“Picture yourself when you were five. In fact, dig out a photo of little you at that time and tape it to your mirror. How would you treat her, love her, feed her? How would you nurture her if you were the mother of little you? I bet you would protect her fiercely while giving her space to spread her itty-bitty wings. She’d get naps, healthy food, imagination time, and adventures into the wild. If playground bullies hurt her feelings, you’d hug her tears away and give her perspective. When tantrums or meltdowns turned her into a poltergeist, you’d demand a loving time-out in the naughty chair. From this day forward I want you to extend that same compassion to your adult self.”—
Kris Carr
self portrait (04/08/13)
Mhusurat April’s Altar: Visualizing Rebuilding my Altar to my Inner Child. Receiving direction from the Earth in the sweetest way. I (am learning to)love her sooo much….because SHE needs me. Traveling backwards: “Time” bends and moves to our command….. We can gently guide time; we are magical in this way. CHeers!
“When we speak of Nature it is wrong to forget that we are ourselves a part of Nature. We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.”
Henri Matisse. Artist, painter
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