There is so much Joy.
So many ways to Love and Be Loved.
We don’t have any real obligation to put up walls and hide, to hold back tears, or to pretend we are any certain version of ourselves that we aren’t really.
The most powerful restrictions on our Freedom are set up by ourselves.
Dye your hair,
climb trees,
paint (even if you’re no good),
go to the sea,
show the people you Love that you love them, and then tell them so,
travel- even if you can’t find anyone crazy enough to go with you, it’s time,
take off your shoes,
dance to feel yourself in motion,
go vegan, and share the food you make,
watch movies five to a bed,
fall asleep with the people you Love,
eat raisin bran on the porch when your mornings are mid-afternoons,
be Messy… stay Messy,
film people you enjoy when they’re loving life,
speak your poems out loud,
make music and play it at the top of your lungs,
wear your watch that hasn’t worked for three years,
let your friend give you that tattoo, even if they don’t finish it.
We’re all too beautiful not to share it.
We wither, we bloom, we wake up all the time and get to know ourselves all over again.
We aren’t here long enough to go through the motions and let life be monotonous.
Get coffee with people you care about,
Connect,
drink to be drunk and Glorious,
Love who you Love and be Bold about it,
own your pain and let it make you who you are.
Creativity is how we stay alive.
Communicate.
Don’t be afraid to meditate,
to confront the dragon,
to go through tragedy out loud,
to search inward for answers.
Host nights in to watch Blue Planet (or your favorite historical documentary…),
reach out to Nature,
sing, sing to yourself, sing to strangers, sing to plants,
Love, Love, Love with everything you are.
We can’t just sit here and watch people fade.
We need each other to pick us up in the chair we haven’t left to get us to do laundry,
to laugh about how ridiculous we are,
to give us a call every now and again,
to hold our hand when we do things that scare us.
To write us cartoons in all the exhaustion.
Gentleness with people who are suffering is so important.
Instead of asking what you can Do, ask them if they want tea.
All Kindness goes a long way.
For some people, life doesn’t just go on.
Mindfulness, Sensitivity, and a willingness to give people a break are all ways to look after someone.
It’s not always a temporary problem, so we need to be ready with unconditional love.
Help people when they need it, not just when they tell you they need it.
Tell people when you think of them.
Sometimes we just need to feel Loved.
And there you have it really.
Peace.
PLUTO BLOOMING 