Musings

Being here on Earth is a once in a lifetime opportunity, so don’t take it for granted. You’re here to change the world with your unique Glow.

Isabelle Smith, aged 9.5 yrs

Hello, and welcome to my blog. I started this website as a place to put all my musings and writings. I have always loved writing, and use it as a way to process my inner thoughts and to help me make sense of the world around me. Feel free to look around, see if anything catches your attention, and maybe something you read here will spark the golden thread of creativity within you too. See more at olutolani.org

  • Be Bold

    Be Bold

    The Dragon’s Head whispers by the light of the Moon: ‘Be bold. Not with might, and horns, and clashing swords, but with grace, poise, and kindness to all’.…

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  • Sorrow

    Sorrow

    Sorrow prepares you for joy.It violently sweeps everything out of your house,so that new joy can find space to enter.It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of…

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  • Love

    Love

    Jaguar looks at Panther, sees power and beauty,Panther scans the jungle, feels anger and fear.Jaguar beside Panther, feels love like the ocean,Panther looks away, thinks ‘don’t leave me…

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  • Spring

    Spring

    Deep down in the earth it is ferrous, dark, and damp. Cloying soil bonded to every hair of my gnarly, twisting, entangled roots. I feel the humic crumb…

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  • Spirit

    Spirit

    I am the material embodiment of Spirit, and yet I am here and not here.I see you and feel the sacred geometry of your subtle bodies pass through…

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  • I feel like I’m dying

    I feel like I’m dying

    I’ve been thinking about death a lot lately. Wondering what it feels like to be at the end of your life. To see death approaching, drawing ever closer,…

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