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Wrote this for @jkoverby a couple weeks ago Psalm 151 - One Plus One Equals One You are the bridge that gets me over the low places, What holds me together between the gaps. When I feel like I have lost myself, You are the way and the map. Not all who wander are lost But I feel like I am wandering in the dark. Traveling blindly down a path that I can’t see, You light my pathway with your spark. I feel unstable, unknowing what’s ahead, You lead me out of the shadow of death, When I’m just holding on by a thread, You are the one who gives me breath You are my life, you are my truth, You are my wife, you are my roots, When times are hard, you help me through, You’re my counterpart, we’ve been fused, Now one plus one equals one, not two (at Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVayU-WJTfa/?utm_medium=tumblr

When the distractions of this world Become too much for me, I must put them away . I return to the still silence That keeps me . When I lose the ability To sit idle without needing noise, Or I grow restless when I’m still, I lose my online passwords Before I lose my mind . When I forget to look At the people at the cash registers And move without connection, I slow down, look at name tags And into eyes, I remember mindfulness . When I lose sight of her, When I reach for an iPhone First thing in the morning Instead of her hand, When I look at screens Before I see her face, I put the screens away, Resuming my morning meditations On the miracle of waking up beside her . Be present to the people in front of you from moment to moment. Electronics and technology have a way of clouding our vision for the people sitting next to us. Uncloud your life, look around. Be present. . #ericoverby (at Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTM2xLwrz7L/?utm_medium=tumblr

#ericoverby

We have a tendency to talk too much and never be silent, to hurry and never wait or be still, to Facebook and never be present to those in front of our face, to watch TV and never read, send a tweet but never really watch a bird, to drive and never walk, to keep distant and never forgive, to put up walls and never love. Be silent, Be still, Be present, Listen, Read, Look, Walk, Forgive, LOVE! (at HERE NOW) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTDbLUgpO4_/?utm_medium=tumblr

The pull of busyness and screens Call my heart to wander into a fog. I must be still so the quiet clarity Of the mind will return And from the stillness and void A voice may emerge. . #ericoverby #technologyaddict #poetrylovers #kentuckyliving (at Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS-YgSesPae/?utm_medium=tumblr

#ericoverby #technologyaddict #poetrylovers #kentuckyliving

I never lost that feeling Or the look in my eyes Cause every time I see you It’s always like the first time (at Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSz97lLpWyQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

“I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.” (at Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSr3-N5JELn/?utm_medium=tumblr

“I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures.” (at Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSr2twRpDkH/?utm_medium=tumblr

One look can leave me breathless, Full of life and wonder. I lose track of everything, Lose hold of myself, Lose myself into you. Simultaneous loss and gain. Loss of words, until they are meaningless And I stare into the only thing That matters anymore. I don't need To say a word, you already know. So do I. So I stand silent, Like a mystic towards the flame. (at Russell Springs, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnGkw7pWEX/?utm_medium=tumblr

⏳ (at Russell Springs, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSRYqfLLa8O/?utm_medium=tumblr

“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting” Poe (at Russell Springs, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSKu0i1MEvj/?utm_medium=tumblr

🪟 A window is like a poem, A world you can see but cannot touch. Like words on a paper, Describing the moment, Just out of reach of the reader. (at Russell Springs, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSEvONGri80/?utm_medium=tumblr

Cloud, Rain, River, Ocean, Cloud (at Russell Springs, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSDA37EJjQG/?utm_medium=tumblr

⛰ (at Smokey Mountain Tenneessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSALqdDJ5D0/?utm_medium=tumblr

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. . What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, you position is shaky. When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. . What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear? Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear? . See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things. Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching (at Gatlinburg, Tennessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR6S7j_pFde/?utm_medium=tumblr

On a pilgrimage To no place particular, Destinationless . 17: Haiku Poems (at The Woods) https://www.instagram.com/p/CR2DpP9p23u/?utm_medium=tumblr

Donated a copy of my books to @russellcolibrary on Thursday. If you are interested in reading any of them, without having to spend the money to purchase them, you can find them there for free. Hope you enjoy them! (at Russell Springs, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRwK_lIJmWf/?utm_medium=tumblr

Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. . The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice. . Therefore the Master remains serene in the midst of sorrow. Evil cannot enter his heart. Because he has given up helping, he is people’s greatest help. . True words seem paradoxical. -Lao Tzu- (Tao Te Ching, chapter 78, translation by Stephen Mitchell) (at Smokey Mountain Tenneessee) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRrlY2qps3g/?utm_medium=tumblr

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