Overlooked but not forgotten.

My apologies… I have become flustered as possibly I have been too ambitious for a beginner blogger; taking on two blogs at once. Somebody said to me the other day that she thought I had too many irons in the fire and so I have become, so to speak: distracted… preoccupied… engrossed… or otherwise engaged with life and my other interests. My attention has been diverted.

Don’t think that Artist’s Guild has been put out of my head or that I have become confused, muddled or disturbed. I am simply finding my way, slowly.

Here is a poem I wrote on 05.07.11about walking a labyrinth; I also think it is a lovely metaphor for life.

Walking in square circles.

as I walked I thought

'so quick and easy' but

Just as life is... it is not that way

I found myself criss-crossing

zigzagging on my way

inch by inch

another thought entered

as I walked the folding corners of the circle

overlapping this way and that:

'I know where I am going... I think... this is taking time'

life's just like that and that’s a fact!

inch by inch

I meet up with an 'other'

for a while our paths travel abreast

walking a quiet connectedness side by side 

then going our separate ways

only to meet up again later

inch by inch

traveling along ways i don’t anticipate

I feel like I am turning away from my destination

the path seems to be going in the wrong direction

'I am lost!'...it begins to disorientate

but the path is ahead of me all the way

inch by inch

I feel like I am close to the end

when actually I've just stepped into the circle

following the many folds

a journey of a thousand 'noticings'

is like waking up:

first noticing so much detail

leaves, feathers & drawing pin

then noticing my surroundings,

the court yard that I'm in

again noticing the 'others',

inevitably on their own way

inch by inch

for a while traveling faster

but then again winding

my way at a slow pace

to stay on the path

inch by inch

Living life as it comes

living with surprising turns

on my own

having the confidence

that this is the way

following the path

wherever it goes (inch by inch)

life and it's many layered pathway

can be confusing

can feel futile

so I just do what I must do (inch by inch)

putting one step in front of another

the path will emerge

as it is laid out before me

trust...

there is no hurry

slowly slowly on my way

walking in square circles.