Poetry and Painting

I started my new painting class which is a whole lot of fun.  I am terrible at it as you can see but I am enjoying learning about lines and depth.  It is a lot of fun and I have even started sketching a little bit.  This is a picture I drew of a jug.

While it is no where near perfect I am really proud of the progress I made in just a short time.  I am enjoying learning about something I don't know anything about.  It is truly so much fun.

I also went last night to a reading a friend of mine did of his writing. He was so brave and so talented.  I was very inspired by it and I started thinking about how long it has been since I have written and shared any poetry of my own.   I wrote something this morning hope you guys like it:

It Is Right

There is a difference in the step

When walking with purpose

Happy

Head held up high

Forgetting to question myself

Feeling the sun on my face

Feeling beautiful

Having it run from the tip of my toes to the top of my head

Believing in me

Truly learning that the tiny imperfections are what make it interesting

Forgiving myself

For the for the times I wasn’t enough

For the times I didn’t know how to do anything but hide

Knowing that I alone would find the answers of who I could be

I can write

I can Paint

I can SIng

I can DANCE

I CAN SMILE

I can do any old thing I want to do and have peace with it

I don’t even have to be good at it

Or be the best at it

I can just be me

I am enough

I don’t have to live up to any labels they have affixed to me

I can climb out of the box and hang out on the ledge

I don’t have to self destruct

Or self medicate

I can grow with purpose

I can change the narrative

I did not know that

I thought I was stuck in the story I was in

 but I am not

I can be anything

It is okay to say I

It is okay to be selfish

It is okay to drink in cool breezes and powerful sunsets

It is okay to say NO

When I don’t feel like it

When something makes me uncomfortable

When my boundaries are not being respected

It is okay to say Yes

To something different

To meet new people who think about life differently

To step outside of my comfort zone

To try something new

To color outside of the lines

It is okay to be more than I ever dreamed possible

To be a loving wife/mother/daughter/sister/friend

To be obsessed with dreams and what they mean

Both literally and figuratively

To stare up at the sky and get consumed by it

It is okay to be lonely

It is okay to be in a crowd

It is okay to laugh as loud as I want

As hard as I want

It is okay to be right here where I am today

 In fact it is more than okay

         It is Right