time to make something nice

A tiny nest with four perfect eggs 

speckled with blue 

oh tomorrow 

you are such a delightful tease 

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I dream up a  mad adventure where reality has no place, and wake to the reality that dreaming only keeps me separated from the present. And it is only the present that is real. All of this with my morning coffee as the new dawn slowly floods the sky and the earth with its perfect and beautiful light.

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Mixing grains to make bread  

mixing people to make a city   

to make a nation  

my brother   

my sister  

let the ovens of the world be lit  

it’s time to make something nice  

james lee jobe 

Without healthy boundaries to enable self-preservation and allow self-care, it may be difficult to cultivate the steady stream of energy that is required to walk the path.

Tara Anand, “Is an Aspiring Bodhisattva Allowed to Have Boundaries?”

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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Pema Chödron

LINK: on fathers & swords, a poem by Jayson P. Smith

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