Dear Friends,
Thank you for all your comments! Oh MY! I didn't mean to lead everyone to think I was throwing in my glue stick! I guess that's how it came across, but it's so nice to hear your support and encouragement. I've decided to make friends with my mess and look at it all as part of what I do...as following my passion....as being who I am...not that my art defines me or makes me who I am...it's more what is in my heart. I've lived on a constant pendulum of resisting my creative self...it's time for me to not be afraid of what I'm seeing and what people will think...I just need to keep just being me. Anyhow...thanks for listening. It's amazing how many of you out there totally identify. I've been using this "down time" or this "creative reflection" time to do lots and lots of reading about Artists, both living and not. I'm simply fascinated in reading the similariites (and that even the most famous, accomplished & talented suffer from such doubts, fears, etc)...and this is across the board in all creative endeavors, whether it be writing, acting, singing, what have you. So many times, we can become our own worst enemy..but I hold this quote always close to my heart when I get afraid of what will happen next...
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
~Marianne Williamson
So, I leave with this thought today as I pack my messenger bag and hit the road for a weekend away. I will be toting my artjunk or "mess" if you will as I've come to look at it as really being my security blanket...as really being home. my home. my words. my colors. my heart. Have a great weekend friends. xo lia
