The earth, the sky, and the creek.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Dorothy Day

A burrowing owl peeps out at you
from the late side of dusk.
The garden accepts the water you give it
as if it were a lovely gift.
A bold lizard darts across the trail
right in front of your clumsy footsteps.

What does the earth want from us?

This valley lives and breathes
like a dear friend.
Through many handsome days
and gentle nights
we all share this space,
we live this life.

James Lee Jobe

Stephen Stills - The Ballad Of Hollis Brown

Dreaming down by Putah Creek, in a hole in the ground. You are a burrowing owl, sleeping beneath the world where the sounds of the creek lull you into watery dreams. In these dreams sometimes you are a fish, swimming fast through cold water. Sometimes you are the sun, shining like a diamond in the sky. The earth, the sky, and the creek are your heaven. And in this heaven, you dream on and on.

James Lee Jobe

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Eckhart Tolle

I was asleep, and I dreamed of a life with no hands.
Instead, at the end of each arm was a large, evil crow.

Whenever these crows would caw, a person died,
not where I was, but faraway in a place that is nameless.

I struggled to keep the crows quiet, but I failed.
I woke up from the dream exhausted,

still shushing the damned crows on my arms.
It was my own dream, and I had death for hands.

James Lee Jobe

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. 

Buddha

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