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Curvy Road Ahead

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Felicia Sullivan wrote a beautiful post today. My favourite bit:

"because the path's not always linear, no matter how much we want it to be. and i'm learning this - in yoga, in writing, in life - by degrees. and maybe when it's when we move towards uncertainty, towards indecision, that we find clarity. it's only when we dive headfirst into the dark water, can we really rise up and see light."

She would know about paths not being linear; she's got one of the most beautiful, curvy lives I've ever met. When I first met her, she was working for a big, corporate company in NY. She was also a Republican. She quit her job to write a novel and became an eco-loving Democrat along the way. She runs the amazing publication Small Spiral Notebook and supports artists like mad. Her writing, by the way, is beautiful. It's stunned me, it's made me cry, opened my eyes and sometimes even made me pee my pants.

I'm sure had I asked her a few years ago when we met what she thought the next few years would be, it wouldn't match the reality of what her life has become. Likewise had she asked me.

Creative people, we create. We create beauty, drama, paths, life, jobs, challenges, pain, laughter. There's nothing linear about that. There's nothing linear about life. We just keep moving, things get clearer and we change to accommodate that. Slowly sometimes, fast others, but never straight.

Curvy, windey, wonderful.

July 12, 2006 | Link to this | Filed in Links & Adorations

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