“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” 
― Frida Kahlo

Creating art from pain, shaping stories from torn flesh and broken bones. Healing is progress not towards normalcy, as my health (physical and mental) will never be normal (whose is?). Healing is progression to authenticity, to singing aloud, to creating and adding and becoming part of the chiaroscurro of pain and joy to the world. When pain occurs, our bodies are mindfully alive-- mindful to death. Respecting death with all of life's wonder.
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Telling one's story is not narcissism; it is birth and truth. To tell a story that does not spring from the heart, the mud, is cliche (big media) and cliche is not death, it is static. 

Enjoy the darkness, the cover of shade,
that lets one close and dream bruised dreams
or stir, eyes wide, in comforting cloak.
Both lives dangerous, both lives staid.

The longest night hugs the briefest day,
curtains shrouding this one act play.
Melancholy flee, Mundanity undone,
Winter's first step is towards the sun.

*Today I felt like scribbling a bit of poetry...​