It’s hard to stay on track with what’s authentic and enriching for the soul. At times everything gets out of whack. Since our economic crash we have lived with the challenges of stagnation and lack of opportunity. We dealt with it all as best we could. But now? Enough already. Time for new dawns and gaudy trinkets, time to dance all night and snap roses in the rain……
I feel a shift in something. I remember Elizabeth Gilbert saying that choosing the creative life often depends on which particular “shit sandwich” you can bargain with yourself over? I’ve tried adding it up in every possible combination and it seems there is only one answer. It’s time to choose the riskiest, silliest, option of all. To choose myself again…….
I love that quote from Walt Whitman “re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.” And your soul knows what it loves and what feeds you, even if you don’t. And your soul, if you are lucky, will know before you do what you need to dismiss. And all you have to do is listen……
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible;
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
― Dawna Markova, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion
Beautifully amazing. Thank you!
Ah thanks, I love that poem……new to me and very apt!
Ditto Suzassippi! Just lovely!
Thanks Robin! Nothing so lovley as fading roses and fading females……;~) x
Thanks for the gentle reminder…. go on take the risk!! just beautiful after a long day
Aha! Thanks Molly….am working on it! Will fill you in when I get a chance….x
Such beautiful words and inspiration and these images just made me stop and sigh deeply … absolutely dreamy.
Thank you Susan, beautiful fading roses and even better in the rain xx
Sounds like we’re both pondering what we love… I’m printing out that poem. I think it needs to be a daily read for a while. Great post!
Absolutely! Plus I am in the middle of even more big changes and that poem just got me in the solar plexus! Good idea, think I will do the same Maery Rose x