Abiding — doing and overcoming — with what I don’t know. #babysteps

Creativity is more mystery than mastery. Creativity, like human life itself, begins in darkness and must be given time to incubate. ~Julia Cameron

I am a dreamer … someone who is {mostly} okay with ideas having space to flow and move around before solidifying — with details being allowed to unfold like gardens in the midst of Spring. I resist clutching a proverbial clipboard — frantically checking off sequenced tasks!

All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. ~John O’Donohue

It is my practice to surrender and discover what I need {like this beautiful example expressed by my friend and colleague, Julie Gibbons}. But some days I fumble with this … I get in a tizzy and I pull the reins taut.

Because … I sorta do wanna know.

As in “how much longer?” or “should I respond?” or “will doing something only makes matters worse?”

I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke

Everybody’s had to fight to be free {Tom Petty, Refugee ♫♫} … and everybody’s had that aha moment when they decided to learn by being {and doing and going} where they had to go.

We eat cookies … {gather a tribe} … retreat … cry 96 tears ♫♫ … and we create pages in our art journals. So-o … let’s do this! Let’s do whatever it takes to go where we have to go!

To kill your dreams because they are “irresponsible” is to be irresponsible to yourself. ~Julia Cameron