What fairytale entraps? What song lifts the soul? What myth is an audience spellbound by? What story liberates? What story binds? What mythological truth is yours alone? What drawing, painting, image liberates? What is the story you were meant to tell that fills the void, resolves questions, helps others, serves the universe? How do you follow the bread crumbs, the symbols, the dreams, and climb your way out into Self actualization? Self realization?
“Each of us is living out a myth whenever we are brought down by our fatal flaws (Achilles); our naïve exuberance (Icarus); when our curiosities get the better of us (Pandora); when we’re engaged in futile effort (Sisyphus); when we take the weight of the world on our shoulders (Atlas): when we’re self-centered (Narcissus): when we imagine ourselves invincible (Superman or Wonder Woman); when we’re undone by our own anger (Ahab); or when we run from a calling (Jonah)."
—Gregg Levoy, Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life (Three Rivers P, 1997, p 139)
At Siana Springs, I felt I found a moment of respite from the cares of the world. It was if I had come to the end of, high over the vastness of Kenya, and was only to look back, reflect, wonder... Continue Reading
For several centuries now, people have longed to know what the ancient painters of the rocks and walls of this vast continent were expressing. In the last twenty years or so, the Bushmen of the Kalahari have shared their artwork... Continue Reading
