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Book pages
Enjoy sampler pages from my book-in-progress!
The artist’s window
Through the open windows flows a warm, welcoming breeze. It envelopes you with a soft smile and a feeling of home. A tranquil sense of home.
Why am I here?
This wondering leads your gaze to settle on the Cyprus trees and terracotta rooftops, where pigeons flutter as they go about their home making. You feel peaceful and calm as a creative buzz flows through your chest, as welcome as bubbly lemonade on a hot summer’s day.
Ah, that is why I am here.
To use my voice, leave my mark. Suddenly, like a kaleidoscope through time, you see how countless others have sat at the window, yearning and seeing and wanting to express their creative vision. How countless people have doubted their artistic role – forgetting we all carry the artist’s pen in our hand. This hand is unique to us all; the mark it leaves necessary and beneficial as we leave our world a more beautiful place than when we found it.
So. Breathe at the window. Remember that you too are an artist, creating in any or every moment as you walk your path through life. Breathe at the window, let the warm air envelope you, and let the art inside of you come into the world.
Inner child, the swing
The hillside is alive with colour and birdsong. Wafts of pollen tickle at the senses. A lone tree marks the peak of a hill, a swing dangling from it in an alluring and utterly captivating way. It beckons and calls to you…
“Come and play on me!”
All at once you are transported back in time, to Little You, to your childhood. Your spirit lightens, and you skip towards the swing in sweet delight. As you experience your childhood footsteps, another sensation washes over you. A shadow of trepidation, a hint of uncertainty that taints the candy floss atmosphere.
Why is no one else playing with me? Why do I feel so alone?
You pause, realising that Big You is holding Little You’s hand. You squeeze hands reassuringly. You remember now, these moments of loneliness. The contradiction the world had seemed to your young self.
You reflect on how you’ve carried this confusing view of the world through much of you life. It hasn’t served you well. But here is your chance to nip the thought in the bud, before it festers! You say, “Ah but we are never alone, Little One. And the tree will be so sad if we don’t use it’s strong branches to play on. Come on! You are quite safe.”
Together, you run to the swing, laughing with abandon. The sense of freedom and relief at clearing this horrible belief is intoxicating. You smile and your whole self beams bright.
Noah’s Ark, one by one
The animals are quiet and peaceful, nuzzling one another and grazing on hay that is dotted around the wooden floor of the ark.
Waves lap gently as the spacious boat moves steadily up the river, carving a harmonious path through the water. The ebb and flow of life is in balance, all is well.
It’s scene of harmony, of different creatures that are all connected through their experience together of life on earth.
You walk with intention past each animal on the ark, pausing in wonder as wise, soul-filled eyes meet yours.
It is mending your tired heart.
The respect and trust that each creature has for one another emanates throughout the ark; bringing a powerful calm and sense of security.
It is a community of the creatures of earth. Together, united as one, there is untold colour and diversity and balance at play throughout our planet. It reminds you of the small role we each play in colouring our world, of the divine order of things that makes everything just so.
It is natural and right, and beautiful.
Find your inner torch
Stones press against your tread as you weave along the undulating clifftop top path, watching your step.Salty air and the undulating beat of the ocean are your walking companions: you pause and inhale with gusto, marvelling at the view.
This view from every angle is so rugged. Wild and beautiful.
Something sparks inside. A flicker of joy and inspiration. As you meditated your way along the path, clear-headed thanks to the exercise and fresh air, you were dwelling on what you love to it. It was that simple. And in the dwelling, a light turned on inside of you. Pow! Your eyes fix on the lighthouse; your destination on this particular day.
How wonderful, you think, a lighthouse is the perfect metaphor!
Because you realise that you’d constructed the lighthouse inside of you long ago, in playful moments as a child, as you studied at school and as you daydreamed about how life could be while bored at work. The lighthouse is there for you, in all weather. All it asks for is that you focus on its light: that you move towards this light, spend time in its warmth.
Through accepting that these things you love are enough – then pouring attention and appreciation onto them – you know they are the things for you. They are your path!
Doubt flies into the wind that has whipped up around your ears. Your excitement at arriving at the lighthouse is palpable, as it represents this lightbulb moment in your life.
I know what I love to do, and I focus on this. That is all I need to do.
Walk into your future…
A gentle sea breeze catches my skin and nostrils. Alluring, beckoning me forward. Its salty waft speaks of potential paths and lives to live.
My future beckons. How do I want my future to be?
I panic, trying to force a well-formed answer... I do know I want to move forward. But I’m stuck, like a person in a painting. It looks picturesque, but was I really holding the brush that painted this still life? Was I?
Well, I decide, I’m holding the brush now. And time will move on, no matter my choice of future. The waves outside will continue to roll in, rhythmically counting time. It’s my landscape to paint – for I do not want to be trapped in a still life, I want to paint a vibrant life.
Choice made, I leap out of the open door. Jumping down the steps, onto the path: the tarot’s Fool never leapt so high!
I am leaping into potentiality; it is known to me, no fear of the unknown reside here. For as I run, my dreams come to meet me, and it is they who are this energy of potentiality. Old faithful, familiar friends. The urge to force a perfectly formed future evaporates, as my embrace tightens around these dream-strands that run free, uncaged and dancing in the ocean air. Weaving into a masterpiece called my future.
I am dream-weaving my beautiful life, made of moments of now and tiny details and simple yearnings. I keep weaving the strands, and the landscape of my future takes shape. I run towards it.
Island with Golden Sands
Look down at your toes as you tread the soft, golden sands. You wiggle them in a childlike, sensory moment of joy.
This is an island of dreams. The stuff fantasies are made of.
Am I allowed to be here?
Oh yes, you have the utmost permission to be here! In fact, there is a shell awaiting you here with the exact shape and markings to sit most beautifully by your bedside, reminding you of this fantastical, golden place. You are allowed to take the shell: you are allowed to be here.
Your senses awaken and now you hear with clarity the waves breaking beside you. Their rhythmic, unifying roll brings you a sense of certainty, and you relax, letting yourself sink into the sand and the earth below.
You do belong here.
This certainty brings you faith and in celebration you tilt your head to the golden sun, feeling its radiance light your heart center.
In the bliss of this golden place you realise that you, too, are worthy. You have always been worthy. As relaxation takes hold, feel yourself letting go of beliefs and thoughts that you’ve attached to. The sun dissolves them into a thousand tiny rays that dance into the sky, setting you free.
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