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November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
America reveals her heartbreaking contradictions: the immense love of a family ripped apart by inhumane policies, and the quiet humanity of an officer who, while he did not choose this pain, is forced to stand in its presence.
It is a portrait of injustice and also a portrait of conscience.
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it.
You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine.
When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful.
You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.”
*Thich Nhat Hanh
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
you stand
in need
of your own
compassion

be
generous
towards
yourself 🪷
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
When we find ourselves in the place to receive truth, it’s there for us. All that is required is to drop any pre-conceived opinion and entertain another idea.
If it’s not what you expected, at least investigate the possibility. @hcrichardson.bsky.social shines a light into the dark for us.
♢🌷☀︎
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody.

If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere.

So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else."
*Papaji
🎨 Park Hang Ryul
November 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
“As goes the Indian and Buffalo, the wild turkey has been compelled to yield to the destructive ingenuity of the white settlers."

Bonaparte, Charles

🎨 Artwork by Titian R. Peale
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
in the
current chaos

practice
gratitude 🪷
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Praise and blame,
gain and loss,
pleasure and sorrow
come and go like the wind.
To be happy,
rest like a giant tree
in the midst of them all.

☀︎。*ૐ☼ ☀︎ the Buddha
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
so
lightly
this
life
this
time
around 🪷
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Peace is not in the wet coolness of the forests
or in the imposing summit of the mountains
or in the interior of the caves.

The peace you seek is in the same place where you inhabit your turmoil and your suffering.
*Ajahn Chah
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
November steals light.
Its groaning,
overstuffed table force-feeding December’s mandatory twinkle. Sticky
sugar & shine.
A buffer for the hangover
January brings,
when we huddle & low,
hay damp
in our shuttered mangers,
pockets emptied
of savings & saviors

🖊️Amy Dryansky
Forecasting
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
゚゚ 。 ・゚゚。
゚. books
 ゚・。 。゚゚・。・゚゚。
◌ tea
  ゚・。 。゚゚・。・゚゚。
◌ naps
 ゚・。・゚
November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
📷 Lilian Öis
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
the librarian’s cat

for some time
she called me Naomi
while she read
The Tree is Older Than You Are

for a short time
i was nayyirah
as she devoured
salt and nejma

for months
i was Gabriel
steeped like tea
in One Hundred Years of Solitude
and Love in the Time of Cholera
🪡
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
the call had been urgent
eight days ago, at least
dr smashlove’s bicycle
roadside skeleton of ice ru

Amsterdam, "Brouwersgracht"
📷©️Niki Bruno Photography
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
the
beasts
within
us
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🍁 🦊 🍂

source - My Modern Met
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
you don't have to love someone
to pray for them
in fact, you don't even have to like them
but if you are able to pray for those
who may need your prayers the most
to find the right path
to amend their journey
those that suffer the harshest conditions 🪡
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“Because of your smile,
you make life more beautiful.”

Thich Nhat Hanh
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
seconds and minutes
into hours
into afternoons
evenings
days and nights into
weeks and months
and the years
all of the years
you wrote me down
wrote me
weeping
and laughing
and living
and you wrote me
loving you, loving you, loving you ru
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
you have to
keep
breaking your heart
until it opens
*Rumi

the ruins of Wat Chai Wattanaram
in Ayuttahaya, Thailand
📷©️ Brian Busovicki
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
here
in this quiet white
and you there
in such splendor
could i have imagined such depth could you have imagined such ease ru

📷©️ Michael Hassler
Study in Autumn 1
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
as the rusted gate
holds autumn
for the day
you've held me
on autumn days
when i clung
to words
in the pages
kitten-eared
blood-stained
marked-over
ode to Neruda ru
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM