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If you’ve noticed a lot of angst in the world... in your life, or that of those around you, you’re not alone.
Beyond the uncertainty of transitory times, fall and winter traditionally bring misgivings. For our ancestors, the bounty of fall’s harvest were shadowed by the foreboding of a long and uncertain winter survival.
That genetic memory is still a driver in our modern psyche. As the nights diminish the daylight, these seasonal changes can affect our physical, mental and emotional states. The inflammation in the world systems can infect our own.
If this is your current experience, just remember, no winter lasts forever.
Creativity can turn around the doldrums. Creating opens the coloring box of your heart and spills brightness into dark places.
You cannot wait for your art to come together. You must do it… you want to do it. Same thing with your life. Don’t wait for it to happen to you… help it to happen because of you.
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The Rose
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed
That with the sun’s love, in the spring
Becomes the rose.
~Excerpt from ‘The Rose’, by Amanda McBroom
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Martha Grow recently shared a calligraphic stanza of the amazing timeless classic song, The Rose, in the iCreateDaily for Creators Facebook group.
Do you know the story behind the creation of that amazing work of art? It was incidental… accidental… and not written by a songwriter.
At least she wasn’t yet a songwriter.
You never know what may come through the portals of the universe and download straight into the creative mind rendered fertile through the simple act of creating daily.
Creativity stoked daily opens the gates to an infinitely creative universe seeking expression.
The Rose
Some say love, it is a river
That drowns the tender reed
Some say love, it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love, it is a hunger
An endless aching need
I say love, it is a flower
And you, its only seed
It’s the heart that fears the breaking
That never learns to dance
It’s the dream, afraid of waking
That never takes the chance
It’s the one who won’t be taken
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul, afraid of dying
That never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed
That with the sun’s love, in the spring
Becomes the rose
~By Amanda McBroom
Amanda McBroom’s “download from the universe” was a tremendous catalyst to her creative career.
“Amanda McBroom, along with her favorite song-writing partner Michele Brourman, has written songs for 16 animated features for Universal Studios. Her songs for these films have been performed by such artists as Michael York, Reba McIntyre, Lucy Lawless, David Carradine, and Don Osmond.”
One thing is certain: if you keep on going you will get somewhere. |
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Create the life you want to live, one day at a time.
~ LeAura & Devani
The Day is The Way
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