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Forward Motion

Posted on January 30, 2008 - Filed Under Being an Artist

forward72.jpg This is my journal page for today: a day of thinking about my friends who are fighting hard for their health, coping with loss and people who are battling for what they believe in. Hope is what keeps us sane and moving forward, and yet what is the key of it; faith, luck, fate? I think part of it is just putting one foot in front of the other and making our way toward what we want. Someone I respect says that sometimes you just have to act like a person who is hopeful. Then it becomes so! Dusty Springfield wrote a song for the film Norma Rae and the lyrics are stuck in my head:

So it goes like it goes         

Like the river flows 

And time it rolls right on 

And maybe what’s good gets a little bit better  

And maybe what’s bad gets gone       

Today I am grateful for my journal: the poems and pictures in my head that land between those pages. And thank goodness for music, and the voice of Jennifer Warnes in my studio singing Dusty Springfield’s song while I drink tea and watch the snow falling in the field outside my window.    

  

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One Response to “Forward Motion”

  1. Rella on February 2nd, 2008 9:15 pm

    This is such a touching piece.

    I discovered you and your work/blog as I put together my wish list for Art Unraveled. I hope to be front and center that Monday with you.

    xo Rella