This era of social media and "news" channels vying for our attention has created an amplification of illusion. We no longer even live in a world of “seeing is believing”.

But we can bypass the house of mirrors of the media… of the news… of the headlines that distort the world and shoulder in trying to capture our attention with shock and reaction that fans the flames of fear and tension.

We don’t have to participate. 

It helps when we recognize that it’s a circus… and it's not even the lovely Cirque du Soleil. Most importantly, it’s a distraction from what we’re really here to do. It’s safe to assume that what we’re here to do is not a part of that smoke and mirrors realm. 

Better to tune into family, friends, neighbors and positive communities in person, (or through social) than news and shock media. 

Our dogs are on a hair trigger to jump up and bark and charge outside at the least little sound (or imagined sound). Most of the time it’s nothing, or just a squirrel or passing car. Yet they charge out and bark, creating a ruckus. 🐶

But we don’t have to live on a hair trigger ready to react. 

We can let our angel take charge of our animal and let the lower acquiesce to the higher impulses. 😇

Peace lives there.

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; 

it is easy in solitude to live after our own; 

but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd 

keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

~The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wishing you a peaceful and meaningful day.

The day is the way.

☀️🌙 ⭐️

~ LeAura

Transformation through creation.

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