DiJaDi

I’m not on here nearly often enough.

Love is the answer to almost every question.

If you ask yourself what love looks like as a response to most questions, not only will you not lose your way, but you’ll prevail against hate, and help heal the world instead of divide it.

Love is true north. Don’t let your compass waver.

“He won’t bite” said the townspeople of the wolf outside.

“He won’t bite hard” they amended as his grin grew wide.

“He won’t eat you” they assured at the stemmed blood-tide.

“He won’t eat all of you” the remaining ones still cried.

“He won’t eat us” confidently screaming as they died.

I had a nightmare that I clicked a link in an email that gave a script control to start spamming all my contacts from my email address and it might actually be the second-worst nightmare I’ve ever had in my life.

No matter how dark the skies get,
the stars shine just as bright.

You’ll know when I have words again.
You’ll hear them as they pique.
You’ll see the volume rising then.
You’ll know when I can speak.

You’ll know when I have words again.
You’ll hear them loud and clear.
You’ll see the enunciation.
You’ll know the syntax here.

You’ll know when I have words again.
You’ll hear them in my voice.
You’ll see the end to silence.
You’ll know it was a choice.

At the end of the day, in the midst of the darkest night, there’s a hope that a brighter tomorrow awaits.

It just might take awhile to get there.

Meanwhile, we can try to be our own lights; to provide comfort, guidance, hope, love, & strength to those around us. And to never surrender to darkness.

Don’t ever let fear take control.

Compassion should never be conditional.

The year ahead will have challenges. It will contain adversity. It will bring sorrow and pain.

That’s because life does all these things.

It will also have beauty, joy, hope, adventure, peace, novelty, and love.

You decide which is stronger.
By choosing which to focus on.

Love is why.

It’s more than an emotion. It’s an action. It’s a thing. Intangible yet able to be seen & felt. Oft forsaken, forgotten, but always able to be redeemed and remembered.

Without love, there is no life.

Without life, there is nothing and no one to love.

Love is why.

What is, matters.

Because we can’t effect change, we can’t get from where we are to where we want to be, if we refuse to acknowledge reality.

What can be, can only follow what is, which only exists because of what has been.

Time is a river that flows in one direction.

I’m too tired to fly
Said the bird to the sky
I would if I could
But I don’t have the time

My thoughts are threads in a ball of yarn. Entangled, overlapping, untraceably inscrutable and impossibly intricately raveled. To extricate a single thread in its entirety, therefore, demands the prerequisite of complete disassembly, a feat beyond my capacity. I imagine the world works similarly.

Learn from the past.
Focus on the present.
Get ready for the future.

Decide what you’re going to do before you try to do it, and you’re going to be way more successful at doing whatever you decided to do.

I think survival games stress me out because surviving life is enough work on its own.

When the world was a lot blurrier, things seemed a lot simpler; less visible details to worry us. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t more complex than we thought at the time, or that the details weren’t there; just that we were blind to them.

We have to build the world that we want to see. Brick by brick.

I don’t have words. Just feelings.

A chaotic and tumultuous whirlwind inside, the strength of which I might not survive, the lack of strength being what I try to hide, it taking a whirlwind to make me feel alive.

I don’t have words.

Just feelings.

Why do I suddenly want to try this?