Blessing

Ghost Ranch 8 (2013, 7.24), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

May the stars light your way

and may you find the interior road.

Forward!

Traditional Irish Farewell

Healing Stones

Healing Stones, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

If you truly hold a stone,

you can feel the mountain it came from.

Mark Nepo, 

The Book of Awakening

Wisdom

Pebbles, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Wisdom is slippery.
It comes in many forms and guises.
Sometimes it is intermingled with a certain amount of unwisdom.

Henry Alford,
How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People

Play

Stones and Wood, Five Oaks 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

All life should be lived as play.

Plato

Ultimate freedom

RIC_2279, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

When you are depraved of all freedom … you still have the most important freedom of all, which no one can take away from you: that is the freedom to choose what kind of person you want to be.
                                                                            
Ingrid Betancourt, Even Silence Has An End: My Six years of Captivity in the Columbian Jungle