Come Wander #420

Come Wander #420

Words do not favor a particular direction but go where we lean.

Words do not work their way out of feelings but stay where we lean.

And words do not color experiences but cycle where we lean.

But those truths aren't obvious when it comes to words that have been handed down. 

Words do not doubt but enforce where we lean.

Words do not ask to be carried but weigh heavily where we lean.

And words do not see tomorrow but continue where we lean.

But those truths aren't obvious when it comes to words that have been hand-painted.

Words do not know right but fit right where we lean.

Words do not fail but sit where we lean.

And words do not heal but position where we lean.

But those truths aren't obvious when words have been journaling with the no(s).

So much is said in sentences that never lead to anywhere different.

In thoughts that can't resolve feelings. 

And in trusted stuff reflecting back distrust in slow motion.

Because spaces are shared and words move with speed whether true or not.

Allowing blank spots to be filled in before arrival.

For slogans of sorrow to be clutched tightly. 

And for love to only be for the right blue; the right action.

Because spaces are shared and those ideas are actually a part of our narratives.

A disapproval of missteps and debris.

A compass pointing us away from assistance.

And a deepening of that blue from details.

Because spaces are shared without fair representation, and we just let them.   

Shutting down understanding.

Passing unreal smiles without catching attention.

And not picking up on even the smallest of victories.

So here we are standing between yesterday's dread and tomorrow's hope that the stains will have faded by the time we get there.

Trying to escape what we have naturally been leaning into.

And to not be us in moments with info wars.

As if sacrificing versions of ourselves will keep us safe and our homes won't shake.

Or that trading places will suddenly make weather events just some drama on a map to avoid.

And it's no surprise that those pages whose words slope don't even mention love.

But while we've been tangled up in the packages, what is ours is that we have kept going.

Continued living out loud with that blue that we've pointed at again and again along the way. 

And moved as needed to paint artwork already crowded with references.

So lets get this straight, we aren't holding out for the days that we can read good news on our pages.

We are trying to figure out how to paint ourselves as loved wherever we may go.

So come wander the words and see that they have felt the way they have because we've been letting them.

And if that blue is going to show up here and there, we won't protest who we are but rather the direction that we have been leaning.

Have the best day, POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell   

Checklists #419

Checklists #419

It takes a lot of creativity to not speak on the things that live inside our gardens.

To walk the path of the never, never land that knows how many times no is on the pages.

To have borders that circle us back around to the very same conversations.

To be in rhythm with the tune of luck running out and the black and white of let downs.

To feel its too late to keep that kind of blue from grooving on in what it represents.

And for fear to leave no room for anything other than the worst as self-defense.

It takes a lot of creativity to not speak on the things that still bring hesitation to our artwork.

To smile to maintain the act of yes on the outside while no is locked in on the inside.

To drift along with words that sound so easy and friendly on scenic routes located elsewhere.

To have the weather change without permission even though the days are clearly sunny.

To be homesick within our own homes.

And for the rawness of sorrow to be something to also feel bad about.

It takes a lot of creativity to speak on the things that we've believed we aren't allowed to.

To bridge the details of moments into take aways that certain no(s) could never stop.

To give it all we have after having given our all to silence it.

To go off script so that we know we are worth showing up for.

To sing loudly to blow the clouds away.

And for happiness to have the freedom to share the path with our grief. 

It takes a lot of creativity to speak on the things that have lines tied to the yesterdays.

To applaud the no(s) that were us saying we deserve more.

To realize that observed survival is still laced with strength. 

To laugh at the bad rhymes.

To notice how much pain has never asked for anything other than to be embraced.

And for anger to turn its mound of dirt into mulch for flowers.

There's so much we can see in our stories and every day no plays a role in what we view.

Whether its a soft landing or complications or the beauty that is mostly abstract.

Keeping watch on the details so that the no may be the right one for whatever the moment is.

Changeable with every step and yet able to be consistent with the direction that we lean.

Here for us on the ride that is our lives.

It takes a lot of creativity to use no to speak up or to shut us down with it.

And sometimes we can see that but more often what gets the front page is the no that we know.

Even the confusion between the duality gets penned into existence.

But although no ripples along our lines, its never talking about our strength.

Because the ones that feel good and those that leave scars require a whole lot of power to manage.

And we consistently survive those fickle and sometimes completely inaccurate checklists.

Have the best day, POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell

For the Journeys #418

For the Journeys #418

Moments fade into the routine of familiarity.

Days pass with the idea that the close is only temporary.

Hope brings the language of a different landing beyond what's been the same.

Circling the layers of our intimacy and the unscripted possibilities in the foreign.

One side with known weather and the other implying climate that can't be verified.

The here, the there and some over there talking about leaving the old for the new.

Working to find footing while looking forward and glancing back. 

Slowly moving closer towards the uncomfortable from places that are uncomfortable.

While anxiety carves out space within the hope of this and that.

And pending whispers that it might just be hiding some thorns too. 

Because clips don't always inform and we don't always write down what we should anyways.

Like where strength stays dancing beyond our awareness.

Or where durability isn't our best tune but it still plays specifically for us.

Or where resilience stands unnoticed whenever storms swirl and emotions flow. 

Or where steady looks unsteady in the weeds that grow wildly.

Or where not sure is a slow crawl and hardiness has the same moves.

And even where riding with fear will never be a waste of time for support.

Because a shoddy documentary on a garden and its gardener is still a story about chips and scratches that have been navigated.

Is familiar going together with hard and unfamiliar walking hand and hand with it too.    

Is memories that don't care how we are and us caring about memories.

Is blue as the magic in the sky and feelings that never seem to run out of blue paint.

Is loneliness in crowded rooms and crowds that can't solve loneliness either.

And is happiness that meets us and happiness that calls for us to meet it.  

Moments fade into the routine of familiarity, but while that intimacy might have some answers, what's big needs what's little too.

Days pass with the idea that the close is only temporary because change is looking out for the blind spots up and down our way.

Hope brings the language of a different landing beyond what's been the same, but that never meant that love couldn't be found in what we have stayed in.

Our homes hold the memories that they do, but for the journeys, those memories give the illusion that strength wasn't also standing in the room.

Which is why a particular word supports us in the heaviness of the familiar, the unfamiliar and the confusion of the spaces in between.

Have the best day, POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell

To Keep #417

To Keep #417

Moments are for keeps.

Details are for keeps.

Feelings are for keeps.

As the weeds saved in gardens.

Words saved in stories.

Colors saved in artwork.

And lines saved in songs.

For the weight fused between hearts and minds.

The shadows drowning homes in darkness.

The voices worrying about what needs to be handled.

And for the not all right that comes from unstoppable forces coming to play.

Leaving us to underestimate our ability to communicate differently.

To show up for the anguish in the mirror.

To walk landscapes where blooms are still dormant seeds in the ground.

With that kind of blue giving and taking despite hope.

Isolating instead of capturing more of the view.

And normalizing rhetoric that was never meant to stay.  

What we've experienced isn't for keeps.

How silhouettes have been held isn't for keeps.

Where feelings of helplessness have remained isn't for keeps.

As whispers working to introduce something different.

Rough drafts not waiting to get it right to touch the care.

Blue spinning the block to rest in softer hands.

And sorrow recognizing songs but not at the expense of love.

For things to quietly get some power from good enough.

Walls struggling with arrangements to take on more moments of help.

Phases of shaking to be seen as freestyling dance moves.

And tears rolling down to take their time crossing the borders of labels.

Allowing the benefit of being in between the mixed messaging.

To view more than the whatnots normally stared at in the mirror.

And to continue on since seeds don't always end up playing the part of flowers.

We can't count the times we were able to just forget life but we do remember why we have used a lot of blues on our canvases.

We can't count the hours we've looked up at a perfectly blue sky but we do remember how many moments we have tried to figure a way out while looking up.

We can't count the wanted things that we took by the hand but we do remember all the things that follow along making us blue.

And we can't count the times that we have accepted us as we are, but we do remember all the ones where blue has called red by its storyline name. 

But while to keep or not to keep is a messy game, blue quietly connects with us as a reminder that it's made up of varying hues and so are we. 

Have the best day, POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell

Belong #416

Belong #416

Been in the garden.

The story.

The artwork.

The rhythm.

Having planted.

Written.

Colored.

Composed.

Focused on the growth.

The words.

The feelings.

The sounds.

Built into the home.

The talk.

The weather.

The music.

As confessions of less even though there is more.

As unity touching all.

As reflections of every single smile.

As repeating coordinates for playing through.

Because no matter where every storyline has been or goes, there's comfortableness within the collection of that foliage.

There's acceptance within the terms.

There's shelter within the tones.

There's familiarity within the steps.

But then the stories are thin without the moments that make knowing right where the perfect blue belongs personal.

Without the spotty employment history of love and where anger finishes strong.

Without the weather that creates hope and runs through the count of sunny days.

Without the stability written in by silence and the fear that alters it into instability.

Without the sound of a whispered song and the echoes of it sung loudly on some other day.

Without the stained paintbrushes that still portray life without touching a canvas.

Without the sorrow that releases tears more frequently than laughter does.

And without the freestyling of weeds that cast shadows and pauses. 

Because fitting into a choir doesn't mean personal pitches don't have to be practiced.

Looking like other stories doesn't stop unseen details from rolling around homes.

The sanctuary of a group doesn't prevent the rain from coming in sideways anyways.

And together doesn't untangle thoughts of loneliness.

So notice how the community gets agreement from the gardener but the garden gets discord.

Watch how the hardest thing isn't the details but that the writer is still sitting in the gossip missing the love part. 

Observe how we want blue skies but not the slowdown that every artist and artwork needs.

And see how there are songs to carry feels but those feels are why the music sounds right.

Because with and without fitting in and details, connection can and does create conflict and conflict can and does create connection.

And as we pull up yet another duality, remember; a particular word doesn't pause just because we know our face in why our perfect blues belong where they do. 

Have the best day, POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell 

That Uncertainty #415

That Uncertainty #415

What travels between our hearts and our heads is what we have met in ourselves with certainty.

In what leaks through the spaces within gardens that hold gain: whether in joy or in pain.

In their sharing common ground amongst the layers of pages.

In their giving generously to the narratives of our words and in pivoting the weather.

As the aspects of the companions that continue to remain.

As recalled views despite not being within sight of others.

And as the wins and the losses that haven't always built confidence, but we've hoped for it anyways.

Because our artwork has met with the duality that certainty projects.

In how being sure has held us back as well as moved us forward.

In how right has been wrong in some moments and wrong has been right in others.

In how trusting us makes change possible even when we are certain we are scared.

In how thinking the magic is somewhere else fosters the heavy weight of not knowing we are enough every day.

And in how belief is influenced by the certainty that has already walked onto the stage through past reflections.

Because it's how familiarity brings reliability into stories where unfamiliar seems threatening. 

But that doesn't prevent certainty's conflict of interest from sabotaging confidence.

Doesn't deconstruct the tangles and rewrite them into the instructions that won't empty us before tomorrow has even arrived.

Doesn't allow us to mourn the missteps instead of losing ourselves because of them.  

So, if certainty has us repeating stuff, are we even curious about the pages anymore?  

Are we seeing what's playing or is it just fading into the background?

And is hope being dragged along with certainty or is hope testifying that the road gets better when we are certain about liking ourselves anyways?

Because certainty isn't asking us to sink into the deep end of sorrow, nor is it asking us not to feel the doubt.    

Isn't promising to fix anything nor that if held close, that a bunch of other stuff won't need mending.

Isn't turning sad songs into direction nor growing pains into comfortable movements.

Isn't making us resilient nor is it showing us that we aren't strong.

But it does dance around with whatever moves we make, picking up wherever it lands.

Sometimes in small ways, others for the melancholy but also the sunny days with ease.

For confidence as well as the devotion despite the little information that's being seen.

Just to be all that it can be in lifting happy or in closing our eyes over yonder in the grief.

As a word in the journal of our lives that we forget to actually read.

As a nutrient in the garden with context made from unfiltered emotions that have been known to deceive.

And as the color blue to wrap some of those things up in.

For certainty's relationship within our stories gives freely to what comes home but as we are looking the other way, a particular word outlasts that uncertainty.

 Have the best day, POSSIBLE for you. Love Always, Heavell