Abandon

For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said “yes” when we wanted to say “no.” And for far too long we have said “no,” when we desperately wanted to say “yes”. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls.

And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.

Terry Tempest Williams

Parade

Heart

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.

Anne Lamott

Private

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

Clifton Fadiman

Gumption

Air

Wild Child

Running wild, like an innocent child

Flowers in my hair, barefoot on the grass

Joyful, bold and free!

Growing with the seasons

Following the Sun!

Spirals of falling leaves, birds singing nearby ...

-Is this a dream? - My heart excited yells.

-No, my precious child - answers the Southern Wind ...

-It is just you enjoying a simple life.

Poem and picture by Olga Denton

Explore

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

Leonard Nimoy

1931 - 2015