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 🍃 The recent actions of our nation call for more poetry, more time in nature, more reflection, more intention. 🍃 #darkdays #leavesofgrass #nature #waltwhitman #poem #words #songofmyself #flashesofdelight #explore #travel #traveldeeper #theoutbound #summer #love #chasinglight #tree #sky #sailing #lake #reflection #mindfulness
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 🌸🌷🌼 #summer #solstice #flowers #shakespeare #love #color #theoutbound #chasinglight #flashesofdelight #kinfolk #wanderlust #abmlifeiscolorful
"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. @wncathedral , March 31, 1968 👑 “The Reconstruction of Saints” 2018 by @dustin_farnsworth  part of #disruptingcraft exhibition at the @renwickgallery - Dustin’s art often focuses on depictions of human suffering.
Rejoicing in the presence of trees, quiet neighborhood strolls, and the possibility of having more space to spread out. Patience is a virtue, one I’m still refining. 🌳 #tree #oak #optoutside #nature #flashesofdelight #chasinglight #explore #wanderlust #green #traveldeeper #folkgood #kinfolk