"Xylocarpic Dream"

"Xylocarpic Dream" by Samantha Tolleson

All the wonderous
Beauteous individuals
Create lovely 
Days upon the
Earth.
Following 
God's 
Holy ghost.
Imbrued in only the name of --
Jesus, wills it. Fills the wonderful
Kaleidoscope of different
Lands and
Mountain chains.
Nettles among the heather, nasty beautiful stings,
Ocean currents controlled by La Luna's strings.
People…
Questioning the universe for a purpose. 
Ripping roars reach up to the 
Stratosphere's edge.
Tendrils of cobweb cling to 
Urban sanctuary, forbidden to consult the
Virgin, she who represents many.
Woken by the iron snake
Xylocarpic apple roots crumble over on
Yonder hilltops when one's own
Zen comes whilst strolling in thine garden.

Walden Review

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

2015- Leonard Nemoy died on my fucking birthday! I'm reading Walden: 

JUST PISS ON 2016! David Bowie, Alan Rickman, and now Carrie Fisher! Just go to hell 2016!

2018- My grandmother died; she was an Alzheimer's patient.

2019-Assigned reading for EH201 and the teacher didn't know what hit her. 

2020- Carona Virus & George Floyd Riots. It's finally time for me to permanently move this away from my currently reading list but I also can't tell you how many times I have read this or the dates that I finished this. I will just open to a passage and read for however long I need. 

This is one of my go-to books when I fall into a horrible fit of depression. Try it out, it might help you; however, everyone is different so you might need to keep looking if it doesn't work.

T.S. Eliot, Dante, and Ralph W. Emerson also are other go-to's for me. 

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”