If I Knew

This print came from an idea for the Unity on the Plaza gallery art show for the month of March, 2015. It carries the theme of the show. Guests and members were invited to fill out cards with their own ideas of what they would do if they could not fail. The process was a success with cards and statements covering the gallery walls. One of my own cards was, "If I knew I could not fail I would drive to the Writers' Colony in Eureka Springs this spring." Because of a bum knee I knew it would not be possible for me to make the drive but . . . if I could I would. Never did I imagine that my husband would say (during a March Madness basketball game), "Why don't I take you to Eureka Springs?" The thought of someone else driving never entered my mind and I replied, "It is a 4 hour drive each way." Of course he knew that but wanted to take me because "you enjoy it so much." So, here I am as gratitude surrounds me! Two out of three cards have come to fruition and the third is a dream in process. Think about it . . . dreams do come true. 

As they happen

Imagine, dreams waking as you walk through them    You live in them    as they happen    and they become no longer dreams.

Diamonds

As a girl sitting in the backseat
of the '52 Packard    my nose
pressed the glass of the window    As

my father drove us through the
Country Club Plaza    As
    I dreamt
of living there
when grown and
sleek and
independent.

As a woman with a career,
I moved from Iowa to a job
within blocks of the Plaza    and
I lived on Ward
Parkway across from Brush
Creek    in an elegant brick
building named Carlyle,
after the poet.    And

I became a poet
while living on "Poets Row"
walking romantic evening walks
through streets lined with
diamonds.

Enchanted, I drove from work to home
through the Plaza holiday lights    and
sometimes wept with joy    As

I was finally, really home    As
life turned simple amongst ornate mosaic towers and
red tiled roofs of rose stucco buildings.

I was where I had always wanted to be --

Imagine, dreams waking as you walk through them
You live in them    As they happen    and
they become
no longer dreams.

Wonderworks

Tao One, as translated by John Bright-Fey, refers to word without word as "Wonderworks" and this caused me to think of WordLayers and how it began and why. It came out of a dream to change my life from uncomfortable to joyous. I wrote words of the dream. I actualized Tao One by changing word to non-word and the result was exactly what I wanted as I watched it happen. I participated in the happening but it happened first -- this writing into non-word, this obtaining dream out of the colors of words. Imagine that. It happened and I lived it. I walked the path of the dreamer and lived exactly there, in back-word writing, until it was time to move on and I finally absorbed Wonderworks. Just absorbed it -- and all of me was me. I now write WordLayers as an art and take the prints to have them  beautifully matted and framed and each piece becomes its own within itself and all now hang on the walls of my home. And, in every room I walk through magic. This is what the Wordlayers.com site is all about and this just dawned on me today. I think there is really no time, we just live in this life and all is all at the same time. As Tao One reminds me, "one miracle talks to another in a language that you can feel but not understand."