4 trees planted for every book sold

I hope to bring you a little closer to yourself and a little closer to the earth. To remind you how to listen to your heart. To help you feel big when you need to feel big and small when you need to feel small. To help you feel alive.

If I’m on a trail long enough

I slow down to the pace of life

the true pace

I join the beat of the earth 

I join the shifts in the wind

I join the flaps of the butterfly

and eventually

the forest sees a friend in me

and begins drumming me along

with each step

in harmony when I’m listening

and random when I’m not

and I have found

that listening to life

does not mean an unwillingness

to listen to yourself

but that you’ve remembered

even for a moment

that you

and life

and that forest drumming you along

are one.

I’ll never

perfectly capture

nature or love or God

in a poem,

but I’ll spend

a lifetime trying.

- Joey

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