“I was a maître d’ at a restaurant for thirteen years. But one week I got a really bad case of pneumonia that put me in the hospital. While I was lying in that hospital bed, I was thinking about how I really didn’t want to go back to work. Then that motivational speaker came on TV. You know– the one that has all those teeth in his mouth. And he said: ‘Think back to what made you happy when you were young! That’s what you should be doing!’ Well I grew up in the country, and I always had a lot of dogs, so I thought that nothing would make me happier than to be a dog walker. But I knew I needed to distinguish myself. So I decided to make a uniform. I smoked a joint and came up with this outfit. I wanted people to look at me and think: ‘If this man is walking our dog, and there’s some sort of major disaster, he’s going to survive. He’s going to fish for those dogs. He’s going to build a bunker and shelter those dogs until it’s safe to bring them home.’ After I finished the design, I got four of my friends to wear the uniform, and we borrowed all the neighbors’ dogs, and we walked them down 5th avenue while handing out business cards. I got five customers that first day.”
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The Creative Call & What It Means To Honor It.
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Come, let me take you on a journey.
It’s a journey into the depths of who you are. It’s a new path, yet it is hauntingly familiar.
Come now, for we must go. The creative call is beckoning…
You ask what it means to honor the call? What it means to awaken the ardor?
Oh, but it’s a dance. A rushing, racing, high, a plummeting low… an unraveling. It’s tearing yourself apart so you can examine the individual fragments. Understand their contribution. Recognize their worth.
It’s forgetting what they told you. What they taught you. It’s the stark, bare canvas that dares you to come and make your mark.
It’s wandering and wondering and seeing layers and illusions and perceptions and shifts. Feeling textures. Tasting syllables.
To honor the call is to take drive and purpose and passion, and weave them with hurt and loss. With hope and grief. A rich melody of every emotion.
At times it hurts like a hell that’s frozen over with a blaze still burning inside. Fire and ice all at once.
It’s breaking your heart in a thousand different ways, but seeking a channel to share that pain. It’s letting the fever run high. Allowing the wound to be raw.
The creative call is the connection of everything that’s real and imagined. All the lying truths that seem to have a different story if you just change the angle, just modify the light. Slightly. Almost imperceptibly.
It’s flying through clouds, drunk with elation. Having free rein in the wild, witching sky.
It’s the moment before the crash. The frozen stillness before the explosion. Not looking away when the collision comes. Bearing witness to the point of impact and noticing.
Noticing…
What splinters?
What spills?
What survives?
The creative call is the ecstasy born of the agony. An insistent ache that gathers urgency. A glorious misery that will not tolerate being ignored.
It is the dark beauty of a night black enough to give the stars a brighter brilliance.
To answer the call is to stand at the edge without knowing if you’ll take the tumble. Yet, all the while, being quite unable to take steps back to safety because getting to this point took all you had. Every devastating drop.
It’s daring.
Dreaming.
Desiring.
The creative call is a rebellion. A revolution. A refusal to fit into a groove that isn’t the shape of your scalding soul. It’s letting all your colors fall out without restraint. It’s taking the flavor and changing the label. An arousal of a palate ready for sustenance.
It is the self-doubt that’s never a stranger and never a friend.
To honor the call is to harness what’s in between. What hangs in the balance. It’s a pause. A moment between now and next. It’s nothing and it’s everything. A sound and a feeling. Nowhere and everywhere. Free flowing. Gliding. The second the core is captured, it loses a touch of something. Its essence never fully ensnared.
To answer the creative call is to embark on an exploration of everything that is seen and unseen. A magnificent emergence of possibility and potential.
It’s the knowledge that freedom lives on the other side of fury. Riding the rage in order to release the beauty. Plunging into parts of a spectrum that you never even knew existed.
It’s the stain of everything that cannot be washed off, of everything that isn’t disposable. It’s the story that will find, that must find, a way to be told.
You can feel it, can’t you? Yes, your eyes tell me that you do.
But come now, for we must go, the creative call is beckoning…
*****
Skylar Liberty Rose is a writer and an empowerment warrior. She is the creator of Fierce Females which she established as a way of celebrating the female spirit and to encourage women to live to their full potential, rather than playing small. Having found her own freedom by releasing limiting beliefs, Skylar seeks to provide others with tools they can use to empower themselves. She is an advocate of stripping away layers of conditioning and instead discovering the unique truth within. Creativity is her meditation. Skylar is inspired by courageous hearts and creative souls. She grew up in London and now lives in New York City with her husband. You can connect with her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google+ and via her website.
Uber-Nationalism = conflict or more democracy?
Catalan secessionist success in next Sunday’s elections would give a boost to European ethnic separatisms, represented by the German Green Party’s partner organization, EFA. All major EU countries, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Poland would be affected – all, except Germany. In terms of power policy, Germany would profit from this development – unless an uncontrolled escalation can be prevented. This cannot be taken for granted, when looking at the various cases of national disintegration that have been taking place in Europe over the past twenty-five years.
Source: www.german-foreign-policy.com
Yogi Berra RIP at 90
In his 19-year career, he played in 14 World Series and was on the winning team 10 times — records unmatched by any baseball player.
Source: Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis – The Washington Post
Smoking, alcohol and obesity blemish Europe’s progress in reducing premature mortality
The World Health Organization has announced that despite declining smoking and alcohol consumption rates, Europeans were still the heaviest smokers and drinkers in the world. The report also addressed growing obesity.
Source: Smoking, alcohol and obesity blemish Europe’s progress in reducing premature mortality
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35 Rare Vintage Photos of the First Chinese American Movie Star Anna May Wong in the 1920s-30s
Here are some rare vintage photos of beautiful Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American movie star, also the first Asian American actress in the 1920s-30s.
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