IHATPPL

While on our way back from a store, we came up behind this car with the license plate, “IHATPPL”. I think it was supposed to be read as “I hate people”.

We humans have the impulse to label and categorize the world to avoid the anxiety of the unknown. While naming objects helps anchor our sense of reality, it can also confine the true essence of things within rigid mental structures.

No matter how fast you run, your shadow
keeps up. Sometimes it is in front!

Only full overhead sun diminishes your shadow.

But that shadow has been serving you.

– Rumi

Where are you?

Who are you?

Why do you seek
As though
I am lost