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When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their own ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand and hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.


--— Chogyam Trungpa

Aurora Borealis

Both lived in a small town in houses by the water
She’d follow a trail to the lake when she was running from her father
I used to meet her there and talk about our plans
Till it was dark outside, I’d walk her back and hold her hand
Now she had real reasons to run away, but I had nothing there but her to make me stay
I remember the day we finally got so bored, stole her dad’s old mustang from back in 64’
she headed north and just kept driving; saw the northern lights and we both started crying.