Arts4Evolution

For those of you looking for an expressive movement option in Louisville:

Doug VanHouten is hosting

ECSTATIC DANCE in Louisville, KY
March 29, 7:00 – 9:00-ish pm
Hearts Content Healing Arts (Above Carmichaels Bookstore)
2720 Frankfort Ave.
Suggested Donation $10-15
Bring your own water bottle

Creative Arts Therapy May Reduce Stress and Turnover Among Health Care Professionals Research by Marc Moss, MD, demonstrates that health care professionals who participated in creative arts therapy reported lowered rates of stress and anxiety.

For those of us who Wander…for Wonder

I had to get lost
to find God

I had to fall off the edge of the map
to find a home that changes its address
every time I take another step forward

I spent most of my life searching
for peace by walking the same
worn path that everyone else
was taking

I was marching with everybody
as we followed the dusty trail
that we were told would lead
us to the promised river of life

we were like ants
marching together in line
through the desert

"Are we almost there?" I'd ask over and over

"Have faith," I was told by the lead ant

I got so thirsty
so tired
so scared

over time, I realized
that we were just walking
in a great circle

I think we've been here before," I'd comment

"Have faith," the lead ant would reply

"having faith"
in the ancient map
we were following
seemed like a luxury
for those who had
stronger spines

so, one night I slipped
out of line and off the path
and into the vastness

and straight into the
uncharted territory of
my heart

- I've been in the wild
for so long
with only my heart as a
compass

that thumps harder whenever
I get close to an angel

and last night
my heart almost
burst through my
chest

yet,

I don't think that means
I'm getting closer to
what I'm searching for

because God isn't a destination
God is the journey

God isn't an "x!" in the ground
God is a "y?" on my tongue

God is the sunlight peeking through
the deep woods I'm exploring

God is the soil between my
toes that squeeze through
every time I sit down to
watch the sunset

God is the endless horizon
that I am constantly chasing

God isn't a where
God is a here

I'm a nomad
whose principal
theology is to
never quit searching

I'm part of the
church of seeking
hands

I believe in the
canon of
exploration

I'm lost in the vast expanse
of an undiscovered land of
exotic doubts and psalm-singing
owls who croon me to sleep
each night

I have no directions
except to where
my raging heart tells
me to go

I've left the map
I was given in my
youth

and now I'm considered "out there"
with the other heretics

however, I've learned
that the more I wander

the more wonder I get to see

~ John Roedel

I’ve begun a series artworks based on words and I’m taking requests. What single word would you like to see an artwork based on?

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So true.

Q: What should we be when we grow up?

A: Unafraid to be ourselves.
you became self-employed
on the day you were born

your only job since
your first breath

has been
to be yourself

and yes..

being authentic may not ever
make you any real money

and yes...

the job of being unashamedly
yourself doesn't offer you life insurance

or a company car to drive
or stock options
or much social status

but

when you become the author
of your own story

you’ll feel your 401K heart will fill up with the peace that only comes from fully embracing the cosmic wonder of who you are

my love,

don't take too much time off from being the person you were created to be

because we sometimes don't want to
come back from the exhausting vacation of pretending to fit in with everyone else

this job of being you
is 24 hours 7 days a week

and it can be exhausting

yet the more you clock in
to your pure originality

the less it will feel
like actual work

and the more it will seem like play