Joy is an inside job with outside rewards...

...if I stay put, my insides will eat me up and my happiness will burrow deeper within me.

...if I go, personal, wellness, and monetary rewards will come.

Freedom is...

...a barefoot girl, with bright paint on her toenails, walking, galloping, skipping, sitting through and in warm, summer sand. The salty, sweet breeze wrapping her up in a familiar hug, blowing her hair gently, making it dance around and above her face. A peaceful smile tickles her lips as she gazes, content, over the small and large, calm and crazy, rolling and crashing waves that make up the deep, complex ocean of existence before her. The sun has kissed every inch of her body, awakening her skin to the bright possibilities of today.

...swaying trees. Flowers drizzled with fresh, morning dew. Birds flying high, playing in and around air currents. Laughter. Open roads and fields and vistas from mountaintops. The feeling when you dance or sing without worry. Going on a walk alone, with your dog, in a quiet wood or by a peaceful river. Water. Of any kind.

A leash-free world is...

...a world where boundaries, and judgements, and harmful restrictions, and fear melt away to a constructive, supportive, interesting, loving community. A world where people of different beliefs, backgrounds, shapes, and colors...

bare a common responsibility

to protect and nourish everyone, including ourselves.

...enclave...a distinct cultural or social unit

Somewhere off in the distance

I see a strange little speck

Glimmering there, shifting and morphing

With uncertainty...

Or is it possibility?

A shape-shifter of astronomical proportions,

This speck is cHaNgE.

It lives within the misty.murky.mess

Of life,

Making the blurry lines of the future

The solid outline of this

EnClAvE where we belong.

"There are many different ways in which the new will be revealed. All you have to do is go along with it and not resist it. Change need not be painful. It is inevitable because nothing can remain the same; and if you look into your heart, you would not want it to do so." --Eileen Caddy

"What we play is life." --Louis Armstrong