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Rainbow Mountain of Peru by Katarina Mandarina

Magical Spot on the River

starting tomorrow i will be a real person in this world

i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)

“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.”

― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

Willamette Valley, Oregon by Bonnie Moreland

My favorite from along the fence this week.

*makes this noise at you*

““Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness.Desire is devotion. By all means be devoted to the real, the infinite,the eternal heart of being. Transform desire into love. All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be are expressions of your longing for happiness.””

—

 Sri Nisargadatta 

(via omomniaum)

thinking about her

~~Alchemy~~

(c) gif by riverwindphotography, April 2024

“The rule for all terrors is to head straight into them. When you are sailing in a storm, you don’t let a wave hit your boat on the side. You go bow into the wave and ride it. So in the same way, old folklore says, this is an old wives tale with a lot of truth in it, whenever you meet a ghost don’t run away, because the ghost will capture the substance of your fear and materialise itself out of your own substance and will kill you eventually, because it will take over all your own vitality. So then, whenever confronted with a ghost, walk straight into it and it will disappear. So in the same way, when people stir up the depths of the unconscious and are confronted with their own monsters….when you get that sense of terror, go right at it, don’t run away. Explore, feel the fear as completely as you can feel it. Head straight into it and just it so happens that these things give you the opportunity to go into some of your very, very most closely kept skeletons and the result of that is invariably beneficial.”

— Alan Watts, The Rule for All Terrors