Saaxiib Qurux Badan

Oh, I’m a lucky man
To count on both hands the ones I love
Some folks just have one, yeah
Well, others, they’ve got none, uh-huh
Stay with me, oh
Let’s just breathe

Practiced are my sins, never gonna let me win, uh-huh
Under everything, just another human being, uh-huh
And I don’t want to hurt, there’s so much in this world
To make me believe

Stay with me
You’re all I see

Did I say that I need you?
Did I say that I want you?
Oh, if I didn’t, I’m a fool, you see
No one knows this more than me
And I come clean

– “Just Breathe”
by Pearl Jam
(from the 2009 album,
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See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
• Aglow
• October Afternoon
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – October 1, 2023
• Like a Lotus Flower
• In the Stillness and Silence of This Present Moment
• The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment
• Today I Will Be Still
• Allow Everything to Rest Right Now
• A Sacred Pause
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – February 14, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 16, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – January 4, 2023
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan – August 25, 2022
• When Sorrow Comes
• Just One Wish
• Blue Yonder
• “So You Can Only See Beautiful Things”
• My Love, “Return to the Root of the Root of Your Own Soul”
• Adnan . . . Amidst Mississippi Reflections and Forest Green

Opening image: Saaxiib Qurux Badan (“Beautiful Friend”), St. Paul, MN – Michael J. Bayly (11/19/23).