Smilin Out Loud

02/16/2024

So act accordingly. 🖖🏾

02/16/2024

01/31/2024

Sunny, 53°?
🍄☕?
Yeah, I'm going outside.
The sky so brilliantly blue.
The sun was giving splendor to the greens and browns of the land.
Ahh the sun.
Photosynthesis at play.
I walked with a destination at hand.
Came upon a tree.
I touched it.
I hugged it.
If the branches were closer, it would have helped me back, I know it.
Onward.
Finally reached the destination I so longed for it.
The river.
Not to discount my journey though.
Miley said it best.
Ahh the river.
The way it sings.
The shades of Jade flowing over shades of Earth.
Jade, brown, tan, white.
They belong together.
Pocahontas sang it best.
"What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice."
Such a pulchritudinous thought to me.
"The rivers always changing, always flowing."
My analogy on life is such that of a river.
Keep going.
Keep flowing.
Create.
Erode.
Sustain.
I'm meditated.
Grounded.
Received & freely gave love to that around me.
"Time to go home now," I thought after quite some time.
Found a trail.
Or should I say it found me.
Discovered a section of the river I wouldn't have seen had a not answer the trail's call.
Gratitude.
Though in Gaia's season of death, the fauna was brilliantly green.
Gratitude.
I returned to the road.
The sky was speckled with marshmallows and cotton.
Blue, white, gray.
I laid down on the road.
Not a busy road so what the heck, I'll lay a while.
Wow.
How long has it been since I've done that?
Do people still do that?
Or is it just depressed vampires?
Iykyk.
I watched the clouds race each other.
Like the river, they're always changing, always flowing.
A dragon to a snake to just a line to a wisp.
And now a memory.
Home beckoned.
"Time to get up now," I said aloud after quite some time.
2nd journey resumed.
Just a girl and her walking stick back to whence she came.
Take time for yourself.
Make time for yourself.
Show gratitude.
Give love.
Hug a tree.
✌🏾 & 💙💚🤎🤍🩶💙

01/10/2024

I love my home.

01/09/2024

Happy Monday everyone!

11/08/2023

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