Although, more sleep would be pretty good.......

 No, we don’t need more sleep. It’s our souls that are tired, not our bodies. We need nature. We need magic. We need adventure. We need freedom. We need truth. We need stillness. We don’t need more sleep, we need to wake up and live.

-Brooke Hampton

Wake up................................................!

 

  thanks Rob

the shadowed wonder and wildness.........

       The hyper-rational objectivity behind a great deal of contemporary techno-science could only have arisen in a civilization steeped in a dogmatic and other-worldly monotheism, for it is largely a continuation of the very same detached and derogatory relation to sensuous nature.  If in an earlier era we spoke of the earthly world as fallen, sinful, and demonic, we now speak of it as mostly inert, mechanical, and determinate.  In both instances nature is stripped of its generosity and prodigious creativity.  Similarly, the utopian technological dreaming that would have us bioengineer our way into a new and "more perfected" nature (or would have us download human consciousness into a "better hardware"), like the new-age wish to spiritually transcend the "physical plane" entirely, seems calculated to help us hide from the shadowed wonder and wildness of earthly existence.

-David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

Not terrible music to wake up to.............

The Beatles..........................................................Number One Hits

for no reason at all.....................

You want to live with a spring in your step, a smile on your face.  Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself?  Make feeling good your expectation.  You don't have to have a reason to feel good—you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!

- Anthony Robbins,  Awaken The Giant Within

Wanting to............................

In America, many men in the groups I have facilitated have told me that they feel like they are sleepwalking through their lives.  Going through the same routines, falling asleep into social media or the news.  They are experiencing a kind of disengagement that makes them feel older than they are.  I suspect that part of being a man is that you will of course fall asleep in your own life.  It will happen.  Knowing this seems important to me.
     The journey out of that will not begin with the call but the desire to hear the call.  The desire itself has an energy.  Part of waking yourself, it seems to me, is made by paying attention.  Most of us are looking but not seeing.  The same men who had told me about falling asleep in their lives reported amazing things when they turned their attention back on and started to tune in and listen for a path back to life.  The ancients call this essential knowledge.
     As trackers our part is to be awake.  Our part is to listen.  We want to hear the call.
     Tracking begins with wanting to track.

-Boyd Varty,  The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life

In the background........................

Enya..........................................................A Day Without Rain