Can't catch me now...

To rock the night away...

These are things I can't change. Not one of them. Can't fix, can't heal, can't put the broken pieces back together. But what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for. Not the battle lines, keeping people in and out. Not the "pro" and "anti" stances, but the presence, the listening, the praying with and for the days when it all falls apart, when life shatters in our hands. I am here. For you. Whenever you'll need.

With the wilt of a rose...

His blood flow, the life-force, the electricity, they're all in there. But what is he going to do with them? This is the only life he's got, so it’s time to move beyond his conditioning. It's time to move beyond his fear or whatever else is holding him back from living fully because that's the way nature meant him to be. His fears are a consequence of a conditioned mind, and they are nothing but a burden. One he must let go.

Here's the thing; when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. And I hate that. There's literally nothing there, waiting to be stumbled upon. It gives false hope, and a sense that life is something that happens, not something that is carefully made. We have to create our own love, our own meaning, generate our own motivation. Then hopefully that leads us somewhere we truly want to be. Towards something we are really happy to have. To someone we'd never want to let go.