I can't sleep…
Photo by Geraint Smith Photography: “This week, my favorite cottonwood tree in all the state, and random black and whites on the road in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. I think the colors on this cottonwood peaked this morning (Oct 24, 2023). I never tire of seeing it whenever I commute to or from Taos, in all seasons.” (Thank you Beth)
Notes: The 2016 Summer Olympics kick off tonight. Photo: Rio de Janeiro’s mountaintop ‘Christ the Redeemer’ statue at sunrise. (wsj.com by Pfaffenback / Reuters)
It’s a beautiful thing
to have lungs that allow you to breathe air
and legs that allow you to climb mountains,
and it’s a shame that sometimes
we don’t realize that that’s enough.
– honalie
Notes:
Let’s walk around outside
and forget it is raining.
Let’s get soaked in all that noise.
Let’s be water all day,
and breathe like low tide when we sleep,
breathe like dew, and grateful faucets.
Let’s be the ice melting at the top of mountains—
that kind of clear.
~ Sophia Holtz, “Prayer to be Said on the Evening of a Terrible Day”
Credits: Poem Source: The Sensual Starfish. Photograph: Namaste