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🎶 Oh Christmas Tree, oh Christmas Tree, Thy leaves are so unchanging... 🎶🎄

Αrt by Inari Krohn.

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Merry Christmas! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Why later life can be a golden age for friendship

I'm too old to be young, and too young to be old, but I'm never going to be a bitter old codger. I'm going to be that old person that'll strike up a conversation with anyone. 💖

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Since the day after the election, I've been in this spiritual demilitarized zone between the everyday life going on immediately around me, and all the "stuff" going on in the whole wide world. I'm not in denial. I'm no longer numb. I'm still grieving, but only for the last remnants of my naivety. I fully accept reality and intend to live life on life's terms. I'm on this path that is composed of an amalgamation of 12 step recovery, stoicism, absurdism, Buddhist Dharma, Taoism, Christ like empathy and love, pagan awe of nature, scientific awe of the quantum and the cosmos; all the wisdom of great writers of literature, poetry, music, stage, and screen; plus all the feels brought to the surface from visual arts, paintings, sculpture, architecture, and the like. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and everything is a balance. Action, reaction...

My montra for the foreseeable future, "Less queer fear, more queer action." And love is a verb, y'all. Probably the greatest action word in every form of the human language. Love transcends cultural barriers. Love transcends time and space. And in times of fear and hate, it is the greatest act of defiance.

If I'm breathing, I'm okay; and love is all I need.

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I do not exist in binary terms.

U can grieve and still live life. U can miss loving someone and love others. You can hold onto the good moments and simultaneously the bad moments. You can take the learning from a person you let go off and use it for the better. You can love someone and they may not be the right person. You can wish someone the best and love them from a distance. You can think fondly of someone and never talk to them again.. mysteries of the world…

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I will always be appropriate, but I will always be true. I will live and love wide open. I'm stronger than people give me credit for. I'm not going to tell them. They'll figure it out. What they think now is none of my business anyways. Ain't got time for that. That makes me free. 💛

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It feels good to be getting tight with the concept of a higher power. Like, there's limitless energy and love in the universe to draw from. It'll never leave me. It won't die until I do, and even then, I'm just returning to it. Maybe that's what Dark Matter and Dark Energy are .... and mabe that's why there's more of it than visible and detectable matter. I have no qualms mixing the physical with the metaphysical. The day you can show me where your consciousness or your soul is, that'll be the day I stop believing in a higher power. Until then, I'm just row, row, rowing my boat, gently down the steam, merrily knowing that life is but a dream. ☯️

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Seriously, this is a superpower if you practice it long enough for it to become self-reinforcing. I'm sure there are a few different paths to get here. Mine has been through 12 Step meetings and practicing its principles. And by long enough, I mean months and years, not days and weeks. It's simple, but not easy.

Love yourself enough to sit with the discomfort of growth because you know you deserve better.

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Pepper, grooming Lola. A little blep and the end. So cute. 🐾

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Make up for future renfaires. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DLSdGLu4w/

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Time to wash my pretty face. 😻

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I love being awake after everyone has gone to bed. It's so lovely to exist outside of everyone's time and expectations. To just exist with no one to answer to but my higher self... but even my higher self is like, "Dude, this is chill."

Note to self: Go camping by myself twice next year. Once to figure it out again with my current gear and remember what it was like. I haven't camped solo since I was a teenager. And then go again so I already have a flow, and I can live with only the simple intention of existing for a few days.

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I love the freedom of doing whatever I want when I'm alone. No one to worry about irritating or consider their opinions when I want to chase my whimsical interests and distractions moment to moment. But I also love the intimacy of shared experiences. Everything feels more vivid when I'm with someone. But I feel things more deeply when alone. Neither is better, but I could scarcely imagine having both feelings at the same time. A Schrödinger's moment, if you will. Having both the absolute freedom of feelings when alone and a vivid intimacy while being with the right person. Would that be a soulgasm? ❤️‍🔥

— via letsbelonelytogetherr

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My family tells me that I shouldn’t be an open book with everyone bc it will make them treat me different or use what I say to hurt me in the future. I don’t ever feel ashamed of what I share with others. Bc how am I supposed to create meaningful connections w/people?? But I do see their pov… my question to you is how can I find a balance between being genuine and guarding my heart??

I think we can always be genuine but we don’t have to share everything with everyone. relationship are built on trust, slowly earning it and learning about each other without pouring our whole hearts out to people as soon as we meet them. a lot of people are just curious, or bored, and aren’t deserving of knowing your deep heart yet. I don’t think you need to be closed. just learn how to pace yourself with opening up. you aren’t being disingenuous by not sharing every bit with people. take your time feeling out who is safe, respectful, loving, patient, and wants to share their heart with you too. it is good to have a big, soft heart. don’t lose it. 🤍

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I love finding notes in the margins of second hand books I buy.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

(Edgar Allan poe)