it's a fine, fine, sunshiny day.
i didn't get my mind together with all the pictures from yesterday so i don't have much to blog about. i got too much. 
when you think about trump you think about hate and destruction but texting last night i thought how in the chaos of this hateful time, this whirlwind conflagration of capitalism, i feel returned to my roots, i feel a sustaining peace, and luckily, i feel love. and gay as it may sound, i do honestly feel that love and peace, what once may have been slogans like hope and change, that love and peace are reality, and the destroyers, trump and the legions of haters, are distinctly unreal. it is hate that is unsustainable. and the bipartisan system is an empty seduction. the lesser evil is now just evil. the war is on the people, the homeland is everywhere. we are crying real tears but we are crying tears of love. we know now that the system that once made our freedom possible at the expense of the planet and the animals, and the forests and the water and the air and the other people trying to live free, that the system of oppression we voted for with the lesser evil, that system of oppression is oppressing us. 
my friend was placing sanctuary signs along the walk. and i think about sanctuary, what it means, a refuge from the ruthlessness of the world, a controlled garden of man-made nature...we will all be asking what is sanctuary, where does it live. finally the heart is sanctuary, the heart that connects, the sanctuary beyond destruction. 
heartleap. love.