Quote: the Artist's Way is a spiral path, there is no such thing as being done with an artistic life!
This was inpsired by the following, which was recently sent to me:
There is a stirring within me, a quiet rumble, not a roar. It has no particular shape or form. It is not born of the past and does not live in the future. It is a movement of consciousness following a course all of it's own.
Sometimes I try to squelch the stirring because it is uncomfortable, but the stirring persists. It grows in the womb of the unknown. It has a life of it's own. I do not know where it will take me. Yet I trust the movement of the stirring. I gfeel the power of the stirring and I am willing to change in the stirring.
The stirring is for more life. It is for greater expression. It is beyond your imagination and is never planned. Do not crush the stirring; it is the result of your deepest prayers. It is the substance of your desire to be more. It is Love in it's natural state, waiting to be used. The stirring is the new, never-birthed you. It is the rhythm of life sounding a new beat. It is the calling of your own heart.
Safire Rose
This was created for a travelling art journal and my inspiration came from my own search for peace and joy in my life. They go hand in hand and I wondered do we need peace to experience joy? Can we have joy without peace?
I like the idea of being lifted by joy and leaving a trail of peace behind me!
You just never know where your thoughts will take you!
The idea of turning and flowing downstream with the current, has been something that I've thought a lot about over the last year. The phrase...travel downstream...is one that's heard over and over in the Abraham Hicks material. We've all had the experience of struggling to get something or be somewhere (even struggling to find a place of peace!) and no matter how much we huff, puff, push and pull...it just won't work. Letting go of the struggle, relaxing into a state of allowing and trusting that something else...something even better...will come to us, allows us to "be" peace.
And of course having friends along on the journey is so important...helping us light our way and sometimes even holding the light for us when we can't do it ourselves. My little friend the squirrel here, has his own wee lantern and is watching for rocks and other debris that may need to be steered around. (This is my "playful" reminder in this piece that I spoke of in a previous post) I've also added the observer...the solitary and silent crane. There are so many people with whom we cross paths every day and although we don't overtly interact with them, on some level we touch each other's lives just by the act of observing
This piece was done to draw attention to the situation in Juarez, Mexico, where over 800 women have been murdered since 1993 and 3000 are still missing.
