DAY 34

please excuse my silence, it's been a little hectic, to say the least.
a group of local artists are planning an exhibition to raise funds for orphans in the area. this event will take place tomorrow night, 3 May 2012 at 19h00, Stonehaven on Vaal.
i'm very excited!

i have been reading a book by clarissa pincola estes & these are the gems that i have gleaned from the journey. sharing some thoughts that i have been meditating on over the past 2 months. hoping that you in turn may be enriched.

• if we could realise that the work is to keep doing the work, we would be much more fierce & much more at peace!
• life & sacrifice go together. if you want to create, you have to sacrifice superficiality, some security, & often your desire to be liked, to draw up your most intense insights, your most far reaching visions.
• guard the treasures of your basic natures...
• it is not good to make choices when we are dazed, but we do.
• but, even if it is our own dismal choices that have blown us off course - too far from what we need - hold faith, for within the soul is the homing device. we all can find our way back.
• when not interfered with, the relationship between soul & spirit is one of perfect symmetry; each enriches the other in turn.
• we cannot overlook the fact that there is still much thieving & hamstringing of talents through cultural restriction & punishment of our natural wildish instincts.
• in the face of "too much' we gradually become dry, our hearts become tired, our energies become spare, & a mysterious longing for - we almost never have a name for it other than "a something" - rises up in us more & more.
• NOTHING MAKES THE LIGHT, THE WONDER, THE TREASURE STAND OUT SO WELL AS DARKNESS. night is when we are closer to ourselves, closer to essential ideas & feelings that do not register so much during the daylight hours.
• do not fear 'not knowing.'
• discontent is the secret door to significant & life-giving change.
• long ago the word alone was treated as two words, all one. it was also used as an oracle, as a way of listening to the inner self to solicit advice & guidance otherwise impossible in the din of daily life.

Comfort in the stillness of sound
by kleoniki vanos

To hamstring a horse
by kleoniki vanos

The butterfly spoke
by kleoniki vanos

• focus is composed of sensing, hearing, & following the directions of the soul-voice.
• in fairy tales, when something bad happens it means that something new has to be tried, a new energy has to be introduced, a helper, healer, magic force has to be consulted.
• your worn-out idea or endeavour can shine more brightly if you will take some of it & throw it away. it is the same idea as the sculptor removing more marble in order to reveal more of the hidden form beneath.
• to take a breath causes one to feel ones emotions, that when we wish not to feel we hold our breath instead.
• when laughter helps without doing harm, when laughter lightens, realigns, reorders, reasserts power & strength, this is the laughter that causes health.  when the laughter make people glad they are alive, happy to be here, more conscious of love, heightened with eros, when it lifts their sadness & severs them from anger, that is sacred.
• all emotion, even rage, carries knowledge, insight, what some call enlightenment.
• we want to use anger as a creative force. we want to use it to change, develop, & protect.
• when we are drawn to quests we know little about, this makes life & develops soul.
•  the important part of forgiveness is to begin & continue. the finishing of it all is a life work.
• your life may not have turned out to be a happily ever after, but most certainly there is now a fresh once upon a time waiting for you from this day forward.

Another country
by kleoniki vanos



• for the sake of your wild soul, it is better to cry.

Mannequin
by kleoniki vanos






till we meet again...