 
      
      Sketchbook Alchemy: The Magic of Play
There’s a kind of freedom that only comes when we let go of the need to make something “good.”
 
      
      One Beautiful Act: A Vision for a Flourishing World
Although the world seems like a chaotic and frightening place at the moment, there is a quiet rebellion stirring. It is not rooted in anger or conquest, but in deep compassion and radiant wholeness.
 
      
      Aido Hwedo: West African Creation Dragon
Before the Earth was formed the genderless Creator God, named Nana-Buluku by the Fon people of Dahomey, created a companion dragon called Aido Hwedo who was both male and female. It was a dragon able to move with ease between Heaven and Earth who carried the Creator in its mouth. They travelled together into the physical realms to create the world as we know it.
 
      
      5 Heartfelt Ways to Celebrate the Landscape
Placemaking doesn’t have to be about rooting yourself in a single spot forever; it’s about valuing and nurturing the place you happen to be living in at the moment.
Maybe the old adage is true, “Home is where the heart is.”
 
      
      Cast Adrift on a Perilous Sea
Life is like the edge of an ice floe. Sometimes it is the best place to stand. The fishing and hunting are bountiful, we are safe as the thick ice supports us, and the universe is generous in its offerings.
At other times, the ice can suddenly become treacherous. It breaks away from the shoreline and we are cast adrift into a fearful and endless sea.
 
      
      I Had His Six
I had his six. It was my job to watch his back and help keep him safe from harm. He had been deathly sick and was vulnerable. I had his back, but then I looked away. It was only for a moment, but it changed everything.
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      I Call Great Cupid [Eros], Source Of Sweet Delight
I Call great Cupid [Eros], source of sweet delight, holy and pure, and lovely to the sight;Darting, and wing’d, impetuous fierce desire, with Gods and mortals playing, wand’ring fire:
 
      
      I’m Not Like an Ordinary World
“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
― Charles Bukowski