“In the name of the Fire, the Flame and the Light; Praise the pure presence of fire that burns from within without thought of time.”
––John O’Donohue
Kate's Turn:
The intensity of the spring sun penetrates our winter’s blanket, under which all life forms have lain in rest, awaiting the attention of its enlivening warmth and light to resurrect new life. Paying attention to your creative intention, touching it everyday like the spring sun, activates your creative dreamseeds. Allow this poet, Nita Penfold, to beckon you:
“Think of a time when you were truly yourself,
that age before the mask was pulled tight
before the roles were welded like armor to your skin.
Remember the one thing you loved
above all else, that, given perfect freedom,
you could be found doing
when they looked for you to do something else,
something useful; the thing that made
you feel whole and hopeful,
full of something that lifted you out of yourself
but anchored you home
so that you didn’t know where that thing began,
where you ended
so much were you in the river of it, the flow
of hand to heart and heart to soul,
that was all of one piece called you.
You know what it is. Remember it.
Hold it up like a shiny vintage ornament
Turn it to and fro.
It is the true gift
just below your conscious thought, itching at you
to touch it once more.
Latch onto that feeling,
let the stillness find you and the wholeness
bubble up from the bottom of your stone well.
What might you do with it now?"
Get Fired Up:
Be like the spring sun and touch your creative work every day.
