#innocence — Public Fediverse posts

THE CHILD IN THE MIDDLE 🔹

This morning, after my breathwork, I sat looking out the window.

It was only nine degrees, but I didn’t need the heating. Pete was steam-cleaning the floors, the house smelled of lavender, and about two metres from me, a huge green parrot with a bright red crest was having his breakfast in a tree fern.

The window framed him perfectly. He couldn’t see me through the glass. He stood on one foot, held his food with the other, and then, just as I was admiring him, he fell over.

He recovered his dignity. And I laughed. He’s still there as I’m writing this.

Making peace with the past doesn’t seem to stop memories from surfacing. It just changes the way they land.

Sometimes an old piece comes back without asking to be fixed, only to be seen from where we are now. And sometimes something you have blamed yourself for all your life suddenly becomes clear: it wasn’t you. You were a child. You weren’t responsible.

My parents were unhappily married. My mother became pregnant with me, and in those days, that meant they had to marry. I grew up with a deep sense that I was basically unwanted.

It has taken me a lifetime to see that whatever was happening between them belonged to them. It was never the responsibility of the child who arrived in the middle of it.

Something similar has been happening with my memories. I can look back at my childhood and see what happened without carrying the old guilt with it.

Children are not responsible for what happens to them.

That recognition has released something very old in me.

And then the forgiveness goes further.

I can look at my mother and father and see two very young people who hardly knew one another, trying to live with what they knew at the time.

I don’t have to pretend the family wasn’t a catastrophe. I don’t have to rewrite the past or make painful things beautiful.

I can simply see more clearly now.

I was mistaken about my parents.

That doesn’t mean the events were different. It means my perception of them is different.

And strangely, wonderfully, I find deep gratitude there.

The Course calls it a movement from insanity to sanity. For me, this morning, it feels much simpler than that.

The past is still the past.

It just isn’t touching me.

Meanwhile, the parrot is having breakfast, Pete is cleaning the floors, the house smells of lavender, and life keeps presenting itself.

One miracle after another.

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works
@startrek

#Forgiveness #Childhood #HealingThePast #ACourseInMiracles #ACIM #Innocence #Perception #Family #Gratitude #Miracles

It is always challenging to me why police are so gung ho to assign blame when, if they get it wrong, the real culprits go free—justice for no one.
Krys Boyd interviews Barbara Bradley Hagerty along with Jay Young and Ben Spencer. “For every exonerated individual in the criminal justice system, there is another forgotten victim: the original victim’s family who now has no closure.” 🎧📻 #innocence #wrongfulConviction
https://think.kera.org/2026/08/20/the-other-victims-of-a-wrongful-conviction/

Her innocent smile and the way she holds onto her little doll… that’s her entire world in a time of uncertainty. 💔Behind this gentle smile is a childhood fighting to survive, and a glimmer of hope waiting for your kindness.Every child deserves safety, a future, and a warm place to call home. Your donation today is not just a number—it is a lifeline that restores hope and protects their innocence. 🤍✨🔗 Donation link in bio.#SupportChildren #CharityCampaign #Hope #Innocence #MakeADifference

Unicursal ALL WAYS LAWFUL INNOCENCE Propaganda from Hermetic Library Office of the Ministry of Information

https://hermetic.com/information/all-ways-lawful-innocence/index

#propaganda #AleisterCrowley #thelema #TheHeartOfTheMaster #all #AllWays #ways #lawful #innocence

A quotation from John Adams

   We are to look upon it as more beneficial, that many guilty persons should escape unpunished, than one innocent person should suffer. The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in the world, that all of them cannot be punished; and many times they happen in such a manner, that it is not of much consequence to the public, whether they are punished or not.
   But when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, it is immaterial to me, whether I behave well or ill; for virtue itself, is no security. And if such a sentiment as this, should take place in the mind of the subject, there would be an end to all security what so ever.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Speech (1770-12-03/04), Argument for the Defense, Boston Massacre Trial

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/15073/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnadams #bostonmassacre #nothingtolose #civilrights #crime #criminal #exoneration #guilt #guilty #innocence #innocents #justice #lawandorder #moralhazard #protection #punishment #security #socialcontract #justicesystem

The world is a bad place! When did you find out?

#poll #innocence

Childhood Beliefs: When the Moon Follows You

https://legawa.com/2026/06/27/childhood-beliefs-when-the-moon-follows-you/

Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence - Trailer (restoration)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XkATpPvqEA

#GhostInTheShell #GITS #Innocence #Movie #Trailer #Spoilers

Kenji Kawai Live - (Ghost in the Shell: Innocence) - Kugutsuuta kagirohi ha yomi ni mata muto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJsEYwguuj8

#KenjiKawai #Live #GhostInTheShell #GITS #GITS2 #Innocence #Music #Cyberpunk #Japan

Innocence: it is one of the most precious resources this planet has, because without it greed and deceit, perversity and hate, craftiness and egoism rule.

And I imagine most of us have experienced the impact of those six working together.

Golden Harvest canvas print -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/golden-harvest-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #garden #summer #innocence #child #girl #flowers #nature #joy #wallart #canvas #sun

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/pages/plate-057-farm-girl-in-frame/

I’m not sure whether the frame here was part of Dobson’s painting, but i love it. Dobson’s paintings were known for the “innocence of the young”, a popular theme in England in the 2nd half of the 18th century.

There’s also a version with just the frame.

The scaled-down images in Mastdon look much better in Firefox than Chrome here.

#vintageArt #vintageEngraving #innocence #art #painting #engraving #fobo #WilliamCharlesThomasDobson #border #frame

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
-- Robert Browning

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RobertBrowning #Ignorance #Innocence #Sin

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Dinosaur #Tracks #Colorado

Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Innocence

Dingus is safe to be his authentic, innocent self.

#Innocence #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #Animals #Photography #Dog #Nature #Pets #Affirmations #Art

View Dogfirmation: https://dogs.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/?dogID=140#today

Friday is a day off. Kinda wakes up full of energy and beauty, saying, "O beautiful rose in the garden, O butterfly's abode, O jewel of flowers... May your morning be as beautiful as Kinda's today." https://chuffed.org/project/16

#Gaza
#GazaChildren
#Childhood
#KidsDance
#LittleGirl
#Hope
#Resilience
#Joy
#Innocence
#LifeGoesOn

The Big-Eared Clown, Self-Portrait (of Klee), and the White-Haired Eskimo (ca. 1921–25) by Paul Klee.

Source: Zentrum Paul Klee / Wikimedia Commons

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bce2e456-f15d-4f9e-a22c-e01993287b12

#childhood #innocence #costumes #angels #dolls #death #faces #loss #textiles #art #publicdomain

Not a big opera fan, but hey this is historic:

Finnish women as composer, librettist, conductor and co-star (folk musician Vilma Jää) at the Met in #NYC

#KaijaSaariaho is only the third female composer featured in nearly 150 years at the #Met (starts around 0:25)

#innocence #opera #SusannaMälkki #SofiOksanen
https://areena.yle.fi/1-77549116

#innocence : the state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin

- French: innocence

- German: die Arglosigkeit

- Italian: innocenza

- Portuguese: inocência

- Spanish: inocencia

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Guess the next word of the hour @ https://24hippos.com

The Georgia Innocence Project is hosting a party in Decatur on June 6, if you're into that sort of thing.
https://givebutter.com/sweetfreedom2026?blm_aid=844716033
#Atlanta #Georgia #DecaturGA #innocence #justice

Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Innocence

Dingus is safe to be his authentic, innocent self.

View Dogfirmation: https://dogs.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/?dogID=140#today

#Innocence #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #Animals #Photography #Dog #Nature #Pets

RE: https://kinkycats.org/@gentlemanlover/116264302213102920

La peur crée le déséquilibre.

La fascination pousse au ré-équilibre.

Mais bon sang qu'est-ce que ma fascination a à me dire ?

#nudite #innocence #fascination

I send thanks to the buyer from Alabama who purchased several weekender tote bags of

Golden Harvest -- https://fineartamerica.com/featured/golden-harvest-steve-henderson.html?product=weekender-totebag

May the image bring to both you and the recipients of your gifts a feeling of joy, tranquility, and peace.

#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart #summer #flowers #nature #girl #child #childhood #garden #plants #outside #outdoors #shopping #sale #fedigiftshop #basket #innocence #joy

"The power to determine who is 'innocent enough' to live cannot belong to overreaching authoritarians bent on trampling every check on their power."

~ Jason Sattler

#Trump #MAGA #CBP #ICE #immigrants #murder #execution #guilt #innocence #authoritarianism

https://thecause.substack.com/p/innocent-until-proven-sympathetic