I also listened to I'm Blue, by Eiffel 65 and it was fun. I looked up the meaning of the lyrics because I like to do stuff like that and the song facts for this song was pretty cool. Check it out here.
Plus, I'm in a fabulous mood because 1. I had an awesome dream about someone who is constantly on my mind :) 2. The book, Simple Abundance, is totally helping my authentic self come out, yes I am so happy and grateful for that :) 3. I'm repenting, changing, turning to God and trying to be the daughter that He wants me to be. 4. I got a letter from my friends, Bryce, who is currently serving a mission in New York! Yeah baby! And I'm really excited to continue to write him and better develop our friendship :) 5. I did my homework last night and I got really excited to do it today, in fact, I already submitted it online! Usually I do it at night, like 9 or later...but today I did it before 3pm, that's great news for me!!! I really am so excited about life, I really do love life, yeah, sometimes I fall down, but that doesn't mean that life is over, it's a just a down/low time :) Life is a roller coaster, but I am learning that it's not as dramatic and scary as I once thought it was; instead, it's actually quite enjoyable :) It's still scary, but it's a healthy and adventurous scary - the kind that makes you get out of your comfort zone and really experience life and really feel the ocean breeze on your hot and sweaty face, but wait, you're in Rexburg, Idaho :) I love life :) And even though I may not know what all the future has to offer me, I am still looking forward to it because it is an adventure and I LOVE adventures!!!!!!!
Taken from Simple Abundance: A Day book of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach, February 7
An Artist Is Someone Who Creates
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how...The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
-Agnes De Mille
Most of us feel more secure when we play it safe. We wear a string of pearls, for example, instead of the hand-painted glass beads we glimpsed and passes up at the crafts fair. Yet it is precisely those read and purple glass beads around the neck of another woman that stop us dead in our tracks. "Wow," we mumble as we pass her on the street, "that looks fantastic." We also wonder how she knew it would.
She probably didn't. She probably just took a leap in the dark and trusted her instincts. She trusted her own sense of style. The necklace whispered "Try me!" and she listened. She played at living - in a small way to be sure, but relevant all the same - by taking a chance.
Every day we're given chances to embrace the new. It could be serving focaccia at dinner tonight instead of garlic bread. It could be choosing a pair of floral socks that make our feet want to dance, instead of the plain pair we automatically reach for. It could be trading in the headband for a short, sleek sophisticated cut that really feels right.
Psychologist Susan Jeffers suggests we "take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that makes you feel great once you have done it." Today, take a real risk that can change your life: start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made to the rough draft during rewrites. Another color can be added to the canvas. The film can be tightened during editing. Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful authentic life you are creating for yourself and those you love is your art. It's the highest art. "Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable," writer Brenda Ueland reminds you.
Hold that thought.
Ok, so I had to include this snippet from this book because this is one reason why I am oh so happy this joyful day, even though it's cold outside - though I hardly noticed - and it's a lot of thanks to this book and for this wonderful woman who is allowing other women to let their authentic self come out :) The lines marked in red are the ones that especially stood out to me this morning as I read them.
I am being me, Megan DeVocht and I absolutely love it!!! And this is all so new to me so of course I'm going to fall down a few times here and there and it's getting back up that really says who I am.
"Music is the heartbeat to life." Without music, life would be so dull. Music adds color to our gray lives :) Both participating in making music and also the art of listening to music and letting all of it speak to your soul, being completely open and allowing it to fill your whole being.
