Seeds: A Tiny Collection was born from a desire to create something small, precious, and so full of potential that all you can do is watch what happens when you just let it happen. I had been building a practice of exploring and letting go on the page, letting water move color around, drawing images as they came without any concrete plans or control. But this–this little family of pieces–I decided to create with more intention. I wanted to experiment with the possibility for intention and surrender to blend together when they seem so contradictory. This is when the word “seeds” surfaced in my mind. At first I felt resistance to this idea, doubting its substance. But as I showed up to pull the threads of this idea and just let these pieces come, I learned this:

We can grow our courage by showing up bravely to the small things. 

A small step is a step nonetheless. They are accessible and hold just as much weight as the big ones. 

It is the tininess of a thing that lures your mind to the endless potential within it, like realizing your place in the universe and watching an ant carry a fallen silverbell bloom. 

As a way to spend some time in relationship with these pieces that I fell in love with so slowly, I sat with each of them to ask what they’d like to say...

We Are The Same

My heart reaches out for you. It just wants to open wide and let you in, to hold you in my arms and smell your skin, to feel your heartbeat against mine. This is a surrender to pure love. The kind that sees no separation between our existence and yet is overwhelmed by the beauty of our unique expressions, our unique way of swaying in the world. You have taught me that it is okay to let go, to let this overwhelming ease of love’s movement just take me. It’s okay. It’s okay to not know where I’ll land if I let go. It’s okay to be swept away. 

Emerge

There is a tension in coming back, in returning to the light after time spent nestled in a dark, warm place. We are pulled, drawn forth by some magnetic force. We’re so coated in the pollen of darkness that light attracts to us without question.  It finds us, wraps a little braided cord around our wrist and leads us on. Emerging to rejoin the rhythms of life up here, stacking the bones back on top of one another, we ready ourselves to dance and dance and dance until it’s time to slip back down again and reconnect with the unknown. This is the beauty and pleasure of spending time in the underworld, the deeper you go the more aware you become of this pull between the beauty in each place. And so we’ll dance on, spiraling in and out of certainty and mystery.

A Door At The Surface

Within every drop of water is the gravity to hold together an entire world. The smallest door can lead to the grandest of landscapes just beyond the surface. When we’re ready to walk through a threshold like this we will see the light pouring from behind it, even if it is only through a hairline crack in our perspective. We will recognize the call as ours, as being from our soul, even if it is a whisper. For we are always being guided towards what we are meant to know, and all the other rich mystery surrounding it cradles us along the way. 

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