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“We can just let people be who they are ….” Glennon Doyle
As Sacred As I Does it bother you that she takes hormones, he puts on a dress, she passionately kisses her girlfriend on both lips, he strokes his boyfriend, he likes both and so does she, she experiments, he is confused? They are they, as sacred as I, and I celebrate their witness to love. Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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“Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.” Julian S. Huxley
Courage To Speak To say a word takes courage, to defend it takes more, worse still - the perceptions that seem to exponentially multiply in any one discussion, presenting rabbit holes to wander for all those who would blend truths like paint - while also offering steel traps, this takes fearless zeal. Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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“World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader.” Dalai Lama
Love Wins Out The separation of peoples, the division of colours, the disappearance of culture, the incarceration of peoples, the eruption of concrete walls, the ranking of right religious views, the diminishing of political views, the eradication of human rights, the ending of the individual, the destruction of community, all have been tried, all have, in the long term, ultimately failed the power of love and connection. Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.” Alan Watts
And What Now? Time, what a beautiful intersection, crossroad of divine encounter - what happens now? An irrational search for the superstition of reason or immersion in breathing, pathway to dreamworlds, opportunities of discovery extending forward into the world by vulnerability, and what now, do I fall in love? Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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Photo: Part of the Sacred Garden Walk at The Monastery, Adelaide.
“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
There Is No Map Lately I've noticed a change, the streets no longer sign themselves as Main, Brown, or lower whatever, I hear they're buying in, taking cover in context, relatively speaking, sending a signal like a boatswain's pipe squealing names we'd rather forget, though we well remember those avenues of sadness, echoing memories of roads we've all travelled; deprivation alley, abuse cul-de-sac, assault road, cancer circuit, failure loop, death row, lanes of grief, the streets of disillusionment, left or right, straight ahead, it makes no difference, life must be the journey, there is no map. Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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At dVerse Mish is hosting the Quadrille with an invitation to write a poem including the word shift or any of its forms.
dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Shift
“Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape.” Melody Beattie
The Shift A little tectonic or factory floor, maybe the goal posts, something gauzy, packing boxes, another house though perhaps not yours, third gear, down fourth, deckchairs, cattle to the top paddock, hit enter, blame, the sun its shadows, environmentalism, a shift in place and time. Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” Matsuo Basho
The Moment Sitting at day's end, a belated summer inferno, I should pack away the chairs, but why end the moment. The beer bottle is sad, tools still on the ground, I notice a rogue sucker on the lemon tree. Perhaps it is time for me to go. A fantail twits and flits mosquitos, the setting sun suggests a verse, O to be bitten by such love. Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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“Today a story is not told it’s sold.” Amit Abraham
On Loop We saddled, mounted the lie, stall eight, all others were empty, starter's gun sounds, and we're off; round and round we went, round and round we went, on loop, repeat, same on every channel, precision flogging, framing, hypnosis, until we believe that all is well, if we believe. Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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“The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.” Margaret Atwood
The house is older now casements bowed, roofline sagged, one day I'll fix it, I used to know those who could help but they are far away now, I remember the toy soldier I found while digging in the garden, the squeak of the old swing, screen door clacking shut, I have photos of those days, an old pentax long gone, it all seems in the distance now, and yet it feels like yesterday. Copyright 2023 ©️Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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In the times i needed most, I WAS ALONE. Real life stories through my life that hopefully can enspire someone struggling.
Words from Angela.
My original blog got too big. Time to downsize.
Serving The Family Caregiver
Videos and Music with Subliminal Joy affirmation meditation
Everything Organic
Poetry and Flash Fiction
In the times i needed most, I WAS ALONE. Real life stories through my life that hopefully can enspire someone struggling.
Words from Angela.
My original blog got too big. Time to downsize.
Serving The Family Caregiver
Videos and Music with Subliminal Joy affirmation meditation
Everything Organic
Poetry and Flash Fiction
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