one step at a time we climb the hill together no one walks alone #vss365 #Ascend #Senryu #Haiku #Poetry #Micropoetry #JustWrite #WritingCommunity #BlueskyPoets

"Everything will be okay. Good things last, and the bad things will fade away." (Tanner Patrick)

I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.

Bernadette Gervais #art Métamorphose

#vss365 ferris lights spin, and laughter #coasts through cotton candy air sweet, sticky summer nights 

#vss365 dusk a single hawk #coasts above the tree-line I merge with it and fly

"𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵." - 𝘌𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯

𝐼𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟. ~ 𝐵𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑎 𝐾𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟

Everybody has an opinion. Very few have examined it. Even fewer have survived the examination.

The measure of a mind is not what it knows, but how gracefully it carries what it does not.

Soft spoken and sublime

L'unification est la racine de tout mystère Ziqian Liu

The real in us is silent. The acquired is talkative. ~Kahlil Gibran

The art of loving teaches me that I will be forever the artist.

the silence is nøt empty. it's alive…✨

solitaire

Just the sight of flowers stretching as far as the eye can see In the wide avenues of well-tended gardens, And already we feel That life is easy. Fernando Pessoa

Koyasan, Japan, in the rain. Photography by Al Case

Hiroshima, Japan.

#vss365 #poetry #simile out my window day and night light and darkness day and night light and darkness like a vast animal breathing

‘Storms Never Last.’ #Painting by Friedrich Kunath #art

You're not just yourself You're a part of everything in the universe If you harm someone, You harm yourself Same if you do something good. ~ Natalia Motuzko, ‘The Voice of Grass’ (1992) #Photography, Red-necked Tanager, Atlantic Forest of Brazil, by Barradoboto.

To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours. ~ Fernando Pessoa, ‘The Book of Disquiet’ (c. 1930) #Painting, Elena Wuest, ‘Beyond.’

‘Bending Towards Light.’ #Painting by Ivy Jacobsen #art

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