Monday, October 1, 2007

About Me

I am alive... The air I breathe thickens by the moment with the passion of existence and the beauty of the unknown. I float on a wave of awe and curiosity that does not consume me, but elevates me.

I seek not to conquer the world, but to realize my place in it, my part in the infinite fabric of existence through my finite rooted experience in this realm, in this reality, in this earth-organism.

I am woman, I am the sacred feminine, and in me is housed "that sense of living one's deepest life underwater, that dark involvement with blood and birth and death." Someday I will be giver of life.

I accept my biology, my rootedness in this physical reality. I am not a slave to my genetic impulses nor to my bloodmemory that reaches back millenia into the lives that through the passage of time and aggression and love and drift gave way to my own. Rather, I embrace them. I am compelled to seek a morality that is both evolutionarily rooted and progressively utopia-bound.

This dichotomy is sacred, and as humanity forges on, I hope it can embrace its natural rootedness in the natural world while reconciling our infinite consciousness, our capability for transcendence.
This is my dream.
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QUOTES:

“Pain passes but the beauty remains.”
~Pierre Auguste Renoir


“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen in a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of man. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, but always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life; I found it worth living.”
~Bertrand Russell.


“Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry."
~Mark Twain


In a cosmos of billions of galaxies,
In a galaxy of billions of stars,
There's a planet with billions of people~
The only one we know of~
And every breath we breathe is a miracle.
Our hearts pump.
We see.
We feel.
We taste.
We touch our world.
And sometimes we forget the pure wonder
Of our brief journey on earth.
My life is committed to making artwork,
That wakes people up to the miracle of life.
The value of being human
And the transformative power of love.
There are moments when we see behind
The opaque curtain of life.
When the infinite One
Shines through the skin of the beloved,
And we recognize the game we are in,
The journey we are on,
The powerful beings that we are
And the truth that is worth living for.
~Alex Grey, Artist