Looking skyward...

I have the most amazingly talented friends:  

Crafters 

Painters

Writers

Quilters 

 Photographers 

 Jewelry Designers 

 Decorators... 

artists at all levels.  

They listen to the whispers of their soul 

and with passion honor their heart's desire.

I saw this quote and thought of them all.  

When once you have tasted flight,

you will walk the earth with our eyes turned skywards;

for there you have been,

and there you will always long to return.

                --- Leonardo DaVinci

Skin Horses and Magic Fairies Teach Us...

For the past 25 years, my major focus has been about becoming the person I'd lost as I trudged through most of my life in survival mode.   Over and over, I asked the questions:  Why did it take so long to learn this?  Why wasn't I smarter at 25? and Why am I going around this bend AGAIN??   

Then one day--or more realistically, a slowly-by-slowly process--I saw a new someone in the mirror--a someone whose heart had found peace and a reasonable amount of wisdom.

Recently a friend posted the following on Facebook--and I realized that I'd been too hasty during my youth.  Perhaps if I'd shopped more in the Children's Department at my local book shop I would have understood that finding oneself takes time....

“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby.

But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”                                                                      

                                                                                  ―  Margery Williams

                                                                                        The Velveteen Rabbit