How to make lemonade out of lemons. How does one see with new eyes? To turn things around and create something new out of being broken. I was so devastated when I received Jessi's pottery. Most of it was ok, but so much was broken and it was the "straw"... It seemed as though one thing after another had been so negative and it was having a terrible effect on me and I KNEW I had to turn it around.
The following morning I remembered. I had heard that in some cultures, Native Americans in particular, always placed some "flaw" in their work, a place where spirit can enter.
Leonard Cohen's famous lyric and one of my favorite's: "There is a crack in everything. That's where the light gets in."
So my aha moment, my lemonade, gave me the idea to create spirit bowls. I glued them, but instead of trying to hide the flaw, I enhanced it. The above one sold.. there are more.
As a reminder of our life and the changes we continuously move through, this mandala was created for the trees initially. Hurricane Sandy brought so many trees down! Every where I drove, I saw how fragile our lives can be... in a second, things can dramatically change. Can we bend, can we flow, can we move with it?
We can only try.
Namaste'
