Nearing the end of another year

Early this morning.

Walking.  I am listening to a deeper way.  Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me.  Be still, they say.  Watch and listen.  You are the result of the love of thousands.

~ Linda Hogan

Christmas decorations

Mother Nature’s Christmas lights.

I know what I really want for Christmas.

I want my childhood back.

Nobody is going to give me that.  I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try.  I know it doesn’t make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway?  It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now.  In you and me.  Waiting behind the door of our hearts for something wonderful to happen.  A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.

~ Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

The dreamer

Feathers

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking.

~ Margaret Fuller

Merry Solstice

Sunrise this morning.

Solstice Sun, Shining Bright!
Shortest Day; Longest Night.
Solstice Wish of Hope & Cheer:
Peace on the Earth, throughout the Year!

~ Selena Fox

Dream beings

Giants in the sky.

All human beings are also dream beings.  Dreaming ties all mankind together.

~ Jack Kerouac

Holidays

The Festivus Flamingo

Frank:  Many Christmases ago, I went to buy a doll for my son.  I reach for the last one they had — but so did another man.  As I rained blows upon him, I realized there had to be another way!

Kramer:  What happened to the doll?

Frank:  It was destroyed.  But out of that, a new holiday was born.  A Festivus for the rest of us!

~ From the 166th episode of “Seinfeld”

The Dream

Lagoon reflection.

We are living in a dream.  We are asleep, even when we think we are awake.

~ Osho, Tarot in the Spirit of Zen

Evening journey.