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Pelicans at Point Loma, CA

Point Loma

Some summer sunset in California

Before you speak ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, it is true, does it improve upon the silence?

Shirdi Sai Baba (via delucazade)

For What Binds Us

There are names for what binds us: strong forces, weak forces. Look around, you can see them: the skin that forms in a half-empty cup, nails rusting into the places they join, joints dovetailed on their own weight. The way things stay so solidly wherever they've been set down -- and gravity, scientists say, is weak. And see how the flesh grows back across a wound, with a great vehemence, more strong than the simple, untested surface before. There's a name for it on horses, when it comes back darker and raised: proud flesh, as all flesh is proud of its wounds, wears them as honors given out after battle, small triumphs pinned to the chest --

And when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud; how the black cord makes of them a single fabric that nothing can tear or mend. ~ Jane Hirschfield ~

(Of Gravity & Angels)

Alive in the World

I want to live in the world, not inside my head. I want to live in the world. I want to stand and be counted with the hopeful and the willing, with the open and the strong, with the voices in the darkness fashioning daylight out of song, and the millions of lovers. Alive in the world. -Jackson Browne