Breathing Life Into the Artist, Episode 440
Our 440th episode considers what it is for each of us to dare to bring our unique form of expression to the world. How we might take the ways we've learned to belong in our lives - which may have supported us and constrained us - and give enough space around them that we can be our own voice, rather than an echo; what ways of supporting one another are called for, so we can help one another do this; the kind of openness, curiosity, sensitivity, welcome and daring it can take to encourage others to be a voice of their own; and how welcoming in this way might be a way to learn and at the same time an act of deep service to life.
This week's Turning Towards Life hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
Our source for this week:
The Artist
Breathing life into the artist
Is a deadly mission.
It will cost you this version of yourself,
perfect and all knowing.
As you die, tell me
what’s it to cry with curiosity?
To write with your frightening tears?
To feel fully?
This is what it is to breathe life into your words.
Becoming the artist is a deadly mission.
To roll the stone away and be alive in your truth takes an everydayness.
We practice and build,
We fall and find our feet,
We create masterpieces,
We wash them away.
I know you worked so hard
on this sense making,
Those sensible makings have carried you.
But still I ask.
What is this world without your art?
How do you love without your truth?
Bobby Morrow
Photo by Simi Iluyomade on Unsplash