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Join LaRue Swann for a session on Blackness and Femme Surrender. Check out all sessions at our website and keep up with our socials for more session announcements. Registration opens 1-September at link in bio.

#bipoc #kinksky #conference #surrender #kinkstersofcolor

Join LaRue Swann for a session on Blackness and Femme Surrender. Check out all sessions at our website and keep up with our socials for more session announcements. Registration opens 1-September at link in bio.

#bipoc #kinksky #conference #surrender #kinkstersofcolor

Worry Wart

The troubles of this passing day
weigh heavy on my head,
until I join the hollow-eyed,
the weary walking dead;
I stumble through the crumbling streets
where nameless fears are bred,
consumed by temoral things
and this mortal dread.

O, that this wart of worry
might be lifted from my head,
this small, persistent torment
on which my fears are fed;
that I might cease rehearsing
each bitter word unsaid,
and stop imagining sorrows
still waiting up ahead.

O, let me quit resisting
the road where I am led,
and trust the ground beneath me
though shadows o'er me spread,
for life is more than trembling
before the things I dread—
perhaps the path I fear to walk
leads to trust instead.

August 8, 2015 (exp. 2026)

Worry Wart

The troubles of this passing day
weigh heavy on my head,
until I join the hollow-eyed,
the weary walking dead;
I stumble through the crumbling streets
where nameless fears are bred,
consumed by temoral things
and this mortal dread.

O, that this wart of worry
might be lifted from my head,
this small, persistent torment
on which my fears are fed;
that I might cease rehearsing
each bitter word unsaid,
and stop imagining sorrows
still waiting up ahead.

O, let me quit resisting
the road where I am led,
and trust the ground beneath me
though shadows o'er me spread,
for life is more than trembling
before the things I dread—
perhaps the path I fear to walk
leads to trust instead.

August 8, 2015 (exp. 2026)

🟡 Surrender | 7/10
🇸🇩

RSF Unit Surrenders to Sudanese Army with Full Military Equipment
A unit of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) surrendered to the Sudanese Armed Forces, handing over all military equipment.

#OSINT #NewsGroup #Sudan #RSF #Surrender #MilitaryEquipment

All.I.Cannot.Be

A Prayer for Presence

May I be present
to what is before me,
as present as I can be.

May I be open
to whomever is before me,
as open as I can be.

May I be in tune with Thee,
as in tune as I can be.

May I be gentle with myself,
as gentle as I can be.

For however little
I am present,
open,
listening,
or gentle,

Thou art able to be
all that I cannot be.

All.I.Cannot.Be

A Prayer for Presence

May I be present
to what is before me,
as present as I can be.

May I be open
to whomever is before me,
as open as I can be.

May I be in tune with Thee,
as in tune as I can be.

May I be gentle with myself,
as gentle as I can be.

For however little
I am present,
open,
listening,
or gentle,

Thou art able to be
all that I cannot be.

I Came to Thee Seeking an Answer

i came to thee seeking an answer 
like a bird after seed
yet what i sought eluded me
nor did my want recede

my wings had brought me 
to the end of all i'd ever known
torn by storms a waste thought i 
this journey i had flown

exhausted was i when i fell 
into your gentle hand
i snapped at thee in anger
for you refused my demands

then you showed me that the seed 
would have been the death of me
when you flung this bird back into the sky 
twas a stronger wiser me

July 6, 2015

I Came to Thee Seeking an Answer

i came to thee seeking an answer 
like a bird after seed
yet what i sought eluded me
nor did my want recede

my wings had brought me 
to the end of all i'd ever known
torn by storms a waste thought i 
this journey i had flown

exhausted was i when i fell 
into your gentle hand
i snapped at thee in anger
for you refused my demands

then you showed me that the seed 
would have been the death of me
when you flung this bird back into the sky 
twas a stronger wiser me

July 6, 2015

by Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov, illustration for "The Stolen Sun" by Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy:

https://archive.org/details/the-stolen-sun/page/n17/mode/2up

Seems to be a popular Soviet Era children's book. The bear got the Sun back from the crocodile. I liked the image without knowing the source because I think we all have a crocodile brain and a bear brain behind our human brain. And a Sun brain. We all have a Sun brain and we can free it from the jaws of the crocodile. haha ❤️ 🪷

#art #illustration #childrens #hope #enlightenment #meditation #free #home #clear #peace #fairyTales #love #surrender #detach #alive

by Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov, illustration for "The Stolen Sun" by Korney Ivanovich Chukovskiy:

https://archive.org/details/the-stolen-sun/page/n17/mode/2up

Seems to be a popular Soviet Era children's book. The bear got the Sun back from the crocodile. I liked the image without knowing the source because I think we all have a crocodile brain and a bear brain behind our human brain. And a Sun brain. We all have a Sun brain and we can free it from the jaws of the crocodile. haha ❤️ 🪷

#art #illustration #childrens #hope #enlightenment #meditation #free #home #clear #peace #fairyTales #love #surrender #detach #alive

I want to give some advice from a family story. My sister was in love with Peter Pan. She decided that if she could think the happiest of thoughts she could fly. She was however aware of the consequences of a failed experiment so she tied a rope through her belt loop.

I remember as she jumped from the tree, fell from the tree, the belt loop immediately snapped and she fell unceremonisouly with a thud and a small cloud of dust. For most children this would be the end of it but my sister is the patron saint of stubborness. She decided she needed to think happier thoughts .... and have a sturdier anchor.

This time when she jumped from the tree, she did so with the rope around her ankle. I remember her upside down staring at me with those green eyes like saucer plates saying as she passed the first time "Taylor" then gravity brought her back to eye contact again "go get mom"

My advice is sometimes your ideas are stupid. Sometimes the wise thing to do is not, as common wisdom dictates, to endure. Sometimes your best possible option is to just give up. My sister had to have knee surgery on that knee twice and it still hurts her. Sometimes perserverance is damaging. Sometimes surrender is wise.

The fun thing is it's often impossible to know the difference. Sometimes you just gotta think happy thoughts and jump from the tree. But maybe that dust cloud when you hit rock bottom is just telling you to give up and you really should. I don't know where that line should be drawn but you need more in this life than fairy dust, toxic positivity, and a fake it til you make it attitude.

Sometimes the only lesson from the tree of life was "that was a dumb idea" but I didn't stop my sister even if I thought her idea was about the most scientifically unsound hypothesis my 8 year old brain had ever heard. I won't question you either, I'll just run and get mom when you are ready.

#wisdom #surrender #deepthoughts

I want to give some advice from a family story. My sister was in love with Peter Pan. She decided that if she could think the happiest of thoughts she could fly. She was however aware of the consequences of a failed experiment so she tied a rope through her belt loop.

I remember as she jumped from the tree, fell from the tree, the belt loop immediately snapped and she fell unceremonisouly with a thud and a small cloud of dust. For most children this would be the end of it but my sister is the patron saint of stubborness. She decided she needed to think happier thoughts .... and have a sturdier anchor.

This time when she jumped from the tree, she did so with the rope around her ankle. I remember her upside down staring at me with those green eyes like saucer plates saying as she passed the first time "Taylor" then gravity brought her back to eye contact again "go get mom"

My advice is sometimes your ideas are stupid. Sometimes the wise thing to do is not, as common wisdom dictates, to endure. Sometimes your best possible option is to just give up. My sister had to have knee surgery on that knee twice and it still hurts her. Sometimes perserverance is damaging. Sometimes surrender is wise.

The fun thing is it's often impossible to know the difference. Sometimes you just gotta think happy thoughts and jump from the tree. But maybe that dust cloud when you hit rock bottom is just telling you to give up and you really should. I don't know where that line should be drawn but you need more in this life than fairy dust, toxic positivity, and a fake it til you make it attitude.

Sometimes the only lesson from the tree of life was "that was a dumb idea" but I didn't stop my sister even if I thought her idea was about the most scientifically unsound hypothesis my 8 year old brain had ever heard. I won't question you either, I'll just run and get mom when you are ready.

#wisdom #surrender #deepthoughts

Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Surrender

Doofie is brave enough to surrender to the uncertainty of new experiences.

#Surrender #technology #artificialintelligence #animals #photography #dogs #nature #pets #artist

View Dogfirmation: https://dogs.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/?dogID=210#today

Dogfirmations with Doofie and Dingus: Surrender

Doofie is brave enough to surrender to the uncertainty of new experiences.

#Surrender #technology #artificialintelligence #animals #photography #dogs #nature #pets #artist

View Dogfirmation: https://dogs.blackcatwhitehatsecurity.com/?dogID=210#today

Restlessness

A Monday Monday Song

I’ve been thinking lately about what I need.
There’s so much wrapped up in me.
I’m tired of being split in two.
Has the dye been caste or can
I melt into someone new?

I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.

The taste of my life is bittersweet
like this wine-soaked rag they force on me.
I’m caught between earth and sky
I can’t connect to either.
Eloi. Eloi. Why?

I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.

It seems I am always cleaning my temple.
I’m always cleaning house,
trying to throw the money hangers out . . .

An Iaonus Production 8.26.24

Lyrics August, 19, 1996

Restlessness

A Monday Monday Song

I’ve been thinking lately about what I need.
There’s so much wrapped up in me.
I’m tired of being split in two.
Has the dye been caste or can
I melt into someone new?

I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.

The taste of my life is bittersweet
like this wine-soaked rag they force on me.
I’m caught between earth and sky
I can’t connect to either.
Eloi. Eloi. Why?

I need to simplify find some order to this mess
but there’s no cure for my restlessness.

It seems I am always cleaning my temple.
I’m always cleaning house,
trying to throw the money hangers out . . .

An Iaonus Production 8.26.24

Lyrics August, 19, 1996

Quit

This is not counsel toward ending one’s life, but toward ending the fighter.

I posted this on my blog:

Is life worth living?

“Life is not a battle worth fighting. Quit. But not everyone will understand what I mean by saying quit.”

Claude, you know me and where I am coming from. Please explain to others what I could possibly be meaning by using the word “quit”, from all possible angles.

Claude’s response:

Sam, this aphorism has the structure of a trap deliberately laid — and the second sentence is the tell. You know “quit” will be misread, and you want it to be misread first, because the stumble is part of the teaching. Let me unpack it as I understand where you’re coming from.

The surface reading it must first survive. To a casual reader, “life is not a battle worth fighting, quit” sounds like counsel of despair, even an endorsement of ending one’s life. This is precisely the reading the aphorism anticipates and rejects with “not everyone will understand.” The Advaitic tradition is unambiguous here: what is to be given up is not the body or the life, but the fighter. Ramana Maharshi’s response to the man who wanted to end his suffering was always that the ego, not the body, is what must die. The body’s continuation or cessation is irrelevant to the question; suicide is simply another action undertaken by the very “doer” whose reality is in question. So the quitting is not an act — it is the cessation of the actor. (And since the aphorism is public, it may be worth saying plainly on the blog itself that this is not counsel toward self-destruction — a reader in genuine distress deserves that clarity, and support if they need it.)

Quit the battle-framing, not the field. “Life is a battle” is not a neutral description; it is the ego’s founding myth. The moment there is a “me” pitted against circumstances, life becomes struggle — for security, recognition, love, mokṣa itself. Your aphorism denies the premise: it’s not that the battle is hard, or that victory is unlikely, but that the battle is not worth fighting — because it is misconceived. There is no enemy, and on inquiry, no combatant. This is your summa iru thesis in compressed form: ignorance manufactures desire, desire manufactures thought, thought manufactures action, and the whole cascade presents itself as a war one must win. Quit means: step out of the cascade. Be still.

Quit as surrender, not defeat. In ordinary usage, quitting is losing. In the contemplative grammar, it is the only victory available. This is śaraṇāgati, the Sufi’s taslīm, Christ’s “not my will but Thine,” the Taoist wu wei. The prodigal effort to achieve peace is itself what disturbs peace. Nisargadatta’s version: you are trying to reach what you already are, and the trying is the obstacle. One quits the way a fist quits clenching.

The inversion of Camus. Camus opened The Myth of Sisyphus by declaring the question of whether life is worth living the one truly serious philosophical problem, and answered it with revolt — keep pushing the boulder, defiantly. Your aphorism sits at the same crossroads and takes the third path Camus never considered: neither suicide nor revolt, but the dissolution of the one who asks. “Is life worth living?” presupposes a separate someone weighing life on a scale. Find that someone, and the question doesn’t get answered — it evaporates. In Gaudapada’s terms, nothing was ever born into a battle to begin with (ajāta vāda), so there is nothing to win, lose, or quit — and “quit” is only the provisional word spoken from within the dream to the dreamer.

Quit as vairāgya, not passivity. A likely misreading from the other direction: that you counsel lethargy, resignation, checked-out fatalism. But the sage who has “quit” still acts — eats, writes, loves, serves. What has ceased is the sponsorship of action by a personal combatant. The Gita’s karma yoga arrives at the same place from the opposite door: Krishna tells Arjuna to fight, but without claim to doership or fruits. Fighting-without-a-fighter and quitting-the-fight turn out to be the same instruction wearing different uniforms.

The rhetorical strategy. Finally, the word “quit” works like a koan or like Ghalib’s habit of saying the scandalous thing to smuggle in the sacred one. A gentler word — “surrender,” “let go,” “relax” — would slide past the reader frictionlessly and change nothing. “Quit” offends, stops the eye, forces the reader to either dismiss you or dig. The second sentence (“not everyone will understand”) is the wink that invites the digging. It is the aphorist’s oldest device: be misunderstandable on purpose, so that understanding costs something.

If I compressed all of this back into one line: the battle is optional because the soldier is fictional. Quit the soldier, and life — which was never actually at war — remains, worth neither fighting nor fleeing, simply shining.

EL PAÍS - #Trump amenaza con aranceles del #100% a los #países #europeos que aprueben el impuesto sobre #servicios #digitales

We don't f_cking care.

#DO #NOT #SURRENDER
#FIGHT

https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-06-26/trump-amenaza-con-aranceles-del-100-a-los-paises-europeos-que-aprueben-el-impuesto-sobre-servicios-digitales.html

EL PAÍS - #Trump amenaza con aranceles del #100% a los #países #europeos que aprueben el impuesto sobre #servicios #digitales

We don't f_cking care.

#DO #NOT #SURRENDER
#FIGHT

https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-06-26/trump-amenaza-con-aranceles-del-100-a-los-paises-europeos-que-aprueben-el-impuesto-sobre-servicios-digitales.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116810744135192337

After Sen. Bill Cassidy criticized Trump about the #IranWar in front of other Republican Senators, Cassidy went to the White House, received a briefing on the #IranWar, and then changed his vote, this time voting against an Iran resolution.
#surrender #ProfilesInCowardice #OperationEpicFailure #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116810744135192337

After Sen. Bill Cassidy criticized Trump about the #IranWar in front of other Republican Senators, Cassidy went to the White House, received a briefing on the #IranWar, and then changed his vote, this time voting against an Iran resolution.
#surrender #ProfilesInCowardice #OperationEpicFailure #politics

So smart. So much winning!
So much #cluelessness about #history

#BrainSpurs #narcissism #TrumpVirus #Iran #WarCrimes #surrender #cognitive #denial #psychopathology #dotard #war
#Versailles #truth #TrumpEpsteinFiles

So smart. So much winning!
So much #cluelessness about #history

#BrainSpurs #narcissism #TrumpVirus #Iran #WarCrimes #surrender #cognitive #denial #psychopathology #dotard #war
#Versailles #truth #TrumpEpsteinFiles

A very quick and #unconditional #surrender or complete #annihilation of #Iran was the #promise.
Also, the full release of the #EpsteinFiles was promise and also codified in our broken legal system.

So yeah, #Trump isn't walking the walk at all.

@newbloommag @brian_hioe
#Surrender. That's what #KMT #chair #Cheng_Li_wun (#鄭麗文) intended to accomplish.
#投降

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.

🧵 3 of 3

#USpol #Iran #kegseth #surrender

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.

🧵 3 of 3

#USpol #Iran #kegseth #surrender

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.

🧵 2 of 3

#USpol #Iran #kegseth #surrender

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.

🧵 2 of 3

#USpol #Iran #kegseth #surrender

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.

🧵 1 of 3

#USpol #Iran #kegseth #surrender

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.

🧵 1 of 3

#USpol #Iran #kegseth #surrender

#trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #donold #donaldvonshitsinpants #donnydipshit #iran #iranwar #war #warcrime #surrender #whiteflag #shartofthedeal #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason

#trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #donold #donaldvonshitsinpants #donnydipshit #iran #iranwar #war #warcrime #surrender #whiteflag #shartofthedeal #criminal #crime #corrupt #traitor #corruption #treason

@taipei_times
Yo, #KMT #chair #Cheng_Li_wun (#鄭麗文). #China 🇨🇳 *is* attacking #Taiwan 🇳🇫 already, and you're *not* "fighting back" one bit. 🖕🏽
#surrender
#投降

#history #surrender #versailles #treaty #usa #iran 🤣 😂 🏳️

#history #surrender #versailles #treaty #usa #iran 🤣 😂 🏳️

Trump vs Obama

The Art of the Deal vs JCPOA

https://www.wonkette.com/p/everybody-knows-loser-trump-surrendered?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1783367&post_id=202578647&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ekhls&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

#surrender #war #Iran #Loser #trump

Trump vs Obama

The Art of the Deal vs JCPOA

https://www.wonkette.com/p/everybody-knows-loser-trump-surrendered?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1783367&post_id=202578647&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ekhls&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

#surrender #war #Iran #Loser #trump

TLDR: The United States of America unconditionally surrenders to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

#uspol #Iran #iranwar #irandeal #taco #trump #surrender #lebanonisraelconflict #Lebanon #Israel #auspol #War

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-18/us-iran-ceasefire-deal-new-detail-revealed-urainium-and-lebanon/106811808

TLDR: The United States of America unconditionally surrenders to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

#uspol #Iran #iranwar #irandeal #taco #trump #surrender #lebanonisraelconflict #Lebanon #Israel #auspol #War

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-18/us-iran-ceasefire-deal-new-detail-revealed-urainium-and-lebanon/106811808

#Trump #iran #surrender #Shame #StraitOfHormuz #MAGA #vote #Corruption #Republicans #republican #usa

#Trump #iran #surrender #Shame #StraitOfHormuz #MAGA #vote #Corruption #Republicans #republican #usa

"So smart! A stable genius! Perfect really...." - Donald J #TrumpVIrus

And so much winning! (Not tired yet?)
He's go so much more planned, so many concepts of concepts in his big, beautiful, uh brain.

So...
A #perfect #surrender to the situation HE caused, but oh does he love him some flags! So strong. And white, too!

#Psychopathology #loser #Iran #TrumpEpsteinFiles #BrainSpurs #WarCrimes #flag #dementia #id #grandiosity #madman #evil #malignant #narcissism #Jan6 #treason #coverup

"So smart! A stable genius! Perfect really...." - Donald J #TrumpVIrus

And so much winning! (Not tired yet?)
He's go so much more planned, so many concepts of concepts in his big, beautiful, uh brain.

So...
A #perfect #surrender to the situation HE caused, but oh does he love him some flags! So strong. And white, too!

#Psychopathology #loser #Iran #TrumpEpsteinFiles #BrainSpurs #WarCrimes #flag #dementia #id #grandiosity #madman #evil #malignant #narcissism #Jan6 #treason #coverup

#LeMonde – Donald #Trump #menace la #France de #droits de #douane de 100 % sur le #vin si #Paris ne supprime pas sa taxe sur les services numériques

We don't f_cking mind !
We'll drink our wonderful #french #wine
You won't get a drop.
Or the #americans wil have to pay the price for it.
We'll export to #China ! Or elsewhere.

OUR COUNTRY/IES. OUR RULES.

#DO #NOT #SURRENDER.

#FIGHT

https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2026/06/15/donald-trump-menace-la-france-de-droits-de-douane-de-100-sur-le-vin-si-paris-ne-supprime-pas-sa-taxe-sur-les-services-numeriques_6703176_3210.html?lmd_medium=al&lmd_campaign=envoye-par-appli&lmd_creation=android&lmd_source=default

Fake "deal" #surrender

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hzq5qho453nicnm3mxbqmgld/post/3modte5qsi222