The ones you long to know.

Soulmates aren't the people 

that make you the happiest, no.

They're instead the ones

who make you feel the most,

burning like a star on the edge of the world

as one night ends and another begins.

Radiation and reactions.

Scientific poetry,

poetic science.

Around and around in an endless circle.

They're pure elation, 

danger, and ecstasy.

They're the ones

that can destroy you.

They're the only ones

you long to know.

The burn of lightning.

Remember to only remain on flights with storms you can tolerate swallowing. The burn of lighting is merely fiery fuel when flying toward skies that suit you.

illustration source: Christian Schloe

Content to be consumed.

Let's not travel to tick things off lists
or collect half hearted semi treasures
to be placed in dusty drawers in empty rooms. 
Rather, we'll travel to find grounds and rooftops
and tiny hidden parks, 
where we'll sit and dismiss the passing time,
spun in the city's web 'til we've surrendered,
content to be spent and consumed.
I need to feel a place while I'm in it.

photo by Alicia Savage photography

Real connections live forever.

When connections are real, they simply never die. They can be buried, or ignored or walked away from, but never broken. If you've deeply resonated with another person or place, the connection remains despite any distance, time, situation, lack of presence, or circumstance. If you're doubtful then just try it- go and revisit a person or place and see if there's any sense at all of the space between now and then.

If it was truly real, you'll be instantly swept back into the moment it was before it left- during the same year and place with the same wonder and hope, comfort and heartbeat. Real connections live on forever.

When you're certain.

I often think of the energy behind Paulo Coelho's words while gathering passion and certainty over a longterm plan:

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it."

Ask yourself if you're certain- do you really want it? When you're certain, desire will transform you into a racehorse, explosive at the gate. When you're certain, details and obstacles will noticeably shrink, and crumble away. Excuses will die, ecstatic determination will strengthen your drive, and the sheer power of intent will rattle your lands and skies. Are you truly certain? Then call it out. Claim it as yours. Do what you need to do each and every day, to let it know you're ready, you can see it, and that you're on your way. Now is the time. Your dream patiently awaits.

Suspended in a moment.

Somewhere close yet far enough,

there's a place where time cannot reach.

A place suspended in a moment,

where the earth stops turning

and where you know I'll be waiting.

I'll be the wings

that keep your heart in the clouds

and you'll be the anchor 

that keeps my feet on the ground.

(photo by me)

Step off the treadmill.

Perfectionism is merely an endless treadmill of self-destruction that'll only build momentum until you're running at unsustainable speeds. Rather than remaining a slave to the illusions you perceive as safe, step off the treadmill and live as the piece of art you are: messy, colorful, fluid, and adoptable to change, mistakes, shifts, surprises, pain, and of 

course, immeasurable moments of beauty.

It is there, outside the enclosed grey walls of perfect self-imprisonment that you shall 

touch the meaning of freedom.

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