Instagram Inspiration

It's actually never happened to me before. There I was planted on the couch watching tv and as the regularly scheduled program goes to commercial I pick up my iPhone and check my Instagram account. I'm scrolling through my feed and I see a lovely photo of clouds posted by a friend. Big billowy clouds that are crossing paths and behind them the sun trying to break through. Some might call it a moodygram?! I'm automatically inspired and start thinking words about clouds breaking and I did something I've never done, I hit "comment" and type out with my forefinger on the small iPhone keyboard a little stream of consciousness poem to my friend. I push "enter" and my comment snaps open in the comments section! I immediately think to myself "gosh I hope she doesn't think I'm a total nut?!". My friend responds pretty quickly that she thinks it's beautiful and comments on how hope is a powerful thing. I'm glad she likes it but part of me was still worried that I crossed some weird comment etiquette boundary?! Anywho, here it is and next time I think I might just keep my poem to myself!

Beckoning clouds scatter across the sky
as I await the rays of the sun
to filter through and make their way to my soul
with the hope
that they fill me with enough light
to make it through another day.

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Harboring regret

Treading the Election and Life

Tuesday, November 8, 2016 I sat on the couch Election Night feeling more anxiety than I had ever known. I didn’t want to believe what was happening but there it was right before my eyes, the electoral map, on my local NBC channel looking like someone wrapped it in red Christmas paper. I tried to stay hopeful and kept repeating in my head "Hillary, Hillary, Hillary". I managed a quick nap around midnight, holding out hope that Lovey would wake me up and say “She did it, Hillary is President!” but it never happened. I woke up about 15 minutes later and it ended up that I was the one nudging her awake around 1am/1:30 saying “let’s go to bed, it’s not looking good” just after they called Florida to the other side. So we frumped our way upstairs to bed where I lay wide awake for a long time with my mind all a whir. The next day I was feeling very disappointed so I limited my social media browsing and did not watch the news except to see Hillary’s speech, which made me cry.

"Lifted" the video and poem dedicated to Sisterhood

I wrote this poem after spending an hour with a few of my female artistic friends. We discussed poetry, art, life, and when I got home I felt this overwhelming feeling of inspiration and joy! Yes! Joy! It's like we all shared our energy while we were together. I just had to write my feelings down. The words came out of me so easily thinking of my own Sisters and the friends I consider to be Sisters from other Misters. I wrote the poem in one sitting and a few weeks later I got the idea to record my voice reading it and create a video using photos. I put a call out on my facebook feed and asked female friends to send me photos of themselves with their Sisters or with their BFFs that they considered Sisters or with women they were inspired by. The ladies sent me some great images and I used a bunch of my own for fill ins to create this video. This is definitely one of those labor of love or labor of inspiration times. Please watch and share! Words are posted below.

Words and Pieces

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