What is the alchemy of joy?
April of 2021 took me to the hospital. I’m lucky to have gotten through a very unexpected near death experience, and every day since has been filled with even more gratitude.
With that comes a knowing: it’s time for me to get back to what I crave, to what makes me feel most alive.
For me, that’s always been art, working with my hands and following my creative impulses. An idea will tug on me and usually, I’ll find inspiration in nature or in emotional experience. I look up into the trees and see… a nest? That tangled mess of pieces is what I need right now, helping me understand how to heal. Words spill onto the page. Words become art poems and I put my brush to the canvas…
I’ve finally made space to allow what’s always been inside of me to emerge. I’m setting out on wild + free journey with no destination in mind.
Let everything happen to you:
beauty and terror.
Just keep going.
No feeling is final.
—Rilke