So many sorrows wrapped up in tomorrow, there's no time to borrow, we're only to cry. Cry our eyes out until we're surrounded by water that will take us away and we will float aimlessly for awhile. The next thing we know, we are lying in a field with nothing but the vastness of space before us. She winks her many eyes at us to let us know that we suffer what countless, nameless others have suffered through the ages. We are never alone when we need to feel surrounded. We can only be linked by our love for the common experience, feeling familiar yet excitingly new.
There is no way to touch this with your fingers. Only the tendrils of your heart can reach beyond the depths of time into the astral plane where all souls are one. It is in this place that we feel what everyone feels. It is there that we see ourselves in everything around us and we know that this place is real and that the physical is illusion. It all fades into dust and is swept away by the four winds. Our place in this world can not be known through the mind but felt with the soul. As the buddhists would say:
May all beings be free from suffering and causes of suffering.
May all beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May all beings be joined in the happiness wherein there is no suffering.
May all beings dwell in equanimity free from attachment and hatred.
Blessed be.

Greetings and good evening.
I realize that it has been some time since I posted anything but you are just going to have to deal. Anyway there is no time like the present so, what's going on? Well, my shamanistic studies are really taking off ( I know I never mentioned it before but it is something that I have been doing for quite a while so, moving on). Lots of work working with animal totems, deities and Otherworld journeys. I am starting to move forward again after a long stint on the plateau of going nowhere. As a result I am feeling energized and empowered, like I am uncovering mysteries that I have been searching for for a long time. I am relying more on working with energy and intuition rather than being so concerned with tools and such and it has given my practice a boost that I never would have expected. Hooray for exciting new developments!
By the way, if you have absolutely no idea what I am talking about, look up some info on modern wicca and magickal practices and you will feel a lot less lost in this random world of thoughts that is my head (well it's my internet head because you could not actually be inside my head but you know this).
I only bring all this up because all this magickal work that I am doing is directly effecting my art. I have some big plans in mind but I dont want to give them away just yet because they are still in the beginning stages. The next step is a fairly big one so I will keep you posted on the details. Anyway, I thought I would check in, let you know that I have not abandoned the blog or anything, it's just life and living. Bye for now.

so, I know that I have not posted in a little while and that is mainly because I am working on getting my art photograhped so that I can then place it here for all you lovely people to see. In the meantime, here is an older piece of my writing that I quite enjoy. Keep in mind that I was in high school when I wrote this so you are getting a glimpse of my teenage mind. Have fun!

I want to tell you that you need to be less doubtful about where you are going in your life. You will do what you are meant to do because that is the way that you are. Don't feel sorry for those who can not help themselves because in reality they can. And don't worry about all the people who say that they don't have enough because they have plenty whether they know it or not. Just to be alive and part of this world is a treasure that is greater than any amount of gold in the whole world. You will do what you are meant to do and your mom will be very proud of you and she will be okay. She will miss you a lot but she will be okay because she will have her family to talk to when you are not around. You know not what you do when you threaten to end the very life that sustains all nature and her wonderous being. You have no power other than what is already in you because that is all you will ever need and it is from the goddess and god and of the goddess and god. You are one with their energies and they are one with you. You are trying too hard to talk to them. You don't realize that talking with them is so simple that once you figure it out you will be kicking yourself for not seeing it earlier. Just continue to listen to your gut and you will find the answer. It may sound funny but your gut knows all. Listen to your intuition and you will open all sorts of doors to all sorts of worlds and possibilities.

So much empty space, I wonder what sounds you would hear if you held the darkness up to your ear? I'm sure your first thought is that you would hear nothing; it would be silent. But I think you might be surprised to know that you would hear something; an inner noise that you had been drowning out until now. That noise is the sound of everything you don't want to hear, the bad as well as the good. There are the run of the mill fears and doubts but then there are things like self apprasal and the patting of oneself on the back that if we truly believed it, would mean that deep down we are all actually good people. We can't have that sort of thing roaming free in our heads, so let's turn down the volume on that and focus on the bad instead. That way we have no one but everyone else to blame for how awful we think our lives have become.
I wrote this a few days ago and, of course, is blatant sarcasm but it got you thinking, didn't it?

It was a rather lovely day out today, with the sun shining and the breeze blowing. They say there are going to be some thunder showers later this evening. Let's hope so because I love it when it rains. I love what it does to the air and how it makes all the colors of the world seem a little brighter. It would be nice if it could be like that all the time but then, I suppose, I would not enjoy it as much.
We seem to only find precious the things that are rare and few and far between. We think that everyday is the same, boring thing but that is only because we can't be bothered with the details. We take a quick glance around us and think that we have seen the whole picture, yet when called to describe what we have just seen we can do little more than provide a list of standard fare; a tree here, a car there, maybe a person walking about.
Being able to see the sacred in everyday life comes from taking the time to notice and appreciate the nuances of our daily round. Everyday can hold some wonderful new treasure that we never noticed before but was always there. Make every day an adventure by opening your eyes.

This is Creative License, where I am going to do anything, be anything, talk about anything. Being an artist, I am going to use my creative license to hopefully delight, entice and inspire others to do the same. I am on a mission to start putting my work out there for the world to enjoy, despise, feel indifferent to, whatever. This is the beginning of my quest as an artist out in the world rather than an artist in my studio, and to my family and friends. There will be pictures, art, poetry, rants and raves and whatever else I feel like posting because that is the beauty of creative license.