Audio Version (music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi) The road before And behind Is weathered with seasons Storms and Flash floods Sprinkled with silence A pregnant mist…
Tag: courage
What do you want to be when you grow up? It’s a fairly common phrase in Western culture, aimed primarily at children, particularly in public education settings. I believe this notion is a disease of our time, a psychological sliver that distracts the mind and makes a slave of the spirit.
In life, we must check in with our hearts, listen to our inner compass, and stay open to adjusting our course as we move with purpose and anticipation toward what calls us, even when the road ahead is unknown.
If we give in to the suffering, the energy will sweep us, as it always does, into the spiral — down and out of our presence, out of our now, out into the sea.