Week Thirteen Awaken Creative I'm warmed in this Northern Hemisphere spring season by the fire and will of my heart to create.
But not just create for creation's sake.
Create for understanding.
For growth.
For connection.
And for the pure and simple delight of having found something within myself that resonates through all of the world.
Welcome.
Awaken Creative to Week Thirteen.
Let's see what quote we've got to carry us through this beautiful time.
I believe in simplicity.
It's one of my core values.
Core principles.
Even while sometimes I can look back over creations I've made across the canvas or into the world and realize I've complexitized.
That's not a word.
I've made things very convoluted and quite the opposite of simple.
But in realizing this dichotomy or this creation on the other side of this value of mine,
This simplicity standpoint,
I can see all the more how important it is to me and what truth and honesty there is in it.
Simplicity in these spring months seems contrary to what the world is showing up as.
Everything is bursting forth.
Not just the spring bulbs and the lawns and the trees budding,
But the weeds and the birds and the bugs.
Even humans coming out of our own shelters.
Our own hibernations in force.
It can be very complex and confusing.
But that's where choice comes in.
To see all this,
To know all of this,
And still settle into your simplicity.
The intricacy of each human hand's capacity to work from this simplicity of one's own core and then let the weaving of one to another be the beauty that comes helps us all live within our true ourselves.
Not just solely,
But all together.
This week's quote isn't just something to use as a mantra.
It's also a challenge.
A challenge with two parts.
The first,
To settle into yourself.
Spend a few moments,
Or even hours,
Perhaps days,
Giving pause to identifying the core principle and value of you.
It's simple once you see it.
Not hidden,
Not veiled from you,
But so obvious right in front of you,
You can miss it.
So first,
Find this spot that is your core value.
The second,
Take it to your canvas.
For me,
What that has meant and what it is meaning is to not shy away from one simple brush stroke,
Thinking it not enough.
To believe more than ever before in a palette of few colors rather than a composition of rainbows.
To trust that one hand gesture will speak volumes over a myriad of marks.
Take up this challenge this week,
Creator.
Awaken to this place within yourself that knows what it knows that it knows and work from there.
Rilke brings us the poem quote this week.
Speaking as it does to this simplicity into which I am leaning.
Could we be here then in order to say house,
Bridge,
Fountain,
Gate,
Pitcher,
Apple,
Tree,
Window.
And the things even as they pass understand that we praise them.
I want then simply to say the names of things.
Perhaps this is what we do when we paint.
We praise and we simply say the names of things.
Awake and creative today.
