conquer fear with love

We are being lead by power-hungry men in suits. They have no wish to represent us as people but themselves in their own comfortable lives. Nothing is changing because we are as a collective not caring enough. I can only imagine while they socialise in their marble floored living rooms, they laugh at us, mock us, call us numbers, battery cells, sheep and we have earned those titles. Its time to stop conforming so loyally. We are being lead blindly and need to begin educating ourselves through books, conversation and online. Not through mainstream media and its terrifyingly brilliant brainwashing techniques.
Make yourself aware of how this system operates and this will allow you to make the conscious decision on whether you want to partake in or disagree with whats in front of you today. Make your own conclusion.
- food industry
- clothing industry
- pharmaceutical industry
- pollution
- gun and drug trade
- global economy
- history

The root of all sin and suffering derives from fear and that's their best method of control. We are much more capable of love than we are the other but we must make huge effort to create paradise within our minds, you are the creator of your own existence.
Learn to forgive the foolish ways of our only human brothers, learn to accept the fate of death and through doing so you will realise there is nothing to fear. And nothing to be taken too seriously either! Quit taking part in activities which cause pain like the job you complain about so much. Have a long hard think about what you might want to achieve in this life of yours, don't be afraid of failure or judgement. Find that passion of yours, that spark and chase it, grow old with it, capture it and die with it.
Live your life in a state of gratitude and empathy, leaving behind only footprints of love. This creates a ripple effect.

winter nights

Purple sky and black crows

Fill the air thick.

Wind it ripples the frostbit leaves to sleep

And like the chatter of my mind

The black crows squeak

In a fretful pitch

Bringing together the end of a day.

© 2015 Lewis McDonnell

walking miles

Walking miles

Walking miles along sandstone paths

Sunrise melting

Drip drip dripping

Snow from emerald green grass.

A shroud of the infinite

Reflects in the stillness of a morning lake

Where time sinks deep into marsh land mud

And all ill thoughts dissolve

Like clouds in the soft breezed sky

Carried across fields of dense bracken

Those screams become songs                                

Whistling                                                                     

As they reach the hills lined with heather

© 2015 Lewis McDonnell photography by Ross Irving

the nomadic way

The nomadic lifestyle is a journey of discovery. A journey which takes you deep within the self and far across new horizons. It allows access to emotions, feelings, people and landscapes you did not know before existed. It can drag you down to the depths of loneliness, confusion, hunger and exhaustion but in due turn it lifts you up to moments of sheer bliss, appreciation and gratitude for life at point to tears of joy. Everything is intensely alive during this adventure and all is in constant movement and evolution. Relationships are short but electric, the coming together of two souls with no restrictions or social expectations is an explosion of energy. A world where at times you feel like you have nothing soon becomes a world of having everything. Freedom.
The level of growth is enormous, learning so much every day you can struggle to keep up with it however with the long days your allowed much time for contemplation and reflection. Travelling widens your understanding of life's rules.
You realise that nothing is permanent, all is energy not disappearing but changing forms. Every experience no matter how bad or good contains a lesson to be learned.
Every person contains aspects of self.
You realise that where ever you go in the world everyone is still human. They may speak in a foreign tongue or hold different beliefs but all contain love and the seek of connection and approval as most beings we know.
The world can be a terrifying place at times or it can be a beautiful playground for expression and creation. Your perception controls this.
If you truly want something in this life you can have it. But this desire must be put at the top of the to do list. Learn to prioritise your wants, if something is holding you back from that then do something to change it!
Forget what anyone else thinks. Its not their life to make sense of. Seek contentment and fulfillment don't settle for the temporary distractions. Don't live for the weekend but live for everyday you are gifted with. The time is now not tomorrow. Your special, a powerful being, a creator in a complex reality and your life is important so get out and live it.

Living in a rat race

Rat race

Ring ding
Get up
Time for work
Chop chop
Dont stop
Its monday
Youv got bills to pay
Fill up on your coffee
You pale faced baggy eyed
Waste of space
Your a number now get in order
Your property
A white collared slave to the trade
Now behave
Do what I say
No time for questions
You rodent
You crumb of cement
I'll punish you to a 9 till 5
Torment
For your conformity
You weak spirited
Blind to the truth
Piece of decay

Do we need to suffer before we can fully appreciate pleasure?

As I watch the limp rolled up cigarette between my fingers slowly burn to dust.
I think of my life
All my experiences they have faded into nothing but thoughts.
As I take a deep inhale of the ghostly grey smoke and feel it burn my throat
It reminds me of the pain I felt those nights and how it thankfully didnt last.
As it enters my lungs coating them in a flood of darkness
I begin to think
Do we need to suffer to fully appreciate pleasure?
And is pleasure nothing more than a distraction from suffering?

Keep moving on. Only the present moment exists

Nothing exists but the present moment. Nothing like it shall ever exist again. Take it as it is and fucking embrace it for you shall never have that exact moment/thought/emotion again not just you but no one else ever. All is perfectly unique. Understand that everything is very temporary, everything passes like clouds in the wind, it all moves on, they dissipate and create new. If you are one to hold belief in the theory of evolution then you may agree that new experience is growth and is the procession to more understandment and better ways of dealing with similar encounters that will most definitely appear in the future. So we should be seeking to grow and move on. We should avoid getting stuck in the murky swamp of memories left behind by our past.