Do you know that place where your inner puzzle pieces are shifting about and the picture calls you closer and closer?
The place where hope and anger and longing all bring tears and you’re wearing out your Kleenex boxes way more quickly than usual?
The place where swearing and praying and painting all become the same language?
The place where the only thing that would hurt worse than all the stretching you’re doing would be not stretching at all?
For the past couple of days, I have awakened to that place.
There doesn’t seem to be a “Welcome to __________” sign. I’m not entirely sure where I am.
Possibly the eye doctor’s office, playing the endless game of, “clearer one or two?” (I’ve had lots of practice with that one!)
If you’ve been reading along for a while, you won’t be entirely surprised to hear that there seems to be a lot of politics going on in this place which feels both deeply personal and way out of the box, all at once.
At one point, needing a pondering break, I hobbled out to the kitchen for a cup of hot chocolate before Colbert started.
(The closer-to-good-for-you type of hot chocolate!)
When I came back, she found me. My very first art therapy drawing from about 20 years ago.
Ironic that I needed to be found. There she is in the photo, just like real life, to the right of my magic chair and above the stacks of stuff I can’t think without. She’s been there for at least a couple of years. Waiting, I suspect.
Her name is Follow Your Heart. My first Legend journey, long before I had any notion of what that meant.
My second Legend journey, from about 3 years ago, is pictured below. Her name is Follow Your Heart, too, though I didn’t connect them then.
The obvious question, of course, is what’s in my/her heart and where is it leading?
I’m afraid the answers aren’t totally clear just yet.
Here’s what I do know. Scrawled in the heart, in invisible ink, is the word, Voice. And another word that intersects with Voice, crossword puzzle-style, that’s not quite clear yet.
I’ll keep you posted!
ps… Here’s Follow Your Heart, the second in a 24×18″ wrapped canvas print, ready to inspire you.
pps… She’s also available in a hand-signed and numbered museum quality 24×18″ print.