Monday, April 4, 2022
The Butterfly has Landed
I have started a month long move into my studio apartment. It is a burden to have to do this. It also is a blessing at the same time. This time of my life, I should be traveling lighter and more carefree. I can't really do that with the amount of things I own. Everything I own has been moved into a room in a house that I don't own anymore. So, on my days off I am sorting through it all. And, the first thing I am working on is the setting up of my creative space. Yesterday, I saw a post on Where Women Create's site. It was #internationalfindtherainbow day. I decided my colorful stained glass window is my rainbow. And with that came the idea of starting a new instagram site to post about my space and eventually about my art and writing journey. I wanted to use the name "butterfly wrestler" as I was referred to once. I love the name because of it's feeling of the gentleness of a butterfly. But, the butterfly is strong in it's journey from caterpillar to butterfly. So, that is where the title of this post came from. My new site on Instagram is @greetingsfromgeralyn, because butterflywrestler was already taken. As, I started putting everything in it's place, time was flying by. I was meeting friends to go see the movie CODA, which I highly recommend. There are two scenes where the song she decides to sing is Joni Mitchell's song: Both Ways Now and it was making me feel all the feels. I got a good cry in (not happy that was in public). But, I could hear others were emotional too. Joni Mitchell was so young (she was 23) when she had all of these feelings about being in a relationship and seeing things another way. It just felt so relatable, but I heard that song many times when I was young and it didn't really strike a chord. I felt back then it was a sad song. But, reading the lyrics as it was sung, every word just hit me hard. I truly loved the feeling, and had to include the song today. The quote I included is from John Lennon and it makes me realize that I am coming to terms with everything lately.
Quote of the day: John Lennon: “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
Song of the day: Joni Mitchell Both Ways Now
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