Rise And Fall

“We are mere mortals of energy, captives of our minds and clothed in emotions of needs and wants.”

Our determination, like our energy and hope, rises then falls as we move through moments of trial, times of troubles and dreams that echo the blackness of night. We rise as Maya Angelou once wrote and fall, as Icarus melting, our human spirit fears its limits and leans toward desire, turns Sunflower like to the golden light. We are mere mortals of energy, captives of our minds and clothed in emotions of needs and wants. We fall and rise to fall and rise, again: sunset, sunrise.

To be human is to know imperfection and will, to move within and beyond dogma, pulling possibilities for the future, forward. Being human, means knowing limits and embracing learning through repetition and time, through the rise of hope and the tug of intuition.  Centuries of our making are within our cells, colliding and culluding to transform who we are, deepening our relationship with the universe from which we came, creating both possibilities and problems.

There is no doubt to our rise of evolution, nor the possible fall to our knees to nature. We rise and fall with fear and hope, and the curiosity of a child that knows no limits. 


What Matters

“It is through times of hardships that we find who we are, where we see our strengths and better our weaknesses.”

In the thick of adversity, one finds what matters, what uplifts and brings us to a place of clarity that eases the way forward. This profundity sheds light upon our darkest times, allowing us to see through the fog of mind and emotion, smoothing the truths of reality so that we may best move on. It is through times of hardships that we find who we are, where we see our strengths and better our weaknesses. To be still within the midst of beauty, be it nature, words or the hand created, provides us with the deepest opportunities of respite and resolve: pulling deep the intuitive universe within. 

What matters is within our attention, despite the whirling that may surround us. What matters is what we feel that matters, what we hold onto and perpetuate in our minds and days of doing. This is not a difficult task, it is held within us, our ability to reason, to see beauty within the ugly, to try and start again. Within our difficulties are the truest pockets of beauty, if only we choose what matters in every moment that we’ve created, stepping back and merely seeing. To capture beauty in the moments that matter stills it to memory, creating fortitude for the long road ahead. 



Striving

“Through the creative languages we find our flow, what resonates deepest and illuminates the forward trail.” 

The striving to do better and to be better is a process of discovery, a curiosity of finding what satiates the mind and body, regulating emotion during the ups and downs of living life. It is within this process of seeking that we learn who we are, matching thought and emotion with doing: creating beauty and finding meaning. Through the creative languages we find our flow, what resonates deepest and illuminates the forward trail.

 

“We ought to try, by the example of our own lives, to prove that life is love and wonder and that that nation is doomed which penalizes those of its citizens who recognize and rejoice in this fact.”

James Baldwin


Creating Change

“The creative languages are the vehicle to possibility, the salve that heals the past, informing the future.”

It is said that life is a narrow bridge and that all we have is work and love, work and love, an infinite game to inspire and to be inspired. Life is a beautiful ugly, not purely right nor wrong. To better one’s life is multi layered, but starts within, starts with the intention to grow and change. The creative languages are the vehicle to possibility, the salve that heals the past, informing the future. To be better is to see who we are, what’s before us and what’s in our control: to see beauty where little seems to be. 

“We each have a creative mind, it’s inherent to who we are, a tool for change: funnel and sifter.”

We were each born with an open mind, this is the place to begin again, to create what the future is demanding and what our conscious has been telling. To inspire the future is to change ourselves, we are the builders, the doers, the creative minds that pause and reflect and then push forward, offering resolve and shining the light. We each have a creative mind, it’s inherent to who we are, a tool for change: funnel and sifter. Our brains are mailable, so too our bodies, change is an act of energy, as too creation. To change and create therefore is a natural action, a means of survival, a way to proceed. It is not a matter of perfection, but the action of will and the emotion of hope. 


Intimate

“It is within the necessity of the intimate, that the world moves forward, and without it, implodes.”

The evidence of the hand in creativity cannot be fully replicated, in fact it is expanded by the story of the maker, how they create and why. In this world of the instantaneous, the depth of the maker’s story brings a level of intimacy to the already physically intimate object, a connection of hand, eye and emotion. It is within the necessity of the intimate, that the world moves forward, and without it, implodes. Human connection whether with each other or by proxy of the created object, brings out our humanity, softening our experience of living. 

“Human connection whether with each other or by proxy of the created object, brings out our humanity, softening our experience of living.”