73 & Sunny

a collection of thoughts, images, reflections & quotes that celebrate the beautiful bittersweetness of life.

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tonight.

Sitting, nostalgic.

Looking. Remembering. Feeling.

  This place, the time passed here.

Has shaped me.

The people, who have filled this space with me.

  Moments replay themselves in my head (or is that my heart?)

They are weighty.

I feel them in the very fibers of my body.

Still sitting,

determined not to shake them off.

But to absorb it all.

All the pain,

All the joy,

All the sheer “life”

that has passed by

in this space.

  It goes with me,

and yet

I leave it behind.

  Tonight, it is the walls that tell the stories. I laugh and cry with them.

Tomorrow, it is my eyes, my essence, that will carry each one.

I invite each of these memories, moments, to find their home in me.

And I am forced to expand

And grow to include them all.

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death is the most inventive part of life.

-jason russell

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I am no Jedi, but I know the Force. It moves through and surrounds every living thing. Close your eyes... feel it... the light... its always been there... it will guide you.

Maz Kanata

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The way to find the real 'world' is not merely to measure and observe what is outside us, but to discover our own inner ground. For that is where the world is, first of all in my deepest self.... This 'ground,' this 'world' where I am mysteriously present at once to my own self and to the freedoms of all others, is not a visible and determined structure with fixed laws and demands. It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself my own unique door.

Thomas Merton, Contemplation in a World of Action

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i am trying to remember you and let you go at the same time.

-the mourn (from Salt by Nayyirah Waheed)

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death is not the end of anything but the final completion of becoming fully alive.

Fr. Thomas Keating

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lenten lessons on life and death, as taught by this city park. #payattention #eyecatcher #honorthereal #dyingoftheday #winter #citysolitude #recreation

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"This discovery of ourselves is always a losing of ourselves -- a death and resurrection.

Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

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feel it. the thing that you don't want to feel. feel it. and be free.

nayyirah waheed

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sunset soundtrack. #recreation #NowPlaying The Beauty Surrounds by Houses

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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Rumi

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Resolved. To write.

Every day.

No time? Writing takes not time. Editing does.

And who wants to read edited musings? What fun is that?

What reality is there in thoughts made to sound like something they weren’t? Or like what I think they should be?

Resolved. Write the real.

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today's lunch table, jam packed with goodness. the tastes (thanks to the culinary brilliance of @kellynperham), the sounds (thanks to a little old-school MJ spinning on vinyl), the company (thanks to @notoriouslud for putting up with me for 15 years), the ambiance... all of it, gift. #gohere #youwontbesorry #anniversarylunch #thetable (at Outpost Kitchen)

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A ruby is not lovelier than a rock, an angel not more glorious than a frog.

Angelus Silesius in Messenger of the Heart by Frederick Franck

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Silence is the best response to mystery.

Kathleen Norris

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#wheremyheadsat "In the outer world, the rules of prudence and sensible self-care, (based on the perception of scarcity and contingency), are readily confirmed, and sensible management prevails. We dabble in radical trust and call that dabbling good. In the inner world the purified heart directly sees the luminous web of "giving-is-receiving" that holds everything together, and by joining in its dynamism actually confirms its existence." -Bourgeault Thinking tonight about comfort and consumption vs. the economics of radical giving. Wanting so much to more than "dabble" in that "giving-is-receiving" way of life and sad that, when it comes to my own generosity, "sensible" wins over "radical" most of the time. #workingonthat