Fear is born in a blink of an eye.
First it’s tiny just like a seed,
But still big enough to take your seat.
Then it grows and grows.
Grows as fast as the dawn breaks.
It’s so powerful
That you’ll be pinched by it,
Knocked down by it,
Mastered by it.

Fear will teach you how to lie.
Fear will take you under the ground
To show you The Big Fire.
But Fear will never bring you up
To show you success.

Fear isn’t your friend,
Fear is your enemy for now and ever.
So: “Be brave. Even if you aren’t act like one.
No one will ever notice the difference”, says an Unknown Genius.

~Yasaman Ayyoubi

“Hello Darling,

Today I find myself a long way from you and the children. I am at the State Prison in Reidsville which is about 230 miles from Atlanta. They picked me up from the DeKalb jail about 4 ’0 clock this morning. I know this whole experience is very difficult for you to adjust to, especially in your condition of pregnancy, but as I said to you yesterday this is the cross that we must bear for the freedom of our people.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Over 300 former residents of the Georgia State Prison in Reidsville lie below concrete crosses with black stenciled numbers.  Unlike Martin Luther King, who spent time here in October of 1960, these poor souls had no family to say goodbye, let alone write a letter to.

This is something I know I need to remember in the day to day being of healing.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could...

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.
~Friedrich Nietzche

parasympathetic & sympathetic nervous systems