Carl Phillips, “We Love In The Only Ways We Can”, You Are Here: Poetry In The Natural World

“It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.”

— Lemony Snicket, When Did You See Her Last?

color study: lavender blue by Ezra Leary

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Tal vez algún día nos podamos ver y podré decirte que estoy mejor, que ya no me dan ataques de ansiedad ni me dan ganas de llorar de repente, que aprendí a manejar mejor mis emociones y estas ya no me manejan a mi, algún día te podré agradecer con un café y tal vez un pastel, todo lo que hiciste por mi.

Release all those self-imposed restrictions and barriers against love and life and soar openhearted into the expansive now, no longer held in check by limitations.  

Recognize that everything needed

to claim your sovereignty lies within you.

Be still and tap into that inner goldmine

to cultivate the fortitude to take charge

of your life so that you can live life with

the right mindset.

Create personal spaces that are

conducive to reflectionfor mental

clarity and spiritual regeneration.

Allow your thoughts to echo the

sentiments of your heart to gain clarity,

free from mind coitus, no more confusion

which allows you to approach life with an

optimistic and empowered mindset that

favors you with a priceless sense of well-being. 

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After the aching has stopped and the tears have dried up, this is where you begin again. This is where you pick yourself up off the floor, put your heart back in your chest, and dare to put one foot in front of the other.

Kayil York

Gruppe aus Rosen - Martin Gerlach - 1893 - via MKG Hamburg

OVER THE GARDEN WALL (2014) cr. Patrick McHale