song of the red thread

Song of the Red Thread is a collection of all the poems and fragments I wrote while journeying through Color of Woman, the flagship art programme from the School of Intentional Creativity. A transformation and a healing, in paint and words and magic.

This is not a tale of black or white, of darkness or light. It is a journey through the greys of being.

Here there are flowers and feathers.

We journey from fear to magic and the search for belonging. From grove to tundra. Pen to paper and heart to canvas.

This is not a tale of redemption or success. Rather it is a tale of the small things, the everyday, the highs and lows. Traversing the small deaths in the river of sorrow and learning to grieve. Learning what is in the heart and what has been hidden. Searching for acceptance within this skin that we have grown.

Here we will find that the boundaries - human/non-human, self/other, inner/outer nature, corporeal/spiritual - are not as impermeable as we thought. We will find beauty in their dissolution.

We will learn what it is to listen, and what it means to centre our awareness from deep within - body, not head. Integrated, not separate.

This is not a tale of learning to be what we have been taught to want to be. This is a tale of finding our own soil, roots and breath.

Sometimes, we flower in the dark. Sometimes we are the owl. Sometimes we find we are living someone else’s story and the red river under our skin is thick with pain.

Sometimes we are freed.

This journey won’t be easy. We will cry and we will wail. Our bones will ache. We will want to run.

But we will learn it is worth it, as we begin to truly live. Awake, aware. Whole and integrated. Not perfect, but healed enough.

Now is the time for us to be the initiators of our own mythology. So come, take my hand, and let us begin.

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