currently listening to: beds are burning by midnight oil

peace: it does not mean to be in a place where
there is no noise, trouble, or hard work.
it means to be in the midst of those things
and still be calm in your heart.

our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again;

we had longer ways to go.

but no matter, the road is life.

- kerouac

when we get out of the glass bottle of our ego

and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality

and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright.

but thing will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves.

cool, unlying life will rush in.

spain in one week.

i will never be like this.

adventure is a path, real adventure-

self-determined, self-motivated, often risky-

forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

the world the way it is, not the way you imagine it.

your body will collide with the earth

and you will bear witness.

in this way you will be compelled

to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - 

and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both.

this will change you.

nothing will every again be black and white.