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| Hi John! Today I want to share my ritual with you. It's the simple routine I do to keep myself grounded. This is the season where so many of us feel like we're losing our grounding... like the ground is slipping away. This is how I get it back. Cartoon: It's raining love, but not for you! 🫠
Dad Joke: Shrinking 🛋️
Merch: My most loved of 2024 👕
Quote: Revolutionary love 🧡
Original: Tender and Mild 👩🍼 |
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Sometimes I think of a way to improve a cartoon after I've already posted it. The first time the hands along the bottom weren't colored. So I'm trying a second version of Love Hog. This time with some color in the hands! |
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| Therapist: It’s all in your head. Me: Okay. I live in there, so… |
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| “The world we have known is ending. A new world is wanting to be born. What is needed now is for survivors of trauma and witnesses of crisis to see ourselves not as victims but as pioneers of a new way of being human. We can become sant sipahi: sage warriors. The warrior fights. The sage loves. It’s a path of Revolutionary Love.” This is from Valerie Kaur's Sage Warrior. |
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| Joy in. Love out. Rituals that keep me grounded |
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| Let me let you in on a little secret on how I try to start my day every day. A little of my spiritual practice. First, I make a good cup of coffee. Then I get comfortable in my favorite sitting spot, turn on the lamp, and read some contemplative writing. Like Sage Warrior. Or any of the other books I share with you on a weekly basis. Then, I write in my journal… quotes from the book I’m reading, maybe a powerful dream I had, and some of my own thoughts and reflections. Then, I do breathing exercises, Wim Hof method. Then, I do stretches. At the end of about 10 minutes of stretching, I stand facing the sunrise and put my hands together in front of my face. Then I take in a deep breath of “Joy”, and exhale a deep breath of “Love”. Joy in. Love out. Then I go for a run or ruck. When I get back home, I shower, make a second cup of coffee, and then get to work on a cartoon. That’s my morning ritual when everything’s running smoothly. The part I really wanted to share was the joy in love out part. Joy in. Like everyone I know, I struggle too. I feel like I need to be intentional about being joyful. I need to mean it. Do it on purpose. If I just fly by the seat of my pants, the gravitational pull of life might drag me into sadness, and sometimes it wins. Especially if I let it. I deeply believe I have a lot to be thankful and joyful for, and I need to remember this and practice it. I want to be carefree and lighthearted, and so I intend this every single day. It’s the same with love out. I do not want to give a knee-jerk reaction to what’s happening around me. I get a lot of nastiness sent my way every day. And if I let it, it will all get to me. I can feel resentment and bitterness rise in my heart. I feel like I need to be intentional about loving and giving loving responses to what comes at me every day. Love people! I say to myself. Help people! I say to myself. Every day. Otherwise I might forget and let the gravity of hatred win, and I don’t want that. I resist that by starting out my day with love out. Always love out. Do you have a practice that helps you stay grounded, centred, and present? This is mine. |
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| Original: Tender and Mild |
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| We're living in a time of tragedy. Deep tragedy. Some of us have just enjoyed Christmas while others are enduring yet another month of war and brutality. It's not okay. This is NOT okay. I wanted to convey a Palestinian mother and child that would conjure up the image of Mary and her infant Jesus. Part of the proceeds go to various charities that would help the people of Gaza, especially the children. |
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| I hope you're happy and well. I hope you let some joy in today. And I hope you find ways to share love. Joy in. Love out. Always. Everyday. Much love my friend, David |
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