Image Description: This side of the lap pad is a light sand color soft fleece. The lap pad is a vertical rectangle and a couple inches thick. A quote is hand embroidered with black embroidery floss. Each sentence of two is separated by a break. Mel Baggs’ name is embroidered larger at the bottom and underneath is the URL to the source of the quote.
The quote and URL read:

It’s important to find where we need to be. And then be there. Thoroughly be there. Do there. Whether it makes sense on the surface or not.

Sometimes we feel separated flailing in the dark. But each do exactly what we need to do. And underground our roots are deeply intertwined.

Disconnection is an illusion. Underneath our feet is more connection than most of us can imagine.

We are each in some way exactly what we need to be. We do best when we find that and deepen it and act from that depth.

The world needs you.

Our obligation to the world is unbreakable. So is the impossible level of love underlying anything we look at. These things are connected.

If you feel disconnected, look down. And down. And down. And down. You have roots in everything, whether you feel them or not.

-Mel Baggs
https://cussinanddiscussin.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/visiting-the-redwoods/

Photography: Francisco echo Eraso