Sand Swirl

Contemplating continual change is a poignant experience. It can feel sad or scary…I want time to slow down. The speed at which it moves just takes my breath away…

Feeling sad or anxious is natural when we reflect on the passage of time and the fading of all our experiences…In that very fear, in that very melancholy, is our compassionate heart, our immeasurable wisdom, our connection to all other living beings on this planet…

Pema Chodron, ‘How We Live Is How We Die”

Circli, Ofloat

…fear and anxiety are not the same at all. One is an appropriate response to a real situation which I can accept and learn to work through just as I work through semi-blindness. But the other, anxiety, is an immobilizing yield to things that go bump in the night, a surrender to namelessness, formlessness, voicelessness, and silence.

Audre Lorde, “The Cancer Journals”

I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.