"lebensraum", 14' h x 9' w. © 2007
[ literally : 'place to live' ]
octo - cardinal - [wholeness, change, leadership, power] - happiness - lake - false witness - stealing -
perhaps the fact that i have fewer days left on earth than i’ve already spent is finally sinking in - a reality i was always aware of [especially since turning 50], but something i escaped from - to the extent that, for a few years, i couldn’t remember [with certainty] my age ...
now - with renewed clarity, new opportunities, and deliberate resolve - i feel an urgency to pursue goals with new confidence after some hard-learned lessons ...
for whatever time there is left, i want to earnestly live every day as though it were my last ... to make dreams realities, to always attempt to take the next ‘right’ step, and believe that what we do makes a difference ...
though it may be true, i’m tired of being told that my carbon footprint is too large, that my lack of support for our governments’ efforts is unpatriotic, that we live in the greatest country in the world, that you can’t ‘emerge’ unless you move through conventional channels, and that its either black or white! i’ve seen enough difference to qualify my objections ... and i’m prepared to confront issues and resistance with intelligence, compassion, and commitment ...
