June is here. Summer sun, creating in my studio in Savannah, daydreaming and designing my new life and wondering where it will lead...where I will live ...and how it will impact my work.
I am not fearful...well maybe just a little. I am excited by the potential and possibilities of it all.I am ridding of the guilt associated with letting go of my old life.
My niece shared this with me: “A friend took me to the most amazing place the other day. It’s called
the Augusteum. Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the
barbarians came they trashed it along with everything else. The great
Augustus, Rome’s first true great emperor...how could he have imagined
that Rome, the whole world as far as he was concerned, would be in
ruins. It’s one of the quietest, loneliest places in Rome. The city has
grown up around it over the centuries. It feels like a precious wound, a
heartbreak you won’t let go of because it hurts too good. We all want
things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we’re
afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked at around
to this place, at the chaos it has endured – the way it has been
adapted, burned, pillaged and found a way to build itself back up again.
And I was reassured, maybe my life hasn’t been so chaotic, it’s just
the world that is, and the real trap is getting attached to any of it.
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.” Elizabeth Gilbert
Ruin is a gift. June is here. Change will come.
