I am a spiritual being experiencing a material existence.
At times I'm horrified
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Feeling spent and defeated
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and think this
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sometimes concurrently free and bound by this *Daveed Benito
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and remember this is within a day or two driving distance
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remembering the potentially fragile "pale blue dot" *Carl Sagen and NASA
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and that I am human (and thusly should do my best to be humane) but still feel small in effect when faced by this *Michael Shainblum
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and this
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and the first photo
but my god...this...
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Even dogs can haz cheeseburgers
so that get's me through one more day experiencing "The Dream of the Planet" *The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz