In your light
I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,
but sometimes I do, and that sight
becomes this art.
please donate to the family of rory young
My friend and hero
Rory Young was killed on 26 April 2021
in an ambush while leading a wildlife protection
patrol in Arly National Park, Burkina Faso.
Rory was a wildlife expert,
professional guide —
— and for many years
an anti-poaching ranger training
other rangers and leading
patrols across Africa.
A man of colossal ability,
wit, integrity, and drive, Rory Young
risked his life daily in defending the creatures he
revered. In the years since terrorists have turned to
poaching as a source of operating revenue, he engaged
in regular gun battles with armed poachers
and was a target of multiple attacks
and ambushes.
His selfless work,
done over decades, could not
have been more dangerous,
nor more heart-rending.
Rory leaves at home a wife and
two children whom he
loved mightily.
Please make a donation to the
Rory Young Family Memorial Fund and if possible to
Chengeta Wildlife, which Rory co-founded
and led as CEO.
Rest in peace, lion.
🕊
🗡
Shoju sat all night in the graveyard
among wolves who sniffed his Adam’s apple.
First light moving in the air
he arose, peed, and ate breakfast.
comfortable wherever you happen to be
The ways of the world
are uncertain, and a single thought of
seeking to have everything leads to myriad
complications. If you make yourself
comfortable wherever you
happen to be, you can
go anywhere.
be absorbed in the now
The
present moment
is the source of everything.
As long as you have resentments
about the past or ideas about
the future, you cannot
genuinely be in
the present.
You owe it
to your future self,
and to the rest of us, to be
completely absorbed here and
now. Make all notions of past
and future a cool pile
of ashes in the
corner.
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