when you stop seeing the world around you as you are told you should see it and start seeing and knowing it in your body, tasting, touching, hearing and smelling it as it is, you have a deeper knowledge of the world, and yourself. daily i dig deep into the material of living where the bright intensity of beauty shines against the darkest tragedies. but i dig in anyway, trying to love open-hearted against a million tragedies, because life is precious in its constant flutter to escape us and *in* is where reality awaits our humble exploration. within the cycle of digging and rest are the stories...