Stand still.
The trees ahead and bushes beside you are not lost.
Wherever you are is called Here.
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes.
Listen.
It answers.
I have made this place around you,
And if you leave it
You may come back again
Saying…
“Here.”
No two trees are the same to raven
No two branches are the same to wren.
If what a tree or branch
Does is lost on you,
Then you are surely lost.
Stand still.
The forest knows where you are.
You must let it find you.
~David Wagner
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Mark B: I Found My Man!
Mark B: I Found My Man!
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Shirley I love your pages and some of the pictures and words you post bring me to tears. I wish I knew more about you. Where does your inspiration come from?
Thank you so much! It means a lot to me to know that stuff I post actually reaches out to people. Sometimes I feel like I’m talking to a vacant room… and this kind comment came to me on a day when I really needed some encouragement. So thank you again!
My inspiration?
Well, I read a lot. I love to watch movies and shows that make me think. And I have a very active mind. I think this has always been true for me.
Before I was sent away to boarding school, I pretty much lived on my imagination because I literally had no other children my age to interact with.
Boarding school was… well.. sometimes I talk about it here. Anyway, there, I escaped into books. Read every book in the library by the time I was in 6th grade. I even read the dictionary and the encyclopedias… desperate for a way to escape my now moments.
I was the square peg, the misfit, the rebel, the angry kid and again, mostly on my own…
I question everything. I like to look at things from as many perspectives as I can manage. I am comfortable with the idea that I could be wrong and something outrageous might be right… and then I question that as well…
Geez…
Long answer… Anyway…
Thanks for asking!
You are deeply appreciated!