BEING TRUTH IN GRACED SILENCE IS FREEDOM Sunrise/Afternoon June 4, 2017

All photos today taken with "auto" camera setting...NO "vivid" enhancements...
...the colors were Breath Pausing at sunrise!!

​TALKING TRUTH CAN RESULT IN MURDER
BEING TRUTH IN GRACED SILENCE IS FREEDOM
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4:02 AM-6/4/17
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“In Haiti good and evil are one,,,
and we never confuse the two.”
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“In Haiti nothing is ever as it appears to be.”
Serpent and the Rainbow
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(first read just prior to H.I. arrival 1988 for fulltime
a Friend INSISTED I read this book) 

On Good and Evil
 Kahlil Gibran
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts
​ it drinks even of dead waters.

You are good when you are one with yourself.
Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil.
For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.
And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles
​ yet sink not to the bottom.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself.
For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth
and sucks at her breast.
Surely the fruit cannot say to the root,
"Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance."
For to the fruit giving is a need,
​ as receiving is a need to the root.

You are good when you are fully awake in your speech,
Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose.
And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
Even those who limp go not backward.
But you who are strong and swift,
see that you do not limp before the lame,
​ deeming it kindness.

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good,
You are only loitering and sluggard.
Pity that the stags cannot teach swiftness to the turtles.



AFTERNOON

In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness:
and that longing is in all of you.
But in some of you that longing is a torrent rushing with might to the sea,
carrying the secrets of the hillsides and the songs of the forest.
And in others it is a flat stream that loses itself
in angles and bends
​and lingers before it reaches the shore.

But let not him who longs much say to him who longs little,
"Wherefore are you slow and halting?"
For the truly good ask not the naked,
"Where is your garment?"
nor the houseless,
"What has befallen your house?"
K. Gibran
The Prophet
http://www.katsandogz.com/ongood.html

"His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life
else it could not have been so universal and so potent,
but the majesty and beauty of the language
with which he clothed it were all his own." 
-- Claude Bragdon

Regarding Kahlil Gibran
http://www.katsandogz.com/gibran.html

WHAT NEWNESS CAN WE DISCOVER WITHIN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES...
​Miriam Kerrigan
​ (Harmony)