"A Waking Heart" Original Mosaic Mixed Media Painting On 16x16 Wood Canvas bloom how grief opens a secret

how grief opens a secret passage

Are you going to in that moment be empowered and divert that victimhood role or are you going to be stunted by rigidity

to be remade

To give back what they’ve taken

The breaths we take when no one is watching

"A Waking Heart" Original Mosaic Mixed Media Painting On 16x16 Wood Canvas bloom how grief opens a secretThere is a depth the heart reaches What well of water lies, its proximity to grief, its dependence on memory, its brief tenure. Joy visits here too, though it never stays clean. Even joy carries salt. Even joy knows how close it stands to everything that has been lost. In this deep place, the heart is not choosing optimism or despair. It is choosing attention. The water does not absolve. It wakes you. And that waking, again and again, is how the heart