Your pictures are beautiful!
Just a thought: understanding and healing are natural processes for older versions of ourselves. Sadly, youth is made for doing dumb things. It's perverse, but I learned this week that someone I knew who in her early 20s was into a spiritual path to avoid a bad childhood, got into a lot of trouble in her mid thirties and died at 36. We don't escape what's waiting for us. Getting old is a privilege and we may only get to slay our demons once we have learned their shapes from the people around us. And find animal companions along our way 😉
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Soooooo well said. And I agree, I am grateful for my youthful stupidity, that I was smart enough to survive it and learn from it and leave those behaviors behind.