#steve flowers

[travelbinge]

Mt. Sneffels Wilderness by Steve Flowers

Colorado, USA

[steveandharry]

Stephen "Steve" Flowers was born in Chicago in 1981. When Flowers was twelve, his younger brother's kidnapping shattered his worldview, leaving him lonely and confused. In 2013, the twentieth anniversary of the kidnapping came around, the case having been closed and deemed unsolvable years ago, and Flowers just couldn't take it. He turned to the supernatural, something he'd deemed silly and superstitious but now was his only option. He offered his soul to the Devil in exchange for his brother's safe return home.

Harrison "Harry" Flowers was born in Chicago in 1985. At age eight, he was presumably kidnapped, as nothing else could account for his sudden disappearance. In 2013, he returned just as suddenly as he'd vanished, showing up at the door of his childhood home holding hands with a small child he claimed to be his son.

Harrison "Junior" Flowers the Second was born at an unknown location, allegedly in 2007. The child's birth was undocumented, and his existence was unknown until 2013.

Can you believe this is supposed to be a comedy?

[carnage-blog1]

We all live in mental and emotional worlds that we essentially create and perpetuate with the habits of mind or stories that we tell ourselves. We tend to identify completely with the stories we repeat to ourselves and others and create afflictive mental and emotional states that bring much suffering into our lives. In this way we can say, as Paul Simon reminds us in his song “Patterns”, that “From the moment of our birth to the day that we grow old, our lives are made of patterns that can scarcely be controlled.” Stuck in these patterns that define our false selves, we can’t see our true nature nor realize that we are infinitely more than the habits of mind that we’ve been stuck in for so long. Mindfulness enables us to be the observing consciousness that is aware of these patterns but is not caught in them. Compassion enables us to soothe our own troubled hearts and reach out to alleviate the suffering in the lives of others.