learning to set some limits

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Bodhidharma

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A friend so full of anger and judgment 

that is hard to be friends anymore 

trying to learn to set some limits 

to protect my soul from this 

walking in the park to clear my head 

to be present now 

meditation on the park bench 

a cool delta breeze blows across the park 

south to north 

up the Sacramento River from San Francisco Bay

from the Pacific 

from the Gulf of Alaska really 

coming around in an unbelievably huge circle 

one hundred miles inland 

to me 

it is a perfect thing 

cool 

fresh 

James Lee Jobe

juliana coles

I awoke to this life 07 November 1956 

in Baltimore Maryland, near the Chesapeake Bay 

Canadian geese migrate through there 

I like to imagine them flying 

high above Saint Agnes Hospital moving south 

perhaps crying out even as I made my first cry 

at 4:16 am 

Two hours before dawn came over the bay 

The suffering of my mother

James Lee Jobe

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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

Rumi

kevin young, oblivion

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