“You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life.”
Walt Whitman
Dazzle of the Light
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Nature Remains
“the bracing and buoyant equilibrium of concrete outdoor Nature, the only permanent reliance for sanity of book or human life.”
-Walt Whitman
“The trick is, I find, to tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies… After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.”
-Walt Whitman
Right Here Right Now
“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.”
-Walt Whitman
I And This Mystery
“I and this mystery, here we stand.”
-Walt Whitman “Song of Myself”
Fiery Kiss to the Night
“O setting sun! though the time has come, I still warble after you, if none else does, unmitigated adoration.”
-Walt Whitman
“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”
-Jo Walton
“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.”
-Crystal Woods
This Is What You Shall Do
Oh Walt Whitman!!
Timeless words that inspire me daily….
“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
-Walt Whitman
Solvitur Ambulando
It is solved by walking….
“The wanderers are everywhere.”
TWS
“We are infinite.”
TWS
Celebrating Freedom
How better to celebrate the freedoms we have then to be alive in each moment, with every molecule of our singular unique self brought to fruition. What a huge gift this freedom! To be able to live our highest truth without involvement from imposing powers not our own. Huge sacrifices have been made for these gifts.
Evolved and evolving, present, aware living are the fruits of this free life. Letting our being creatively express on the palette of the vibrant planet. Feeling deep gratitude. And yes! bringing to being all of our singular unique selves.
Yes, we are truly free.
Know it. Live it.
And may the creatures be wild and free!
Freedom lies in being bold.
–Robert Frost
Freedom – to walk free and own no superior.
–Walt Whitman
Resolve and thou art free.
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow