Sunday, July 14, 2013

Living in a Tousled Habitat

Open an Umbrella Over My Hats A-Plenty


I wear the artists hat, the environmentalists hat, the fashionistas hat and the crafters hat, and the "take life by the horns" and the adventurers hat. This is often compiled into just one favorite fedora that I wear. It works for me. I am so many things, and yet its simply me. 



I am all of those things, and being who I am means that they all fit seamlessly together. But how to create a space where all of these things, components, passions if you will, can play or mingle freely? Where I can share the things I learn, the things I yearn for and the travels and trials that I experience?




 I find that any place on the internet makes a great home for my many passions. My habitat is one that knows no bounds and is often messy, mixed and jumbled. Its tousled like hair that has blown in the wind on top of a mountain, taking in the breathtaking views. This habitat is tousled like after a day at a sandy beach, or a day its been pulled back in a bandana while crafting away.





This life feels tousled to me all the time. Its never a clear straight path, there is work to be done to clear it, to shape it and to make the right plants grow.

We need to find the seeds and then plant them at the right season in the right kind of light.

And while I genuinely love this type of thinking about plants, I also like to think of life this way. A life which we can dream what we want to live. Do I want to create? Do I want to be the girl who makes things and becomes a stay at home crafter? What type of future do I see?


 And the beauty is that its all open.  The experience is there. We need to soak it in, without getting burned. We need to make the right mistakes and learn what we can from them. And most of all we need to keep loving for the sake of it. For the pure life blood it generates to this planet.

The limits we make up in our heads do not exist beyond our minds. We have the ability to keep them there if we want to feel bored and comfortable like that, or we can choose to say, "Fuck that. I don't want to follow the system. I want to be a artist, and discover the artistic gift that rings true for ME.

I've been traveling. I've begun to understand the true size of the planet, which is just impossible to do without doing it. Without immersing your self in its size. Allowing yourself to become a speck in the universe. We do this through travel. It takes our visual ability from this: [our life]  to this
                                                                                                                                                                                                  




 Peace for now. This is just an introduction.

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