what we love and believe

K. Wayne Thornley

blue sky in the morning 

looking up into fresh air 

I am two kinds of a man 

sunrise and dusk 

or light and dark 

maybe right and wrong 

purple sky in the evening 

looking up into fresh air 

the choices I've made 

or failed to make 

the measure of a human life 

as the darkness grows 

as the darkness grows 

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sitting in a circle   but no fire 

this valley burns so easily now 

join hands    pray   dream of water 

joyous rain   the valley's bath 

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they come out of their everyday houses 

bearing rifles and pistols 

they exhale death with every breath 

hatred is their heartbeat and name 

judgment is the food that they eat 

and they want us dead 

because of what we love and believe 

people 

let love rule 

let kindness rule 

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Restraint and patience. Wisdom and diligence. Kindness and generosity. May I seek out ways to practice these every day, and be thankful that I can.

by james lee jobe 

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"It is better to do nothing than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself."

 The Dhammapada

"You are not separate from whatever you experience. You are one with it, in all of its seeming diversity."

Brian Thompson

"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."

Frank Zappa

A selfie by Picasso. (When he was young.)

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