Dréa Drury

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"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book or you take a trip and you discover that you are not... living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom: absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken." - #anaisnin See more

A potent film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPT1R9HgjAI

For those of you who listen to Trees of Eternity, you will remember Aleah, who passed away in 2016. She was a kindred spirit, fellow musician, and a huge suppor...t to me when I first started Anilah. Hallatar is the new release from her partner Juha Raivio, who has written a beautiful album based on her unpublished lyrics and poems. "I think as human beings we by nature carry both light and darkness within us, but perhaps the difference between myself and some authors in this genre is that I don’t see this pain, suffering and darkness as something to revel in, worship, or aim for in itself. I see it more as a passage, a part of ourselves that we must all face, embrace, integrate and pass through in order to reach our full potential as individuals." -Aleah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-661IWr5QQ

"The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here." - D.Whyte... www.liveyourownritual.com