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This! What if we took all our frustration, anger, sadness and fear, and channeled it into brave kindness: "we're all in this together, like it or not [...] If we unite in brave kindness, in appreciation of democracy and liberty, of equal rights and environmental responsibility, in helping to continue to rebuild a strong, fair economy and in providing more affordable healthcare for all of us...we’ll get through this with flying colors as a nation and world united in improving the course of human history." ______________________________ #Repost @waylonlewis (@get_repost) ・・・ “Positivity, too often, isn’t positive. It’s avoidance. 🌞 It’s what I call 'Gated community spirituality'—you know, keep all the good stuff in, push all the scary stuff out. That’s ego, actually. Cling to good, push away bad. 🌝Tonglen, the Buddhist meditation practice of ‘sending and taking,’ helps us learn to do the opposite. To let go of what we’re attached to, and to bravely open to vulnerability. As Winston Churchill said, the best way out is through. 🌚 That’s why we occasionally focus on politics. Because we're all in this together, like it or not. We have to deal with it. We can’t run. If we unite in brave kindness, in appreciation of democracy and liberty, of equal rights and environmental responsibility, in helping to continue to rebuild a strong, fair economy and in providing more affordable healthcare for all of us...we’ll get through this with flying colors as a nation and world united in improving the course of human history. If we don’t, if we lapse into avoidance and fear and sharing ‘happy’ positivity quotes... 🌻 So. Let’s create peace, not suppress our free press. Let’s avoid nuclear war, not stick our heads in the sands of positivity. Let’s be truly positive, which is to breathe, to open up, to rest in our fundamentally aok human nature and to care for others, all others—especially those who could use a helping hand.” ~ @waylonlewis 🌈 Get our best, not just our most popular: elephantjournal.com/best And away we go...Ladakh-bound. To borrow a hashtag from @jhudes8 #gottagothrudelhitogettoladakh oh, jet lag. Why must you torture me so? 3:30am is no time to start the day. 5:48am is hardly better, but give me a kettle and Nescafe, and I'm a happy camper. Besides the day can only get better from here because I'm in...DELHI!! 🙌 ☕️ #jetlag #coffeetotherescue #cuppajoe #instajava #goodtothelastdrop #sotiredidntnoticeitwasupsidedown "If travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end." Pico Iyer _________________________________________ In less than 24 hours I’ll arrive in India. Ever since I received word that my waitlist status had turned into a legitimate spot on this trip, there has been a suspension of belief. I knew this day would arrive, but here I am staring at my pack and wondering what comes next. And while I know where I’m going, I don’t know what awaits me. Just thinking about what could be — my mind and body hum with twinges of electricity. _________________________________________ This is why I travel...it gets me outside of my head, out of the small corner of the Earth I inhabit to see people, places, animals and nature that inspire and fill me with a sense of awe for this beautiful planet. It always reminds me of Mark Twain's quote: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." Couldn't have said it better myself ('tis Twain, after all) _________________________________________ #andawaywego #travel #traveldiaries #seetheworld #exploretheworld #india #indiagram #yoga #pinchme 🍊 california dreamin' 🍊 ________________________________ It's been years since I've been back in Southern California, but what better reason to hit the OC than celebrating my pappy's 70th and Father's Day with a true original (DMGIII 🙌). Sleeping in my childhood bed underneath glow-in-the-dark stars, discovering my old journals (years: 94-99 😳), and laughing over IPAs while watching the sun set has been the sweetest homecoming. Matched only by grabbing a backyard orange for a fresh glass of OJ. Natch. ________________________________ #thatshowweroll #california #californiadreaming #getoutside follow your bliss. (oh, and remember to wipe the lens of your camera especially after applying sunscreen 😂)

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