#jonathanbgardner

[jonathanbgardner]

I seem to find myself the most in places with which I am unfamiliar.

jbg

[jonathanbgardner]

Nobody teaches you how to be a decent person. Either you are or you aren’t. You cannot learn to become one, but you can lose your goodness. You can leave it in the bathroom lying on the sink when you go out into the world, lying beside your hairbrush and toothpaste and gathering dust. To be good, you must press it deep within your back pocket so that it may never fall out. Never lose your goodness, for it will never return, no matter how hard you may try.

jbg

[jonathanbgardner]

We flew upon the wind, allowing it to take us where it willed, stuffing our pockets with memories along the way.

jbg

[jonathanbgardner]

I've searched desperately among the innumerable words within my vocabulary, hoping to find one that might explain just how beautiful you are, and I have failed miserably. All I can say is this; you are inexplicably beautiful, beautiful beyond the point of explanation.

jbg

[jonathanbgardner]

You're so entirely beautiful, my darling, both within and without, and I can do nothing but love you for it.

jbg

[jonathanbgardner]

Experiencing the world without the narrative of human voices is at once both splendid and intoxicating. Sometimes one must simply enjoy the inhumanity expressed within nature, rather than marring it’s beauty with the spoken word.

jbg

[jonathanbgardner]

Reedy River Falls in Greenville, SC

[jonathanbgardner]

my mind dances uncontrollably, moving from place to place. it spins with no thought of any method of controlling itself, cut loose on the world to live out every fantasy it may have.

jbg

8:46pm, 3.4.2016