Be Kind to You

​"You Are Worthy (Bird)", "Be Kind to You (Giraffe)", "You Are Wise (Duck)" and "You Are Magic (Rabbit)", acrylic on panel, each 8" x 8".  Ready to hang.  Available here and at Artfinder.

The noise level in the studio is MADDENING! So many critters with very loud opinions. But at least they are shouting positivity and encouragement!

​This week has been particularly challenging for my inner muse.  Too much reading/listening/watching the news has my edges feeling sharp and pokey.  My spirit feels consternation and worry, sadness and despair.  And this is AFTER efforts to avoid news.  Eee gads.  Imagine if I were diving in and absorbing it all.  Whoa.

Some time ago, a dear friend gave me a copy of John O'Donohue's To Bless the Space Between Us.  Sometimes I just open it up and see what inspiration and wisdom it holds for me.  Today's was a doozy!  Read on:

You Are Worthy (Bird)

Be Kind to You (Giraffe)

You Are Wise (Duck)

You Are Magic (Rabbit)

For Citizenship

In these times when anger
Is turned into anxiety
And someone has stolen
The horizons and mountains,

Our small emperors on parade
Never expect our indifference
To disturb their nakedness.

They keep their heads down
And their eyes gleam with reflection
From aluminum economic ground,

The media wraps everything
In a cellophane of sound,
And the ghost surface of the virtual
Overlays the breathing earth.

The industry of distraction
Makes us forget
That we live in a universe.

We have become converts
To the religion of stress
And its deity of progress;

That we may have courage
To turn aside from it all
And come to kneel down before the poor,
To discover what we must do,
How to turn anxiety
Back into anger,
How to find our way home.

​             John O'Donohue

"Converts to the religion of stress" - oh my!   And this, written in 2007, is especially true even today.

And so I am wishing you a weekend of "turning aside from it all", as we celebrate mother's day and embrace spring, where everything is new again and we can perhaps "find our way home."

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A reminder about the latest READER GIVEAWAY!  Post a comment on this blog (or social media - tag me) about what YOU would/could/might do to express you inner WILD CREATIVE  if you felt no rules at all!  The winner will be announced next week, and will receive an original piece of malarkey.  Because you, you and YOU are my favorite wild things. :)