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Jeanette Martin's avatar

Love this image: "We are a native species somewhere. We just need to find out where."

Creating , expressing yourself in words or art or music or whatever form it takes for you, is a way to find out who you are, what you feel, where you belong.

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Neil Winward's avatar

Lots of great insights here. Here’s something I wrote on that just my 2c

Creating

It’s a special thing to create something

But not just anything will do

This thing is work drawn from the cave of consciousness

For me, it’s words and stories; thoughts and explanations

The narrative of navigating life is rich and endless – at least until I die

And after that the words live on – perhaps

Unless they simply die with me: evaporate and leave the world untouched

Perhaps that is the fear that drives me

The fear that everything I am and do; have done; will do

Amounts to nothing – I doubt it though

Relationships are interactive: they have a residue

That wraps itself around our lives – like kudzu

Which defies all regular attempts to remove it

Spreading, clinging – it just needs balance

When we are not where we should be, we fail to thrive or thrive too much

We are a native species somewhere

We just need to find out where

The relationships we travel through and with will help

Is this journey for ourselves or something greater?

The journey must start with me but not end there

If it does, I will have failed

And the residue will be inconsequential – a waste

Sometimes we don’t see what is right next to us

We don’t unwrap the gift that has been given to us

In the end it seems creating is not destroying

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