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I’m building a bonfire.
I’m setting light to a spark. Fanning a flame.
Sometimes you need a hot reminder of truth. The why behind the path you are on. The reason to burn, burn the midnight oil. The project, the hope, the home, the new life, the great love, the art that needs to be born.
I’ve got big desires. 2014 has been and will continue to be a revolution of a year for me. Come Christmas, I expect most everything in my life will look different than it does now.
There is hustle to get hustling. Art to be making. Pottery to be selling.
Birth is not a tidy process. Bringing about change in life is not clean, it is far from linear. There are times I feel like I’m wrangling a hundred angry cats in a sack. Sometimes I get eaten up, consumed with fear. Sometimes only fire will burn to the heart of the matter. It sears out the painful places and brings the hurt up, up and out to the surface.
There will be times to stop and rest. This is not one of them. There will be times to pause, reflect and contemplate. Now is the time to make, make, make.
I’m launching rockets and sparklers and as much light as I can summon up and I’m sending it out into the world. I’m going to finish lingering projects, start bold new prospects and go adventuring for happiness.
This is a public declaration of longing. A stated desire for a new way of being, of feeling and of living.
I want to feel wide eyed awake in every moment of my life. The feeling when you take a deep inhale and feel firecrackers behind your eyes.
No more numbness.
{an excerpt from ‘when death comes’ by mary oliver}
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
Fire, consider yourself started.
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