STRETCHED... b/w high-ness & grounded-ness.

a place i am learning well.

we all take things, drink things, do things... to feel better.

to feel healthy, whole, better, more energized, more calm.

some are prescribed, some are socially acceptable.

some are legal, some are illegal.

some are potent, some are softer, slower... more subtle.

some are sensitive, some have side effects.

this can be coffee, it can be sugar, or chocolate... it can be herbal, medicinal plants from pachamama... in the form of tea from my garden, or magic mushrooms from a field.

they may be a pill to be taken a few times daily from my doctor, or a capsule i bought from a trusted friend at a electronic music festival in the forest.

it may be me going to the cafe by myself, or to the land with my ancestors....

we are all human beings in this earth. on this earth. with this earth...

with each other.


i give thanks for life i have been given...

i give thanks for the pleasing and healing possibilities passed onto us by all that is creation.

and i do not, and will not judge others for what they choose to do while navigating through this course of life.

we all make choices to enhance, support, heal, calm, play with our conscious and unconscious existences... and we need to recognize that we are ALL choosing differently, but choosing nonetheless.

...

sometimes i feel stretched... as i am high... yet still grounded.

i am high in my consciousness, yet rooted in the earth. and i feel lengthened... stretched above to below... below to above.

i reach up... high to the sky...

in balance, always.


I am in balance.

because my faith and my groundedness is in pachamama...

mother universe earth creation. and all her inclusive cycles... life and death.

STRETCHED in between.