This is How I Dare

SARK asks women everywhere how we dare to be creatively fulfilled and successful? Her answer is “Because you have wonders inside that must be let loose, that is how you dare.”

This website is how I dare to live my creative dream each and every day. I accept that my dream and this blog will have days full of inspiration, insight, and laughter and I also accept that this blog will have days full of mistakes, detours, and the inability to impact anyone. I accept the entire package knowing I am living my dream and practicing the art of life balance.

A very wise woman introduced the following poem to me. I suggest printing it and reading it out loud as if you had written each and every word yourself.

Please comment on your emotional response to this exercise and poem.

So Much Happiness
by Naomi Shihab Nye

“It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.
With sadness there is something to rub against,
a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.
When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up,
something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change.

But happiness floats.
It doesn’t need you to hold it down.
It doesn’t need anything.
Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing,
and disappears when it wants to.
You are happy either way.
Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house
and now live over a quarry of noise and dust
cannot make you unhappy.
Everything has a life of its own,
it too could wake up filled with possibilities
of coffee cake and ripe peaches,
and love even the floor which needs to be swept,
the soiled linens and scratched records…..

Since there is no place large enough
to contain so much happiness,
you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you
into everything you touch. You are not responsible.
You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit
for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it,
and in that way, be known.”