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Excitement And Other Things

One of many mind states repeatedly touched upon...

Moon Rising

I was thinking about excitement, the prompt for this week, and how it's relative. For an artist, a brand new box of caran d'arche crayons is exciting, to a chef, finding the perfect spices or recipe is exciting, to the mother of the bride, finding the perfect shoes to match the dress is exciting.  Watching the moon rise over the mountain outside my window is always an amazing, thrilling, exciting thing for me.  And that same moon is the moon everyone in the whole world sees.

Cupcake Wins

New prompt: excitement.  Well what's more exciting than making a decision? Sweet.

Broccoli Or Cupcake?

Ah what shall it be?  Weighing my options...

Now And Then

Balance has a lot to do with being present, grounded, here in the moment.  This text animation points me to being here right now, and shows me how I can be distracted by past and future.  Watching this again, I realize it's a little longer than my attention span can manage and I start drifting...interesting how challenging it is just to pay attention to NOW.

Balancing Breath

Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale...

Balancing Meditator

Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth goes the little meditator...trying to find balance on the cushion.

Love Doubt

Continuing with my theme of 'doubt' and 'balance' as this weeks prompt...I've made yet another little animation in image ready.  Should I(thank you Margaret for being my model)stand on doubt? or love? or just love the doubt? or doubt the love?

Feeling Secure

'Delicate Balance' is the prompt this week.  Now what is that? What does that feel like?  I found this cartoon I'd made a long time ago and just animated it for today's post.  Maybe this is about delicately balancing my heart.  Maybe it's about letting go of doubt.  Maybe it's about feeling more confident and secure.  Maybe it's about  trusting my heart.  Maybe it's about faith.  Maybe those are all the same.

Faith

I noticed my little box of faith has this added element...it's made without a doubt.   I think of faith as that thing that I deeply believe in...a dream I want to manifest or  a healing modality or philosophy that makes sense to me.  Faith is like having confidence in what I love. Without a doubt.

I Can't I Can

I made this drawing many years ago. It's still a great reminder for me.  Although I do need it in front of my face or else I forget.

Doubting Directions

When I made this little sketch at first I had words "this way" inside the red arrow, but then realized, like following the heart, there may be no words, just a feeling, or image what to do.  The words confuse my impulse.  Which in this cartoon is to "listen" to the red arrow pointing a certain way.

Sitting With Doubt

I made this in keynote and translated to quicktime.  My little meditator.  So cute how he just sits there and takes it all.  And lets it all go.  Good little meditator.

No Doubt

Thought I shouldn't leave you all 'in doubt'...this is the other side of doubt, the kinder, softer, heart place...

Consumed By Doubt

 "NO.  NOT GOOD ENOUGH.  FORGET IT."  This is doubt (the thing I'm exploring this week).  I wondered  if these doubting  thoughts about what to draw or do, affect the larger ME.  Do they teach me I am not good enough? that what I do, think, feel isn't right, or good.   that I am all wrong?  By focusing on doubt, I give it my attention.  I stop making it wrong.  I accept it as energy, interesting, alive stuff. (I'm thinking this kind of acceptance translates into me seeing myself as interesting, alive stuff).   Doubt causes me a lot of suffering.  And I also see that  putting it on paper, I can make art out of it.  My curiosity about it opens my heart, and my mind.  I'm  feeling a little bit kinder and softer about this part of me.  Kind of magical. I love seeing what's really going on in my mind. It's funny.

Doubt

What have I done?  Given a prompt to focus on one thing this week.  But what is the ONE THING I should choose?  I sat down to look, feel, decide and just got overwhelmingly confused.  Seems I doubted everything I thought of.  That doubt was so loud and so clear I decided IT wanted my attention and so...doubt is my thing this week.  Here is what it looked like and sounded like today.  A lot of 'no, not that'.

Bottles

Glasses

I like this, finding shape, coloring it in.  

Soap Boxes

I took an ordinary box from the recycle bin and focusing on shapes, colored it the way I wanted.  Is that alchemy?  Is imagination alchemy?  If something I value comes out of imagination, I suppose it is.  Or maybe not.

What Life Handed Me

Alchemy...taking the ordinary, mundane and transforming it into something of value!

Cardboard Heart

Alchemy...transforming the ordinary into something of value.  I painted this heart today for open mic nite set , the theme is love.  It's  a refrigerator box ( cardboard) which I love painting on.  Now it's a painted heart.

Heart Beat

I missed a few days posting...so here is another.   Love has the ability to  transform  everything...especially if I feel it.

Alien Beings Discover Common Ground

Alchemy...moving from my world into a bigger world.