and the sun soon behind the mountain ~

earthly ~

cosmic day in the kootenays ~

ajai alai ~

reflection ~

pilgrimage ~

surrender ~

garden of earthly delights ~

mushrooms ~

cascade ~

cedar passage ~

until somebody softens ~

If you look back at history or you look at any place in the world where religious groups or ethnic groups or racial groups or political groups are killing each other, or families have been feuding for years and years, you can see—because you’re not particularly invested in that particular argument—that there will never be peace until somebody softens what is rigid in their heart.

~ Pema Chodron from Practicing Peace in Times of War