the need to express....

and I feel like I'm breathing again.....inhale...exhale. create.  


last night when I was making dinner....I halved a lime...and found....a beautiful juicy green...the finest exemplar of limes.  holy crap.   so I had to take a few pictures of it...and paint it.
 and...you thought I could only paint....ummm.... other fruit.  tsssk...tsssk.

and later on...reading...I found this...something so perfectly expressing something floating around my head like a cumulous cloud...
so....here I offer it...as a dot connector....sharing it in my space....remembering it and cherishing it...

"....the need to express who we are is archetypal; that is both necessary and timeless.  And expressing who we are is less about describing ourselves than it is about letting who we are out in a regular rhythm...that is as imperative as breathing.... "  (amen)

"It is this exchange or flow of who we are- in and out- that keeps us connected to all that is living...

Just as we must inhale and exhale hundreds of times a day, we must feel and express constantly.  When out of balance...we suffer...." 

"Ultimately, expressing who we are has a physics all its own...More than being understood, it is about not hiding our basic nature." 

"Essentially, the life of expression is the ongoing journey of how we heal each other...for by telling our stories and listening to the stories of others, we let out who we are and find ourselves in each other, and find that we are more together than alone."  (Mark Nepo, The Exquisite Risk: Daring to live an Authentic Life) 

Oh...and here is a preview of my palette....which I will post more detail about later....but...here, this is my house....my art house....and it just got stocked....and it's ready to rock.  :)  white is unopened...and shall stay where it is...white and unopened.

and basically a reflection of my house...chaos...but somehow out of it...people get fed...off to school- to start the day....and laugh....and dance to music....and art gets created.  :)

so...peace and love....and breathing....and living.....and creating....and expressing.

#kickass
#limes
#watercolors
#love