Matt Moberg
‘Don’t dress avoidance up as holiness… Peace is what is the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted. Unity that refuses to name violence is just loyalty to the ones holding the weapons.”
John O'Donohue
“While we are here in the world
where is it we are absent from?”
Noel Dermot O'Donoghue
“The contemplatives or the mystics are people who withdraw
from the world to confront the monster in its lair.”
John O'Donohue
“Most of us are moving through such as undergrowth of excess
that we cannot sense the shape of ourselves anymore.”
The Best in Puppetry
The Best in Puppetry
The Best in Puppetry
Author Nancy Thayer on the Meaning of Life
Leah Song 💚🇮🇪 🪕☘️
Animals
Earth Below Heaven Above
Earth below, heaven above
Show me the certain path to love
Show me the beauty deep inside
Where balanced and harmonious I can reside
Show me the way to the energy pure
Instead of passage to the ways things were.
Love restores my mind when weak
It leads me to this path I seek
It flags me down in times of doubt
Bringing a blessed turnabout
It seeks out peace when my mind’s a mess
Or I am feeling I’m somehow less.
Earth below, heaven above
Your grace it flies on the wings of doves
Brushing my soul, light strokes of faith
Gently dispelling harsh words of hate
Earth below, heaven above
I stand grateful for this path of love.
Tricia Schwaba, 2019
Art Source: Saatchi Art
Sonny & Cher 🩶 Country Couture
James Joyce
Elliott, Doolin, Me & The Daizies
Elliott’s Art can be seen at
Artbeat Gallery
56 Haywood St.
Asheville 💚💛🩵
https://artbeatlive.com/
Ursula K LeGuin
A Series of Perspectives on Aging (Worthy-Repost)
Source: Maria Popova, The Marginalian
photo source: Anon
Ursula K Leguin, American Author
Nick Cave, Australian Singer Songwriter & Musician
Joan Didion, American Writer & Journalist
Henry Miller, American Novelist & Short Story Writer
Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American Writer & Poet
Simone de Beauvoir, French Philosopher & Writer
Grace Paley, America Author
On This Planet
I fear for the angels amongst us
Myself included
It would appear the demons have won
Gobbling up the land
Stealing many of the riches
Humanity will no longer
In its current form
Survive
It cannot
The Earth in her wisdom
In her strength
In her beauty will always win
The suffering
The breakdown
The death that this propagated evil leaves in its wake
Is painful to witness for those of us who know
Love and compassion
And caring for each other
IS THE ONLY WAY
To stay afloat
On their tumultuous sea of greed
There are no riches that can be hoarded
Without the consequences of
Breakdown and destruction
I take these fleeting moments I have left
Here on my version of this Earth
And I look back
Now understanding that we all had choices
For it to be a heaven or a hell
The many small-minded, ego-driven, sad little men
Who think they are winners have chosen hell
They’ve done nothing but
Destruct, ruin, ravage
Every last thing that holds beauty
So little they can comprehend
Their stupidity leading the way
They haven’t won at all
They have lost
The power of the Universe wins
The Earth is goodness and compassion
And only the good and compassion lives on
The angels thrive and flourish
Dancing in the harmonious flow of the Cosmos
While the demons consume each other
Ultimately turning to dust
Thank the Goddesses and the Gods alike.
Tricia Schwaba August 2, 2026
