I share a poem I received today via email ... it's one of those show stopping... take a big-deep-breath-in ones that make you want to live your life a lot bigger. I also found it so close to my heart resonating so clearly. I believe the greatest thing I could do with this right now was to share it with you.
love Denise xo YOUR LIFE IS YOUR CANVAS Your life is your canvas. You are your own greatest creation. Don't you remember how when you were little you knew in your bones you would be able to do anything? Anything that was really yours to do? This is our chance, right now. To move out of the place of victim and into the place of creating our life as if we could do anything with it. I know you feel trapped sometimes I know you don't see the way through I know the mountain is so big that needs moving. But I also know this... Our life is our art. You are art. You are the one with the brush and the one with the colors. Your emotional landscape is the place to create your life from. This isn't about it being ALL GOOD and there being no mistakes. This is about continuing to create even when you feel like you are on fire or underwater with no way to catch a breath. This is about opening your heart to love one more time. About risking being hurt, again. About moving the cage of the body off and dancing your hips back to life. About moving the grimace of your mouth away and kissing kissing the very air in front of you. This is about an inquiry into how to be in love with anything and anyone even when you feel so all alone. I know you feel so all alone some days. So do I. But there is one thing I know for sure, that you are with me and I am with you. The red thread of connection between is as strong as ever and if you close your eyes you will see I am your companion for the journey. Fellow seeker on the path of life looking to make art out of the past and make the future into our own greatest creation. I once thought, not so long ago that the best of my life was behind me. I now know that is a lie I told myself. It is my decision for the best of life to be in front of me. Will you choose with me? Right now will you CHOOSE? See my hand extended reaching for you. We can do this together. We can open to love again. Open to light again. You don't have to get rid of your fear first, or your pain. There is a divine spark at the end of God's finger lighting the pilot light of your heart right now. I see itI! I see it! Come with me... Come with me... Come with me... to the other side of the scars of the heart. Come with me and together we will paint our new legends over cups of steaming tea and use as much gold paint as we feel we need to make the world glow again. ~ Shiloh Sophia Yesterday I made my first little video... I had a bunch of photo's from my second solo show back in 2008, that were waiting for me to get to them. As I worked my way through it's creation I was moved by the smiles on the faces of my family and friends and visitors to the opening, it was an incredibly celebratory day for me, and the gallery in which my work is represented shines beautifully thoughout the pictures.
On a more personal note... I felt like I was making a movie about someone else... someone I actually love and admire, but have not been so in tune with for the last 18 months or more, with the global financial crisis in late 2009 came a bit of a jolt and a personal artist/life crisis as well. Various things have contributed to bouts of depression and the fact I had allowed myself to become anemic once again, have brought me to a big check point where I am taking a long hard look at my life and health and wanting very much to clear out the rubbish and embrace my true self once again... with renewed strength and clarity. I’m not quite there... I’m somewhat confused about my work... but more ok about that lately than I have been these last months... after all, beating up on myself for not doing enough, not being enough, and not having enough is really the most unhelpful I can be for any kind of progress to come out of that same scenario. This little video actually made me feel genuinely happy, the music by Frou Frou is such a gorgeous accompaniment to the feeling I had for the artwork. It is my pleasure to bring something joyful into the world. Love Denise xo ... just a little test to see how to put a you tube clip into my new blog... "Life without art would be like a series of emails, be quite boring" bye for now
off for Saturday chores and things... assuming life doesn't end according to some freaked out individuals out there... bless them... I hope they're not too disappointed on Sunday or Monday when they wake up again to life as they know it. Denise xo |
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