My soul has an absolute and relentless need for trips into enchantment. It requires, enchantment like the body needs food and the mind needs thought to survive.
But, I am bombarded daily, by a culture who prides itself on disapproving and explaining the sources of enchantment. Our society is always explaining away every mystery, one after another, under the guise of sophistication, the need to grow-up and the need to appear intelligent. As if indulging in the imagination, is not any of these things!
I often wonder, is this why American culture is so obsessed with the fear of aging? Instead, we only need to hold on to all things that keep up carefree, naive and questioning…the magic of enchantment.
Feeling philosophical or not today, cultivate your enchantment…daily…it improves the quality of life.
On my artist date today (a date with myself and art, outside my studio); I ran into an old acquaintance. It was a brief and lovely encounter. But what stood out to me, was when she asked me, “How are you?” I blurted out that I was in flux. When I saw her puzzled look, I quickly smiled to put her at ease, since the word “flux” sounds chaotic to some. Yet, it best describes where I am right now.
The word, Flux means “continuous change, instability; constant movement. I sometimes take the meanings of words from the dictionary and in order for it to have meaning and relevancy to my life, I add a spin on it. Flux is one of those words.
Why, because when I think of continuous change and being an adult, over 50, flux can be a scary word! The unknown is still scary to us of a certain age, because now when we come up against it when we feel vulnerable. Vulnerability means no defense mechanism and damn, that’s even scarier.
But I’m looking at this another way, flux as being vulnerable. Vulnerable is the beginning of being open to change, continuous change…flux. I am embracing flux, as a challenging, exciting adventure, for which in the middle of my life, I am so ready for!
Embrace your flux; you earned the right to be vulnerable, it may be leading you to a higher level of self awareness.
In peace.
P.S. Brene Brown at TED, looks at “vulnerability” and why it’s a great thing!
My use of color is an attempt to create my own physical harmony, hopefully, as a way to tap into the resources of mental, emotional and even spiritual energies that sustain me, which enable me to stay sane.
Hmmm…so much for poetic musing! The bottom line is if I don’t color in and outside the lines, I go crazy!
So Viola! the blur of my lines.
(Process: Oil/Acrylic, on Canvas, filtered and blurred in Photoshop)
My soul has an absolute and relentless need for trips into enchantment. It requires, enchantment like the body needs food and the mind needs thought to survive.
