My life's work is Her
This was posted on Facebook by a fellow-photographer-seeker-and-deep-thinker, I changed his pronouns to be thought-provoking for us Goddesses...
"I've spent many years coming to peace with this wild creature.
There's been a storm inside her, as long as i can remember. Something untamed, something unpredictable. a mix of such powerful, shifting opposites.
She is learning to trust, she is learning patience, she is learning it's okay to be alone.
When people ask me about my life's work, I want to say: Her. She's my personal project.
I spend long hours carving through her hard places. I work to hollow her, so that someday the beauty I have found in her will be able to move easily in and out - a wind instrument, a home for something that breathes.
Before he died, asked what his message to the world was, ghandi said 'my life is my message'. I know of no more powerful artist's statement than that. I want to be able to say the same.
There are a million reasons not to do the work.
There are distractions of so many kinds, animal fears and hungers, that eat up my moments, leave me exhausted and confused.
And there is the pain. Letting go of pieces I thought were me, watching them fall away, is the hardest thing I have ever had to do.
But something is in there, still calling to me. I stand back up, I find my slow way, always, always in.