Happiness, Satisfaction, Peace

When I saw Peter Birkhäuser’s artists captured, yet supported, by the monstrous shadows, I could identify with the struggles of the artist—and of the writer. For nearly ten years, I have been working sporadically on a novel, and this image defines my feelings: I can neither work nor get away from it. Yet the ghost, the shadow, wants only to help, to support the work, despite its ghastly appearance.(from gallery artifact Artist as Shaman). I can see my personal journey through my novel and I hope to polish it enough to send out again to find its own place on the market. I have to let it go.

Reflection on The Natural Gate

The natural gate is represented by the trees in the distance--does one see the trees or the forest? Allowing myself to experience joy is at once the most difficult and yet the easiest task I can set for myself. I have misunderstood the need for allowing uncertainty, for allowing trust, and for allowing things I no longer need to lie in the dust behind me.

It’s those words: submit, sacrifice, relinquish and give up that are hard to hear. How about release, make sacred, allow, accept, and move on, remembering that what I want to leave behind is fear, anger, regret, confusion and despair.