It is rare for a journey to be free of wounds and scars, my friends, so use the healing elements of our planet to heal those wounds and fade those scars that you have acquired along your journey.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
— John Berger - November 1926 - January 2017