Try Another Story

Today, I made the conscious decision to leave my old stories where they lay.  Today, I will honor them differently.  I choose not to pick them up and carry them without recognizing their true purpose.  I will treasure what they have taught me and return home with the most beautiful gift I have received, the one they wish to always give...I l l u m i n a t i o n.  My old stories are continuously encouraging me to start fresh, to start over, reminding me that I already went that way.  "Try another," they whisper.  

My stories, like a constellation, in movement and beautifully scattered about.  They hold and are keepers for the greater story that makes up all the pieces of me.  The thing I often forget is that I have choice.  I choose story.  I believe we are story makers.  It is how life unfolds, or how we unfold it.  No matter how much a story is happening for me, no matter how thick or entrenching it feels...there is an alternative option: climb up on another.  Adjust my focus.

So, I choose creativity.  I make art.  I make art in my own way.  And to tell you the truth, I had a hard time posting this video because of a story that replays often and one that I keep telling is: my artwork is not "pretty" by certain standards.  According to my own inner-critic, I am not an artist.  This is a very stale story.  I am realizing that this isn't even valid.  As an artist of life, my most passionate purpose is to share my experience.  To go first.  To stumble and still find beauty in all of it.  To inspire others and to remind people like yourself that your expressions are amazing, because you were meant to do just that, you Amazing Soul.  

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They make graceful mistakes and love the heck out of who they are. 
They just keep getting up.  
They keep pressing on to the one thing that is true: Illumination.  
They can stand in light, be in light, enlighten...because they can 
{end of story}.

My wish for you and I is to create for the purpose of expressing our true light.  To create without barriers...because WE CAN.