When I first created this blog, I thought my intent was to share all sorts of my mixed media art with you, but as the last couple of years have happened, so much has changed and I find myself on a different sort of path now. It’s hard to permit myself to embrace that the things I wanted even just a few months ago are not part of the reality I am working to create for myself today.
The truth is, the last several months I have been on a
journey back from a life-altering discovery…and I plan to tell you about it one day,
but for now, I don’t want to be defined by this “thing” or have it to become
the focus of what my life is about. So today, let’s just say that it is one of
those things that continues to rock me to my core every day and leaves me with
the understanding that the woman I was prior to this “reality” is very
different from the woman who is emerging on the other side. I am awake now and only just beginning to
learn how to be comfortable with this new me.
I am also learning first hand that often times in order for all
of the dark things within us or around us to heal and really be filled with
light, we have to lean deep into them and allow them to fall apart…really fall
apart….like smashed to bits and then run over with a truck until they are
unrecognizable fall apart.
I am slowly, one delicate and intentionally chosen piece at
a time, putting myself back together now.
Did you know that when the Japanese break something they put it back together one piece at a time by filling in the cracks with silver or gold? They believe that something is more beautiful once it has been broken and pieced back together again so they have made an art form out of the process…. I love this idea because as I now know from personal experience it means that in addition to all of my chips, cracks and broken pieces contributing to the beauty of my story, the spaces between the broken bits are the shiny spaces where the light get in and makes me more beautiful. What a wonderful concept.
Did you know that when the Japanese break something they put it back together one piece at a time by filling in the cracks with silver or gold? They believe that something is more beautiful once it has been broken and pieced back together again so they have made an art form out of the process…. I love this idea because as I now know from personal experience it means that in addition to all of my chips, cracks and broken pieces contributing to the beauty of my story, the spaces between the broken bits are the shiny spaces where the light get in and makes me more beautiful. What a wonderful concept.
Wishing you bliss and blessings.
Heather
