"Moon Beam" 2008"So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a brand new year, and I am so thankful to be alive. To see it, to taste the wind of change the has so charged the air... Not only because of Washington and Wall Street, but, because many seem to be raising their heads above the pack finally, to take note of the incredible changes impacting the environment and communities around the globe. There is nothing as invigorating as change.... The really good thing about it is it removes the comfort zone, and forces us to reassess, making new discoveries along the way as we go in search of a new comfort zone. The other day I saw printed or heard that difficult circumstances are only there to weed out the people who really don't want the prize badly enough (my version of what was said).
Like many other people I find myself in the position of needing to reinvent myself -- somewhat. I am an artist it is all I really know. Since the age of eighteen, I have worked in some capacity or another in the field of art. Illustrator, muralist, graphic designer, painter, sculptor... I have been blessed to be able to work with my hands. To create, build, explore, to find confidence even in that which I do best. It is the assurance that I have been using the gifts given to me. And yet I confess, that, I know that the path to my own genius such as it is has had to battle with making a living, insuring that I have medical benefits, and the big one, a late life marriage that came packaged with an enormous family -- that is still growing.
...My New Year's resolution is to just do the work. It seems I will never have all the time and resources I need to do it the way I think it should be done anyway. So I am making a commitment to myself, to just do the work. Believing that what I create will sustain me and be of benefit to others. That's my confession of faith. I believe I have something to offer the earth, and there is "place" waiting for me, I just have to do the work to the best of my ability, and "place" will open to me. And, my other belief, that what I need "place" will come to me, as I take the time to help others.
Someone once told me -- "Rosalind, you're always changing" -- I hope that will always be true. A life without change is a life that's just wasting time. I am challenging myself this year to make real conscious decisions about my work and about how I help others. In the months to come I hope you will see my commitment in the activities of TEAWINGS Post... "Moon Beam" is a name my grandmother called me as a child -- among others. My memory association to that name reminds me that anything is possible if I apply myself. So it is the image I choose to mark this moment.
Many Blessings, for a fruitful and real New Year
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