Your Own True Nature
“Love is not something you want to feel, it is something you feel without wanting... ” Rumi 💚
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School Made Him Square And Brown Inside
He always wanted to explain things, but no-one cared. So he drew. Sometimes he would just draw and it wasn’t anything. He wanted to carve it in stone or write it in the sky. He would lie out on the grass and look up in the sky and it would only be the sky and the things inside him that needed saying. And it was after that that he drew the picture. It was a beautiful picture. He kept it under his pillow and would let no-one see it. And he would look at it every night and think about it. And when it was dark and his eyes were closed he could see it still. And it was all of him and he loved it. When he started school he brought it with him. Not to show anyone, but just to have it with him like a friend. It was funny about school. He sat in a square brown desk like all the other square brown desks and he thought it would be red. And his room was a square brown room, like all the other rooms. And it was tight and close. And stiff. He hated to hold the pencil and chalk, wit...
The Sea In You
'When I lie next to you under the moon, I do not know who I have become unless I move closer to you, obeying the give and take ... of the earth as it breathes the slender length of your body, so that in breathing with the tide that breathes in you, and moving with you as you come and go, and following you, half in light and half in dark, I feel the first firm edge of my floating palm touch and then trace the pale light of your shoulder to the faint, moon-lit shadow of your smooth cheek, and drawing my finger through the pearl water of your skin, I sense the breath on your lips touch and then warm the finest, furthest, most unknown edge of my sense of self, so that I come to you under the moon as if I had swum under the deepest arch of the ocean, to find you living where no one could possibly live, and to feel you breathing, where no one could possibly breathe, and I touch your skin as I would touch a pale whispering spirit of the tides that my arms try to...
Dr Suess Knows
Oh, the Places You'll Go at Burning Man! from Parker Howell on Vimeo . Freedom To Be don't worry, be happy smile like a dolphin with a new fish...
Almost Famous
“the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool” Brene Brown “Daring Greatly” Page 171
Amongst Evil Who Lied Dearest Mother
FAREWELL LETTER by David Whyte "She wrote me a letter after her death and I remember a kind of happy light falling on the envelope as I sat by the rose tree on her old bench at the back door, so surprised by its arrival wondering what she would say, looking up before I could open it and laughing to myself in silent expectation. Dear son, it is time for me to leave you. I am afraid that the words you are used to hearing are no longer mine to give, they are gone and mingled back in the world where it is no longer in my power to be their first original author not their last loving bearer. You can hear motherly words of affection now only from your own mouth and only when you speak them to those who stand motherless before you. As for me I must forsake adulthood and be bound gladly to a new childhood. You must understand this apprenticeship demands of me an elemental innocence from everything I ever held in my hands. I k...
Parents and Poly Vagal Power
As parents, our responsibility is to help children process through their experiences. This is not an easy task. It is easy to feel triggered by children’s big emotions, whether it be fear, anger, or sadness; especially when the expression of these feelings comes out as disruptive behaviors. Polyvagal theory empowers parents to navigate your child’s intense emotional states. Children may become defiant, refuse to go to sleep, start lying, or become aggressive with siblings or parents. As parents it is common to attempt to apply consequences or punish our children. However, this can devolve into a struggle of will, where parents don’t want to be the first to give in. While limit setting is necessary to keep our children and ourselves safe, it is essential that we help our children unwind their emotional dysregulation in the safety of a caring relationship. Polyvagal Theory provides a neurobiological framework for understanding the connection between the mind, body, and em...