SEEING WHAT'S NEXT: SOULING INTO FULL PLANETHOOD ON SUPER MOON NIGHT

SOUL SEEING ON THE NIGHT OF THE SUPER MOON. (art by Hallelujah Truth)

Hallelujah Pilgrims. Summer is in the air. Tonight (May 5, 2012) in Atlanta, Georgia, is the night of the SUPER MOON! For us SOJOURNERS traversing the UNIVERSE doing our SOUL WORK, the night offers kind intense illumination. Part of the exploration of the unknown is welcoming rare opportunities to SEE, really SEE where the SOUL is going. My questions to you DEAR PILGRIMS are these:


CAN WE PHYSICALLY SEE OUR SOULS? 
WHAT ILLUMINATION DO WE NEED FOR OBSERVATION?
WILL WE RECOGNIZE WHAT WE SEE?
WHAT COMES FIRST, KNOWLEDGE OR REVELATION?
IS ACTION OR REACTION REQUIRED?

GREETING THE UNKNOWN.  Souling takes us to places we don't immediately recognize as self reflections. Is it possible that all we see is manifested from our own interiority? If so, where am I now?

I will address these questions in this way--Let's toast to our eternal health! Drink and BE MERRY! BREATHE and EXHALE everything. EVERYTHING is precious and has something to teach us!


This practice of joyfully embracing what comes into our LIVES gives this PROMISE:


LIFE IS TO BE LIVED NOW!


As I enter the next stage of my life that I am calling FULL PLANETHOOD, I intend to do just that--LIVE! 


My full planethood is my expansion into the fullness of Hallelujah Truth! I am no longer orbiting the planets of my youthful adoration. Instead, I have broken the gravitational pull. Stay-tuned to Coffee with Hallelujah to share 15 minutes of creativity in my new planethood! Share your orbits with me!


PEACEFUL JOURNEY TO YOU ALL, EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU!

HAPPY TALK or MISERABLE WHINES?: WHAT KIND OF INNER DIALOGUE WILL YOU CHOOSE?

Hallelujah for the Creative Dialogue! Here I am with Maria the Hutia, the Long-Tailed Tropic Bird, Amber, and my magical companion, Wandjina! Art by Hallelujah Truth

Greetings PILGRIMS!  Welcome to my CREATIVE JOURNEY! OR NOT!  Today, you find me in a maelstrom of my own mind chatter--a noisy storm blowing me back and forth between two opposing mental states: FAILURE and SUCCESS. I am SOUL BLOGGING right now to summon COURAGE to WALK MY PATH in accordance with my beliefs about CREATIVITY. I believe that process is more important than product and that the lessons we learn along the WAY are invaluable. My current CREATIVE maelstrom involves a Bahamian hutia, a story written about this endangered animal by a geographer, and my process of illustrating that geographer's story.



In 2008,  I agreed to illustrate "The (Mis)Adventures of Maria the Hutia" even though I couldn't draw. I said YES because I believe in the power of ART to engage people in important matters, like science education. We can all make a difference by teaching others what we know about this AMAZING BEAUTIFUL WORLD. I did think I was going to paint my way through this story until it became apparent that the project's zero-funding meant color images were out. Instead, I would draw easy to produce black-and-white images of Maria Hutia. I would do this so that Bahamian children would be introduced to a young lost animal in search of her pristine island in hopes that they would learn more about their surrounding environment, including iguanas, sea turtles, crayfish, and coral.  


Fast forward 3 years, and I have have learned to draw! I tell Maria the Hutia's story visually in 27 illustrations. I have TRAVELED through numerous doubts about my ARTISTIC skills and vision while making these pencil drawings of Maria's adventures.  Currently, I have "finished" 15 images using micron pens and india ink. Have I experienced SUCCESS in this CREATIVE endeavor? 


Maybe...Maybe Not...I can explain my inner struggle by sharing lyrics from old musicals that I was listening to last night and today. First, are the lyrics from Show Boat that express my feelings of "hard work" and "agony" I have encountered in the process. I recommend you click on the link and listen to Paul Robeson sing it.

You an'me, we sweat an' strain,

Body all achin' an' racket wid pain,

Tote dat barge!

Lif' dat bale!

From the musical Show Boat, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein


I totally immersed myself in "toting that barge" and "lifting that bale" while I worked with a size 8 micron pen outlining the story's characters escaping from the zoo. I felt miserable. I whined all kinds of things: 

HALLELUJAH IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST, Art by Hallelujah Truth

I can't draw.
My drawing takes me too long.
My illustrations are boring.
My illustrations aren't skillful enough.
I'm not ever going to finish.
No one will like these images.
What a waste of time.
My neck and back hurt.


Then when my CD of Show Boat finished, I changed to the show tune, South Pacific. I always love listening to the song, "Some Enchanted Evening"! As the songs continued and I heard the song, "Happy Talk,"  I started laughing! Here was the attitude I CELEBRATE and strive for as HALLELUJAH TRUTH! Do listen to this sweet song! I have linked it below for you!


Happy talk, keep talking happy talk
Talk about things you like to do
You got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream
how you gonna have a dream come true?


From the musical South Pacific, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein

HALLELUJAH TO JOYFUL JOURNEY AND TO YESes!

Shifting to the magical space called POSSIBILITY made me laugh! I have a dream of making a difference through my ART. I believe in the power of ART to HEAL, ART to TEACH. I dream that we can HEAL the EARTH by learning more about it. 


I believe our inner dialogues matter! What will you do today? I suggest HAPPY TALK! Listen to the song, Living Jewels of the Land, The Sky and Sea , that the geographer Ronald Shaklee wrote about Maria the Hutia. What a beautiful song about some of the life in the Bahamas!

Introducing Launa the Iguana. Launa thought of the family she had left behind. A tear came to her eye. In the story,  The (Mis)Adventures of Maria the Hutia, she is responsible for leading the other animals out of the zoo and to their journeys to find home. Art by Hallelujah Truth