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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Passion Interrupted

I had every intention of posting at least monthly, following my progression into more artful expression, but life is as ever filled with detours and the unexpected.  April was yet another month filled with artistic interpretation including a multi media book I wrote and created for my daughter using the metaphor of the life of a tree to explain my own life journey.  I dabbled with assemblage and worked on memory stones for my yard in Taos.  Then April 27th simply walking from one room to another in my socks on the wood floors (bad idea) I slipped and fell hard thoroughly breaking both bones of my right wrist.  Ouch!!! - but worse than the pain and inconvenience of a cast was the immediate halt to my artistic expression - it was like hitting a wall.  After the initial series of casts and manipulations of my damaged wrist (double Ouch!!!) I was able to at least decorate the cast with the help of a friend.  As I settled into a very quiet four week stretch, punctuated by two long planned trips, I came to see this as an opportunity to develop other parts of myself as my left hand grew a bit more adept and my right fingers tried to work in ways they had not before.  I am still in a cast, this one I decorated completely by myself - pictured here.  I found ways to work with the pain and started moving my twisted right hand in ways that allowed me to once again hold scissors, paint, write and work.  It is slow going and I am counting the seconds until the cast is off.  I have physical therapy ahead and a long time before I can do full yoga again, but I am curious to see how the development of new parts of me might express itself once I am more functional.  The physcial experience of having one part shut down is a great metaphor for how our lives continually shift and how we must navigate our way through losses and changes. Somehow, we just keep going as we constantly challenge ourselves to find more within and to tap undeveloped potential.  If we are open to it we may find the development of our less used parts leads to a more fully lived life.