Unblocking my Creativity

Finally this weekend, with the full moon, I've started to clear and organise the clutter I've been living with, since moving to this house in September.  This beauty emerged from the pile of books where they'd been dumped, behind my art journaling "ephemera" box. I resolved to get over my startled feeling, and embrace it as a personal symbol for restoring my creativity.

Having this cup & card to hand* from the clear-up process, I was able to remove the spider to an outdoors location, without harming it.

*I always have what I need.

Read it or Forget It

New Moon in Libra

Make the World a Better Place

Wherever one is in this world, space, time, and any other dimension for that matter, one can become distracted from what is really important. I only know how I feel, and that is how I determine how far or close I am to what I should be doing. 

Waffling again, leads rise to feelings of having too much to do - all imperative to get finished, in order for me to reduce stress; yet in reality, this is the very time to slow down and breathe, to let go and learn from that  moment, what really is important. Like missing a best friend's birthday, a brother's or a grandaughter's next milestone.

Phong in India

"Spend one day in India and you could write a book about it,
spend one week and you could write an essay,
spend one month and you could write a paragraph,
spend one year and you could write a sentence...
spend any more than that and you'll be speechless."
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Gratitude for Mystery

What about us, drifting in a tide of changes, unfathomable, mysterious. Be aware that there is mystery beyond your words, beyond explanations on YouTube, viral on Facebook. Be aware of the mystery of where you are at this moment. Be aware that you always have what you need, and be satisfied with that.

Inspired by Lodestone, from The Mara Crossing by Ruth Padel

A good day's work

This new house has plenty of good light. It has inspired me to get my sewing machine out - a rare occurrence and something I do usually, only under duress.

I took it out yesterday and did a couple of repairs and altered some curtains. Today I up-cycled some lace and made a sexy top, altered a frumpy dress into a top, repaired another dress and started up-cycling a couple of sweatshirts.

T. S. Eliot

"Only those who risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go."

Preface to Transit of Venus poems by Harry Crosby (1931)