sweet liberty.....

this is a day early.... :)  I will be celebrating many things tomorrow....mostly just secretly in my heart because....I see what I've accomplished....and mostly...just grinning looking at how much I've grown as an artist....and as a person....and really....the person who will be celebrating all this the most is...me.


and here I am.....on the one year anniversary of my crazy adventure here on google...and a year of my odyssey....and a year of my vision quest....

and I can say...

the view is pretty great....and I've traveled a long way.   I recently saw a friend's picture....a family picture of a trip.....and when I saw it....I immediately thought...

not that I had traveler's envy....but I thought...

wow.  I'm on a pretty cool trip too....I just don't really have a picture for it, like- I don't have a picture posing in front of something, epic...

..and then I thought...


wait....

I have a whole blog of it.  a blog of my travels....and that's pretty epic.  :)  around....Spring, I felt....that I had reached a summit of some kind....I felt...as I measured how far I'd come....that I had reached....a smoother...plateau....yet...this plateau....was definitely higher than I'd ever been.....and as I gazed up at yet another summit...

it just felt good to hang out....for awhile.......before I set out on the next place....

I thought this appropriate for today.....because the colors...especially remind me of fireworks.....

and here I go.....packing up a bunch of stuff....and smiling at where I have come....and taking steps to the next.....every summit getting more and more .....just....awesomer.  It gives me butterflies to depart from what was before...and

reach for something.....more....

and that's what it's like....being in love with dropping off bags and traveling lighter and lighter....

healing....revealing....dropping fear.....replacing it with love.  Turns out....love is way lighter than fear.

and then.....

as if a full circle reminder.....I gazed over at my daughter's back pack...after I picked them up from camp today....

I tossed the packs in the front seat..... looked over at it...and saw.....


EMBARK.


epic.

peace and love....and a continuing to embrace the freedom...the liberation....I feel like....

I'm in great shape to be:


to be...

to be happy...
to be blissful....
to be expressive....
to be inspiring....

to reach out and help......

to be, love.

so here is to continuing.....on this vision quest.   eff ya.