One battle,
one mind;
prisoners of mankind.
When freedom is a choice we can exercise our rights.
When it’s taken away we are at the mercy of others with no free will.
But what if the prisoner is you? The voices in your head that turn on you like a battleship ready for combat but there are no lions or missals at your door, only those you fabricate in your mind?
What if the sun is beaming but you still feel cold inside or the Arctic ice is impenetrable and you feel hot?
We have found solace in misery, warmth in cold, coolness in heat, confusion out of protection in daily living by absorbing the bombardment of the catastrophic news.
Just for today feel the earth under your feet,
the birds song to greet you, the sun on your back or the chill in your bones.
Just for today cast all worries to the wind. Just be.
Let your soul feel the disheartening of our human race and cry the tears till there are no more.
Let go of needing to know how things will turn out for the world and yourself. Do the best you can,
with what you have to work with.
Be in the NOW!
Sorrow, anxiety, worry, retreat are not the problem.
You are.
Just be.
Each of us are light beams of stars, cradle them, nurture them,
allow others to be where they are.
Take care of your soul with a warm embrace, hug a tree, walk in nature, take a bath and let the beast of your mind out to free you of needing to be ok with what’s not ok.
Just be!
That is enough!
The insanity is actually an illusion.
Do you know this?
Maybe there in lies the problem.
This moment is all we have.
Our tears are bigger than tsunami.
We are a drop in the ocean, a blade in the meadow.
Together we hold each other in body and spirit taking one day at a time.
Don’t miss the moment, trying to change what can’t be changed or pretend it isn’t happening. Do what you can.
Emerge when you’re ready to face the day, shield in hand and carry on.
Put down your judgements and let the words of truth envelope you.
Don’t let hate be your guide.
You have always been enough and you mustn’t merge with the enemy
or become one, only the one that lives inside to set you free!
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A beautiful reminder to all of us, especially as the busy holiday season approaches, Cindy. Happy Thanksgiving.
Thank you so very much Mary! For sure, hold on to our hats. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!❣️
WOW!!!! Amazing writing ! Beautifully expressed, Cindy! I absolutely love this message of staying in the present and soul searching. Brilliant, my friend.💕
I’m so elated you enjoyed it dear Grace. Thank you so very much. I’m honored, coming from you my friend❣️
I sure did. Truly my pleasure 💕
A powerful and important message from a heavy heart. Well done … have a good Thanksgiving week
Very much appreciated Frank. Yes indeed which is why we love to walk the beach. Cheers to that. I will and you do the same, my friend💕
Beautiful photo ^^;
Thanks so much Yolanda💕
In this case we think alike, Cindy, thank you! An excellent poem!
Joanna
Amen to that and lots of love to you today💕
So incredibly powerful 💕
Thank you so much Pooja💕
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Really nice view, well done
Thanks so very much💕
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An important message. In today’s world we cannot let hate be our guide. Well said. Thank you.
Thank you so very much Edward. That is for darn sure💕
Oh, Cindy, thank you! 💙🙏🏻 Your poem is power, inspiring, and beautiful!
I’m so delighted you found it so Filipa. Hugs and love💙💕
Hugs and love to you too, Cindy. 💞
Sounds like good advice.
birds of a feather. I’m glad you agree Marsha! 💕
True that! I think your feathers are thicker and deeper than mine. I’m a sunbird.
“Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me
Let There Be Peace on Earth
The peace that was meant to be”
Hehe Dear Cindy Lots of Folks Believe
The Lyrics of that Song Are By ‘Vince Gill’ Yet
They Are Not They are By a Couple of Song
Writers From the 50’s And After That is Where
The Lyrics Divide
As They Only Speak
of One Name for God
Yes God And Only Father
And Brothers Oh Dear Lord What About ALL the Rest
(A Large World The Rest Beyond Human Comprehension)
Like the Notion that Many Folks Believe the Bible was
Originally Written in English Yet it Surely Wasn’t the
Language the Illiterate
Jesus Fellow Spoke in
Aramaic True Instead
Decades Later After that
Crucifixion Texted by Innumerable
Roman Greek Writing Ghost Authors
And Innumerable Scribes With Copy
Mistakes and Intentional Changes too
ACRoSS The Centuries until a Rudimentary
Printing Press Came Then in the 1400’s
Oh Dear Lord ‘Gutenberg’ That Term
‘They’ Use With That ‘Nasty Block
Editor’ For Word Press too Hehe
Houston We Have a Problem too
Many Folks Wanna Return to the 50’s
Still When Humans Were So Much Less
Free With Civil Rights in the United States
And Even More (Less) Than that A Return
To An Iron And Bronze Age before A ‘Prince
of Peace’
Even Came
to Story Book Life…
Other than that For Those Of Us
So Very Sensitive to Affective Empathy
And All the Other Feelings and Senses of Life
The Danger Is We Don’t Learn/Do Compassion And How
to Love CARinG Without Erasing all Our Sacred Energies
Of LoVE iN Peace With
Too Much Empathy
That Ends Up as
Harmful
With Stress Hormones
Tearing Us Down Slowly
Draining All the LoVE iN Peace
Away Left Cold Inside and Apathetic too
The United States Faces the Greatest Challenge
Yet in the 2024 Election The World Is a Big Place
If We Don’t Keep Our Energies For Action Yes Voting
to Keep Our Representative Democracy True YucK
If Apathy Replaces the Get Out and Vote Both
Worn Out and Upset That Things
Aren’t Going Our Ways in
First World Problem Terms
Our Representative Democracy
May Die and Likely be Replaced
By Blood Running on Our Soils of Soul Next
Whether Metaphor
or Just Reality
of No
Longer Free
What So Many
Folks Do Take For Granted…
That’s Quite a FRedwood yet
This Is No Longer A Place to Whimper
In
Only
Twitter Breaths hehe…
Or As ‘They’ Sing The ‘Sound
of Silence’ Bowing Down to
An ‘Orange Neon God’ the
Singer ‘Disturbed’ Relates
With a Great ‘Cover’ of That too..:)
You raise important issues Dear Fred. Things are so out of balance but we must do our best!!! Thanks 💕
Yes Dear Cindy
LoVE iN Peace
For ALL With
Most Respect
Least Harm Yes
Giving Sharing
Caring Healing
Naked Enough
Whole Complete
Really
Does
Start
With
me You
Us Them
We
Returning
To i With SMiles☺️❤️🙏
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🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏
Defense mechanisms are mischievous things.
Shakespeare’s assistant, Charles Hamlet, was fortunate to run out of ink before finishing “To be or not to be.” He was given the day off to think about “To be”. The next day he suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. But he did get to rest in 1603 until 1776 when there was some kind of fuss over at the colonies. Before then he got to drink a lot of tea.
This is worthy of a blog post Doug, I love it and you are so right. i hope that tea was one helluva cuppa! Thanks a lot Doug❣️
Excellent post, Cindy. I like just being.
Thank you so mu Tim/. Thats the wqy to be❣️
Brilliant Cindy, so full of passion; so filled with truth.
I’m so grateful you think so Francis. Thank you so very much my friend. 💕
You’re very welcome Cindy!
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Well done Cindy! ❤️
Thank you so very much💕
My pleasure.
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We need a break mentally, emotionally, and physically. Beautiful words, Cindy!
That’s so true Miriam. We need a reprieve from all of it is right. Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it.. xo 💕
Thanks for this wonderful inspiration and motivation, Cindy! Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving! ❤️
You’re welcome and thank you so much Lauren! So much appreciated and same to you ll💕. Hugs and love💕
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Wonderful guidance. Thank you Cindy. You read my mind. Needed this today.
I’m happy to hear that Brian! Thanks so much for letting me know 💕💗💕
Thank you for the nurturing and grounding message, Cindy. 🙏🏻💗✨ “Let go of needing to know how” is empowering. I am working on that one. 😁
You’re so very welcome Michele and thank you for yours, always. I think it’s one of those that continues to be a work in progress. 💕💗😋
Truth! ✨💗
Thank you for this message of realism and hope, Cindy. There is so much negativity in the world and it can be difficult to stay grounded. Being in nature is probably one of the best things to help with the challenges. You offer many ways to stay grounded in the now…
You’re welcome Steve and thank you so much for your positive comment and being a bright force in our community. I’m most grateful❣️
Aww, that’s so kind of you to say, Cindy! I’m grateful to have connected with you in our community. 🙏🏼
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Oh girlfriend, love this:
“This moment is all we have.
Our tears are bigger than tsunami.
We are a drop in the ocean, a blade in the meadow.”
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Yes, yes, yes, just for today, just be. 🌞 I am, and so are you dawwwwlinkkkkk!!! 🥰🙆🏻♀️😘
Oh thanks Kymmmmdawwwwwlink. I’m most grateful for your ongoing support which means so much to me. Its all we can do and that is what we do so well in spite of the naysayer’s around us. i be chillen… xo 💕💗💞
Oh no, not the “I be chillen”… 🤣😜😂 Girl, see why you are soooooo loved? You live in the moment, and that is all we can do! Thanks for setting such a good example. And you know it is always my pleasure to show support as you give encouragement my Energizer G’mama! Hugs and smooches! 😘💖🤗
Did I mention I
A bit under the weather but I can’t control that, darn it. Slowly digging out and making the best of it!! So fun to have the kids home-;)
😎💕😻hugs and love to you too!!!
Well girlfriend, you know, you do not need another bout with Covid-19 so PLEASE take care of yourself. I know you are so excited to have your gang at home. Enjoy this very special time dawwwlinkkkkk! Hugs and smooches to all of the Georgakas tribe! Enjoy your Thanksgiving! 🥰🦃😍💖😘
A strong call to walk in our humanness and respect for peace as the right of every person. Well.penned, my friend.
Amen to that Suzeetw❣️. I’m really elated to kmow you enjoyed it💕 Thank you so much❣️
Always a pleasure Cindy.. Happy Tuesday!!
Thanks and We’d now! 💕💕💕
Cindy, a heartfelt and deeply inspiring message! What a beautiful poem! <3 Love this, Cindy!
Thanks truly Cheryl. I’m so haay to know you enjoyed it!!!💕
A very beautiful poem Cindy. A guide to mindfulness and peaceful meditation. Thanks
I’m so happy ypu fpond it so, Sadje! Thank you so much!💕❣️
You’re most welcome my friend
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Absolute stunner for me, very powerful words and so inspiring. Thanks, Cindy.
I’m so grateful for you words of appreciation dear J M💕. Thank you!❣️
Wonderful and necessary reminder.
My contribution: Abide!
Thanks, Cindy 🤗
Thank you very much Selma❣️❣️
Just for today, and today is every day! So nicely told in your heartwarming and inspiring lines! I totally agree with you, when you say that problem is you. Let’s do what we can, and forget the rest, this is my principle from my college days. This poem is very close to my heart. The way you have written in free flow shows that these warm feelings have come straight from your heart. Well done, Cindy! My sincere regards 🙏💐💖
Your words mean so much to me KK and I’m so glad you resonated with them. I love that you were ao wise at a young age! Your reflections are wonderful memories! It’s so meaningful to be appreciated for my free verse from the heart words that find their way to the page!💕❣️💗Thank you so very much!💕❣️💗
It’s truly my pleasure, Cindy! Always welcome 🙏💐💖
Thanks again always and forever!💕
What a beautiful and upbeat post, Cindy! Your message is loud and clear that we must live each day to the fullest. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. 💕
Thanks Eugi! I’m so glad you liked.. I’m with you there. Thanks for the wonderful wishes and to you!!!!❣️💗❣️
My pleasure, Cindy!
Cindy, nicely done. Great counsel for all. Just be. That is a nice meditative thought. Keith
Hi Keith! Thanks so much! It could make your head spin. Much appreciated and good to see you always❣️
As they say, we are the ones who hold ourselves back.
You’ve got that right Mary❣️💕
Beautiful and impassioned. Stirring and inspiring 🖤♥️💯🙏🏾
Thank you so much Jude! Happy to hear from you always! 💕🙏
A privilege to visit 🙏🏾
Very well written!! Sometimes all you need is just to be there …❤️
Thank you so much and welcome 🙏
Just be.. it’s a great message. Thank you, Cindy.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thanks so much Resa! Glad you liked this one. You’re welcome and thank you!!!!❣️
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Much needed message! Love it
Thank you so much Belladonna! 🥰
You’re welcome!
A beautiful poem about self Love
about hope
and about light!!
Wonderful CiGe
Loved it
Thank you so much D! Thank you for reading and your wonderful comment!!🥰
We must be grateful for what we have
Absolutely! I’m grateful for you💕
One day at a time is all we have. You are right we must live in the moment and make the most of it.
Thanks Dwight! It’s what we’ve got-:)💕
You are welcome!
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Nice 👌
Thank you Satyam!💕
It may be way too cold to feel the earth under my feet today (snow is predicted), but I did hear the birds sing at dawn. 🙂 Thank you for these wonderful reminders.
Hi LuAnne, numbness does have its own message alright. Lovely to wake to the sound of the birds! You’re welcome and thank you for checking in!
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Beautiful and true words, Cindy.
How swiftly we overlook simply being,
Lost in planning, craving, doing,
As if the future could ever be grasped.
Thanks so much for your comment and astute wisdom, Jake!
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Cindy, I enjoyed the journey. When a day arrives, filled with peace, may we show gratitude.
Thank you Warren! I whole heartedly agree-:)
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Beautiful 😍😍
Thank you!
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This is so beautiful and such an important message
Thank you so very much❣️