People have asked me on so many occasions
"Wendy, why don't you run your photography business anymore?"
"Why don't you make children's clothes and bows and open up that store again?"
Well here it is everyone
I am about as grounded as a Star*
My spirit is so wild that sometimes I feel like I will burst if I don't shoot across the sky
Even though most times I end up bouncing from Moon to Moon
My mind is like a silent film strip that is constantly being cut and edited
Adding new pieces but never really completing the movie
I want to do everything and see everything
All at once
If you were to look into any one of my creative spaces at home
You would find the start of a dozen books and stories
Half painted masterpieces and penciled sketches in half empty sketch books
Scattered all over the house
Stacks of fabrics and patterns that are partially sewn
plants waiting to be planted
creations waiting to become complete
books to finish reading
trips longing to be taken
dreams hoping to become realized
and all of them wanting so desperately to be
Patiently waiting for the moment I pass back by and
breathe into them that last bit of imagination
that will bring them completely to life
I lie in bed at night (which usually does not happen until around 2 or 3am)
and like a roaring river
images and ideas fill every part of my head
and keep me awake until exhaustion finally pulls me under
And then I have my 4 Wild hearts
Each pulling me in different directions all at once
They are the beats that drown out all the other madness
and create a Wonderfully Mad world all their own
grasping each hand and waiting for me to lead them
on new adventures daily
or see what they have conjured up in their own wild imaginations
So happily I have to admit that I have absolutely no idea what tomorrow may bring
(or what the next hour may bring for that matter)
Completely unknown
A Wonderfully Mad Enigma
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