small stones. 24.

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"love means to learn to look at yourself

the way one looks at distant things."

~ czeslaw milosz

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today is another day. 

today will be a good day. 

i have looked long and hard at myself over the past few days. 

close up. 

at a distance. 

my eyes are brown with flecks of green. 

my skin is smooth and healthy. 

and inside me, deep down inside:

this alaska diamond is crystal clear and shining brightly.  

love and light prevail. 

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yesterday, i was driving home from the little local town where i procured some groceries for mister pencilfox.

snow had fallen, the sun was parting the clouds, and the world was white and bright again. 

closer to the mountains, closer to my hinterland home, 

snow was gently and sparsely falling, 

and the jeep and i were inside a snowglobe.

it was difficult to discern from where the snow was falling, 

because the sky was blue and the sun was beginning to shine.

i was quite sure at that point that i was inside a globe, caught in time and place.

on the radio, a segment from NPR, a science segment on the alaska peregrine falcon. 

if a human's eyes were in the same proportion to the body 

as are the peregrine falcon's eyes to its body, 

a human's eyes would be three inches in diameter. 

a predator must kill to eat, must kill to live. 

life is borrowed from other life. 

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life is good. 

....flying and swooping and enjoying this bright alpine hinterland day....

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