“She Thrives
No Matter What” This Messenger of Love tells me: “Begin again. Remember your first love, your first job,
your first trip around the world. It’s a
new day, literally and spiritually and every way possible. Every dawn is a gift of renewal, a chance to
begin again, to do better than yesterday.”
I tried to
make this Messenger of Love a perfect beauty, delicate and lovely with her blue
hair. She would have none of it. So I
painted over the entire panel with titanium white. Then I scraped and rubbed away areas of her
face and shoulders.
She said: “There! This is how I like it. Of course, I’m perfect in spirit. But as a human, I’m like a painting on a cave
wall. I peel and fade and lose my brilliance. Then I take myself to the spa, on a retreat,
or start a new relationship. I’m revived,
brand new again, ready for all the challenges and opportunities before me. I continue to thrive no matter what.”
Her blessing
for you: “May you thrive no matter what.
If you have to redirect your life a dozen times over, may you still remember
that you are born to thrive, to endure, no matter what. Your body may shrink and wrinkle, but the
light within you never fades!”
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Mixed-media
on 11” X 14” Ampersand panel.
©Claudia
Rose, Ph.D.
