Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Cracked Pots

Today a friend and I visited a beautiful garden art fair called Cracked Pots where all of the artwork was made from at least 75% recycled material. We were enchanted. There were fairies on trellises and dragons and robots made from old tools and scrap metal. Pathways of china plate flowers and goddesses in various shapes and forms.
We wandered the shady paths surrounded by creatures that had sprung to life at the hands of creators who had magically taken the cast-offs of society and brought forth the beauty that lay within.
 We were amazed at the ingenuity and creativity of the artists. Not just their insight to see the unseen within, but their know-how to put this and that together in exactly the right way.
As usual, I can't go anywhere or do anything without looking for the "signs" and as I flipped through my pictures on the computer this evening I thought about how we make so many decisions in life that change the course of destiny. Choices that we didn't even know we were making at the time, or perhaps didn't realize was a choice because we didn't know there were other options. And then we reach a certain place or a certain age or a certain set of circumstances and we wish we could change things. Things that have come into existence because we set it into motion a bzillion years ago.

And while there may be some things you can change now, patterns you can break, new ways of being you can adopt, you can't ever undo who you are and what has happened because of those choices. But walking around that garden today, seeing all those pieces of life recycled, redesigned, reused into something completely different and infinitely bigger than the sum of it's parts - it gives me hope that creating a life is like that too.
You can be the beautiful You you wish you were by recycling and combining the various bits and pieces into something that is incredibly cooler than the individual pieces were before. You can wish that you could completely get rid of the ugly stuff - just throw it away - but the truth is it doesn't go away, its part of who you are and if you ignore it just sits in a great spiritual landfill and turns your life into a wasteland. But if you decide to love and forgive and accept and move forward, you can combine all those pieces of your soul into whatever it is that you see within.
You can be the artist who sees the beauty within the cast offs and creates something that is infinitely bigger, stronger, better, more whole and beautiful than the sum of its parts. Moving forward doesn't necessarily mean leaving pieces of yourself behind, it just means you're repurposing them. Wow. There's a lot of Grace there.
This was an incredibly Red day.  Here was one of our favorites - a beautiful goddess form, next to one of her creators.
We had the Reddest Day Ever - hope you do too!

In Grace,

Kell

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