“We are differently shaped. For the most malformed of us, it is not a shape of our own choosing. Except it is, and we are not malformed no matter what words we whisper inside our own hearts. It’s time to learn what these shapes we are can do instead of wishing to be diamonds. Even lumpy coal can be useful.” ~ Audrey Faye, Poet
Personally, I think coal is more useful than diamonds ….
Be kind, always.
Pretty sunset from yard ….
Pretty Flowers 
“Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.”
― S.C. Lourie
“Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.”
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“None of us is just one thing. We’re not all good or all bad. We’re a blend of shadow and light. And those sparks only shine because of the darkness.”
~Peter Cawdron; Starship Mine
“All of space is mind-boggling to try to imagine. That’s why I love it so much. It makes you stretch your mind. People don’t stretch their minds enough. That’s why so many of them are narrow-minded.”
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde; Life, Loss and Puffins
Our attention brings everything to life and makes real what was previously unnoticed or unreal ….
~Joe Dispenza
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~ Wendell Berry