinking
Breathe in light
Breathe out hope
Offer comfort
Cultivate love.
By Buddha Doodles
For The Daily Post
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