Today is the Feast of Mary Magdalene and we have a show in Belfast, ME. called "Camu-Lot: Curved Light", and the Magdalene is one of the featured pieces, because the queens of Avalon were of her lineage. We did not plan the show to be up during her feast, but isn't that the magic of the rhythm!
Inside all the rhythms of our lives is an order and this order is given to us so that the compassion of sweet ecstasy can be felt inside our creative process.
This morning, beautiful and a little cooler, we kayaked early, had breakfast on the water, and painted. This is becoming more flowing for us and we find that we can go out for a couple of hours, feel the rhythm of the water and it helps the rhythm of the rest of our day.
We both felt a strong sense of a large picture coming into view, so we went slow and made ourselves available to it. The full journey of creating and writing is pivoted by the availability of our minds to the creative work.
Allowing my mind to muse, to sit inside a big idea, is not always easy, and usually some distraction tries to appear and take up lodging.
I realize I must reclaim my space and set up a boundary for my mind.
The bigger the idea often the bigger the distraction. In a time like that I must move all my forces of focus together and know that once the distraction knows it will not succeed, it will usually dissolve into itself, disappear, or leave.
A large idea, or bigger picture is always worth the time, and room it takes.
Once you commit to it the move will set. In the midst of everything today a large distraction appeared, I finally, after several days realized that was what it was.
It took a bit but that is all it truly is, so back to the "Root Child and the Coming of Fairies".
What a rich & insightful entry! It is, indeed, so comforting to slow enough to sit inside the stillness of your own deep internal rhythm and hear the order that lies under it all. I treasure those moments when I can get to that space because that is where that Big Picture resides. And you're definitely right, getting to that space requires making the mind available by setting up the boundaries needed to keep those distractions at bay. Not always easily done!! I've always admired how much you & Robert keep your mind,body, & spirit always available to receive the Big Picture of this work and the rich rewards that has brought.
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I am going to try again and see if my excited love of these photographs and words of "...that I must move all my forces of focus together..." and how much I need to do it (referenced above),
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Suzanne, beautiful insight. Thank you so much for integrating this work so directly into your life, that is how this bridge works.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for recognizing our efforts to always be available to the work.
love,
Su.Sane
Susanna, thank you for the namaste, I always need it. :-)
ReplyDeleteSo glad you are having time to read the blog.
love, Su.Sane
Sandra, YAY! you've come through the mist, and now you are in fairieland, Avalon. :-)
ReplyDeleteWe love these picture, too.
You know they are all about fairieland.
love,
Su.Sane