9 POETIC
PRINCIPLES
Uh....That's your poetic life. Always nudging you.
THAT IS the Real you. THE YOU underneath all the heartache, the fear, the
time-&-money excuses.
How do I know?
I've been where you are. I've felt the "There's gotta be more."
I've felt the "I know I have an amazing life BUT..."
I've felt the "I crave something I can't seem to find or figure out."
I've even felt the hopeless dread "Something has *%$&ing got to change!"
My friends and family will tell you I've always been a FREE SPIRIT! but I will tell you when it looked like I was most free— living in the big & beautiful city of Chicago; going to an amazing art school; moving to Denver to get a Ph.D. in a subject I LOVE; traveling all around this glorious earth— I felt trapped, unfulfilled and very disconnected from my my deeper why.
I now GET it:
"Wherever you go, there you are."
—Jon Kabat-Zinn
You take yourself with you... so, I bought all the self-help books a girl could buy. I devoured every page. I meditated. Prayed. Drank sugarless green juice and honeyless green tea. I soaked with crystals in my bathwater. Hit the yoga mat. Hired a shaman. As I was doing all this "inner self-help searching" I realized, THIS: what all the spiritual teachers are encouraging me to do, is what poetry (my Great love, my deepest study) teaches best. I already know how to do this, I just needed to make my life, my art.
I AM A POETIC SOUL who has to EXPERIENCE, EXPERIMENT & WRITE MY UNIQUE JOY. FIND MY OWN TRUTH & MEANING IN THIS LIFE. I WANT TO ACTUALLY FEEL WELLBEING TO BE well and being.
And every. single. person. IS A POETIC SOUL.
If you're here and reading this...
It's time you make your life, your art.
I would love to guide you on your own poetic path. I am confident creative living is what you've been searching for.