Sneakers and Skirts

                                               I'm a bit on the nutty side. I laugh loudly, I love deeply, I smile broadly, I get pissed when provoked and hold grudges. I converse with the dead, hang with the angels, see spirits and I wear sneakers with skirts. Always. 
Not kidding.
I really do.
​ I admit it, I am really nuts, and I love that about me and I love that about you. 

Yes, YOU! 

Don't hide your nuttiness from me, I can see it and more importantly I encourage it! 

Life encourages us to be nuts. If we weren't nuts we wouldn't have decided to come to this crazy, beautiful, amazing, scary, love-filled, hate-filled, brilliant and magical planet we call earth.

 Earth, in all of her psychedelic colors, unimaginable animal life, vegetation, waterfalls, oceans, mountains, hills, suns and moons, indescribable sounds, tastes. pleasures, atmosphere, etc., encourages us to live a full and rich life of nutty. 

How many times in this past week alone have you said, "that is nuts", "that is crazy", "that is insane", or my personal daily mantra of late "WTF is wrong with this world?!" 

Earth is crazy and its inhabitants are even crazier and that, my friends, is nuts!

And there is no other way it could be. 

We inhabit this huge round crystal ball that is somehow floating around in a solar system that began with a speck of dust and a star.

 Crazy, right?!

The Solar System was formed from a rotating cloud of gas and dust which spun around a newly forming star, our Sun, at its center.
The planets all formed from this spinning disk-shaped cloud and continued this rotating course around the Sun after they were formed.
The gravity of the Sun keeps the planets in their orbits.
They stay in their orbits because there is no other force in the Solar System which can stop them. 

 Yup, nuts!

And here we are thinking somehow that we are supposed to be all serious.. to not have fun with this? 

C'mon. 

Even Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, author, and science communicator, who may be the only living man who understands enough about how this thing works pokes fun at it. 
That guy cracks me up. 

We can not sur-thrive unless we embrace our inner nut.

Anyone of us, at this very moment could spend hours, if not years, debating the current political system, the economic outlook, the races, religions, education, health care system, global warming, as well as numerous other current issues that do indeed need to be discussed and "fixed" to make human life on earth more balanced, but let's keep the nutty alive.

I'm not advocating insane or delusional. That nut needs to stay in its shell.

I'm not a fan of greed, pharmacy over food, fiction over fact, religious wars, poverty wars, war of any type and if I had it my way, 90% or our current "leaders" in this world would be put on their own special island where they can create their own special hell and leave us nuts alone to create our Utopia.  

I am advocating freedom to live fearlessly in our own uniqueness.

I advocate turning off the television, putting down the books, leaving the radio on mute, leaving your phone at home, unplugging the internet.
 
I am advocating tuning into ourselves and our own personal uniqueness, whatever that may be.

I am advocating thinking about how incredibly awesome you are and how your own brand of nuttiness is making this gorgeous piece of artwork that we inhabit home.

I am advocating owning both your darkness and light. Loving who you are and what you see when you look in the mirror.

I am advocating knowing that here, right now, without YOU, without me, this world would be less. 
Less amazing, less beautiful, less psychedelic, less enjoyable, less creative, less diverse, less real. 

Without you, without me, without them, we are less and being less is unacceptable. 

Wear your hair purple if that makes you happy. Eat only veggies or eat only meat or eat both. Practice your religion and leave others to practice theirs. Drive an orange car, ride a motorcycle. hike a mountain, splash in a stream, swim in the ocean, ride your bike uphill and fly downhill, ski, run, laugh, live, sing, yell when you are pissed, cry when you are sad. Build your tribe of like-minded individuals and leave other tribes alone. Beat the crap out of a punching bag, eat ice cream or not, dance with abandon, wear sneakers with skirts. Tell a dirty joke and even better laugh at one. Be determined to live a life worth writing about, but above all, live your life in your own nutty way and let all others do the same.

 Love yourself, love the earth, love one another and love your nutty life. 
  

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