First steps

Working on January's Take it Further Challenge, I followed the questions:
Ask yourself, who do you look up to and admire? Why? What is it that you admire about them? I decided to do a quick brainstorm and I identified three people close to me and 2 "famous" people with why I selected them:

1. sister (k) strength of character
2. friend (s) intellectually curious
3. husband (h) resilience
4. Oprah (o) follows her passion
5. Chihuly (c) artistic creativity

I've was wrestling with whether or not to add the color challenge as well and decide, why not. The five prism color pencil that I have that correlate are violet, true green, lilac, olive green and lime peel. Time to play!


Living consciously...

I've been looking at Sarah Ban Breathnach's Simple Abundance, as well as the Gay Hendricks' A Year of Living Consciously and both books seem to echo the same sentiment for the day: the authentic self lies waiting within. Yeah, I got that. And I also know that roles and responsibilities over the years have bridled and constrained that self as well. As much as I want to pretend that it happened to me, I was in collusion with the conspiracy to keep the authentic self within. Now, as I continue to embark on the release that authentic self, I peel back a layer to discover that it is timid, angry, unsure, frustrated, etc. - awash with feelings of being confined. At this point, Hendricks would say "You are your feelings and your feelings are you." No, duh. What I'm trying to understand, what layer of me prickled when I read the word "fun" - the outside crust that has formed over the years or the authentic self who's forgotten how to play?

Tally Ho.