Lidocaine Cake on a Hook

There are moments in the everyday that invite us to stay tethered to where we are... Moments that are opportunities to practice mental and emotional weightlifting, through a conscious willingness to delve into what we find uncomfortable, an opportunity to enter into the rawness of our experience.

Deferring to Others

Some people defer to others in the form of physical comforts, like allowing others to get their share of food before eating themselves, helping to meet the physical needs of others before themselves.

Some people likely defer in the form of psychological and emotional space, allowing others to live out and express their psychology, allowing mental space and room for such expression.

The Fires of Eternity

Embers burn, filling the air with suffocating soot and smoke
In what feels like the heaviest eternity
Until true Eternity reveals itself...
Reunited with the eternal warmth...
Reunited with the fires from within:
True North

Love Just Is and Love Just Isn't

There exists a love deep within the psyche that isn't dependent upon fulfilling needs related to continuous material existence...

There also exists a love that is expressed in the fulfillment of needs related to continuous material existence, meeting needs, wants, and desires related to our continued physical survival.

The physical form serves as a medium where the love that exists deep within, can be felt and expressed. As humans we cannot experience one without the other.

The Suffocating Storm Comes in Like a Flash Flood

The suffocating storm comes in like a flash flood...
And all I can do is attempt to ride it out while in a powerless state...
To do my best to take shelter if possible...
And wait, and wait some more...
With the hope of remembering or seeing the sun...

Tethered To The Earth

Before inflating and floating off into the sky
Tether oneself to the earth
Before sinking too deeply into the ground below
Tether oneself to the earth

Anchor, and remain connected
To the humblest of ground

Accepting the Reality of Dream States

For the most part when we dream, we are unaware that we are dreaming. We believe the experience to be reality, which creates the opportunity to live out many lives. The roles that we fall into with each dream, the environments we live in and experience... we go along with it because we believe it to be real.

I often wonder how much waking life is like this... the going along and acceptance of role and environments.... and acting out in a way that is consistent with the reality we believe to be true... going along with the narrative that exists, not really knowing where it came from, and likely not questioning it, but living through it...