Saw this link on the DEFINE School forum on how to make multiple-exposure images in a digital camera and I decided to play. That's important, I think. To always stay playful.
(bottom image is by the miraculous Thomas Gardella)
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We leave for the road in a week. We announce our exciting new business this month. But today, it's all about this.
Our Creative Truth \\ Week 2
“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
We are from all corners of the world and on completely different journeys.
But here, in this little pocket of the internet, we kind of hold hands and declare that We. Are. Enough. Right where we are.
The tones don't match. The subjects aren't consistent. Some of us are professional photographers. Some of us use our phones.
It doesn't matter. The threads of courage and resiliency that hold our hearts together are strong; and true.
Sidney Morgan, NYC
Becki Martin, MA
TCN, Dubai 
Janica Day Boles, TX
Ashley DaCruz, NYC
Victoria Schaefer, CT
Rose Hewartson, Australia 
Lindsey Bro, CA
Rachael Shirano, IL
Michelle Gardella, Everywhere USA
Phyllis Meredith, CT
Kathy Glass, CT
Kellie Hatcher, Hawaii
(Visit Week 1 here, and if you are called to share your creative truth, please reach out. This isn't an exclusive club. This is all of our stories. Together)
Our Creative Truth
“The truth is, in order to heal we need to tell our stories and have them witnessed...The story itself becomes a vessel that holds us up, that sustains, that allows us to order our jumbled experiences into meaning.As I told my stories of fear, awakening, struggle, and transformation and had them received, heard, and validated by other women, I found healing. I also needed to hear other women's stories in order to see and embrace my own. Sometimes another woman's story becomes a mirror that shows me a self I haven't seen before. When I listen to her tell it, her experience quickens and clarifies my own. Her questions rouse mine. Her conflicts illumine my conflicts. Her resolutions call forth my hope. Her strengths summon my strengths. All of this can happen even when our stories and our lives are very different.” ― Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
After being hopelessly inspired by the collaborative concept behind You Are My Wild, I felt called to create a collaborative post, too.
It's so beautiful, the simple and profound act of coming together, isn't it?
So, I asked each woman to send over an image with the prompt "My Creative Truth." No other rules, except to tell the truth of where we are, in this moment, on our creative journeys.
My hope is that when sewn together, these images create a tapestry of truth and inspiration for other creative women.
It can feel so separate; being a woman on a creative path. Painters, poets, photographers; sometimes we all can't help but feel spread so thin and disconnected.
Our voices so often become drowned out in the telling and tending of other people's stories. Our clients. Our children.
But under all of it, there is still us.
And we are not alone.
Sometimes we tiptoe, sometimes we stomp. Sometimes we roar and sometimes we whisper.
All of us are completely imperfect.
And we, and you, are seriously amazing.
Wherever we are.
Always.
Janica Day Boles, Texas
Sidney Morgan, Brooklyn NY
Kellie Hatcher, Hawaii
Kathleen Glass, Windsor Connecticut
Lindsey Bro, San Clemente California
Marion Cabanis, France
TCN, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Morgan Wade, Berkeley California
Victoria Schaefer, Plainville Connecticut
Michelle Gardella, Wherever the wind blows USA
(side note: This is not an exclusive club. If you are called to share your images of your creative truth, please email. This is our story. Together.)
Social Media Detox
This week has been totally free from all social media, with very limited email and internet access. I promise I'm not ignoring anyone! Sometimes it just starts to feel like a lot, and I just need to take a few days to totally reconnect with my Truth. For me, I can only get to my authentic self and truth when everything is quiet and I'm outside, a lot.
So, thank you for your patience! You are so important to me and I'll be back to checking all of your messages and tags and fun intsagrams on Monday!
