{"id":2907,"date":"2017-03-05T20:21:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2017-03-05T20:21:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:21:33","slug":"preppin-to-fast-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/preppin-to-fast-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Preppin&#8217; to Fast Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Welcome to the art\/life trail! <strong>I&#8217;m so glad that you are here<\/strong>.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Within a few short weeks we will jump back into the saddle and begin a fresh\u00a0ride around the Natural New Year. \u00a0On the art\/life trail we&#8217;re tracking each next step in the ongoing and unlimited creative process. We benefit by remembering that imagination and creative expression are unique to each of us&#8230;no two creative voices are the same. How thrilling!<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">We&#8217;ve just left the February challenge of Renewal. Naturally I took the challenge&#8230;and as a result I have a new way to share the joy and wonder of the art\/life trail with you&#8230;ta da&#8230;my first vlog entry:<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It&#039;s Almost Spring...\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7uuxb_DgrXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Please leave a comment&#8230;I invite you to consider what this new walk around the Natural Calendar means for you. What do you dream to create? Thoreau taught me many years ago that to &#8220;affect the quality of the day is the highest of arts.&#8221; <\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Take this as your March month long challenge:<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Sense into the deepest dream for your art\/life. Journal, allow each hand to have its turn in responding to your inquiry. See what you are yearning to give birth to as you allow both sides of your brain to communicate.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2070 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cursive-.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cursive-.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/cursive-.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Ask: <\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\">What do I want to have come of this time? <\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\">What is this time for? <\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #808000;\">What touches, moves and inspires ME?\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">We&#8217;ve been traveling down and inward since October. Now we begin to turn toward the Topside world. As we hop back into the saddle and begin to move out of the womb cave and into the bigger world we will be both challenged and ignited.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">For these next two weeks you can prepare by consciously remembering to rest, replenish, wander and wonder. The idea is to dream the dream as you prep to midwife yourself into this never before opportunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">It&#8217;s a super exciting and potent year as we open to a new Global creative Decade&#8230;as you step through the threshold of 2017 you and me and we are setting the tone and the timber for the unfolding of something wonderful to emerge. It requires guts and gumption to remain focused. You deserve to create the best of who and what you can be.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">I look forward to sharing the trail ride with you and gathering &#8217;round the fire&#8217; to welcome and remember the way back to Center&#8230;together there is no limit to what we can create.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2007 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Che-photo2.jpg?resize=396%2C263\" width=\"396\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Che-photo2.jpg?w=396&amp;ssl=1 396w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Che-photo2.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Here are two poems from my book <em><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><a style=\"color: #993366;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/care-givers-book\/\">Twenty Two Prayer Poems for Care Givers<\/a>:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>The Sun, the Moon, the Stars <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">\u201cTwinkle twinkle little star\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Dear Beloved,<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">I see and sense and feel the child<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">That is filled with wonder at this time.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">I remember when You taught me that<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">We are all like library books on loan<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">From God&#8217;s library.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">None of us know when it will be time for our return.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">As I visit this one who is so soon to depart<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">My thoughts go to the beauty of the chapters<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Which You have crafted for this life.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Whenever there was suffering or sadness<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">You brought relief.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Whatever obstacles or barriers<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Presented themselves<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">You indicated a path to travel.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">It is time now for this one to return to You.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Like any good book we wish for a happy ending.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Let this one be tenderly embraced during<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">This rite of passage.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Hold this one gently in Your loving light.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">I can see the pages turn slowly signaling<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">&#8220;The end&#8221; and I weep tears of joy.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">For having known this ones story<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">I can share it until I too am called back<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Home to You.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Amen<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2154\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/C-Luna.jpg?resize=291%2C400\" width=\"291\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/C-Luna.jpg?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/C-Luna.jpg?resize=768%2C1054&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/C-Luna.jpg?resize=746%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 746w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/C-Luna.jpg?w=2280 2280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #808000;\">Journal Page, Drozda, ink\/paper, 14 x 11&#8243;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000; font-size: 24px;\"><strong>The Ancestors <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">\u201cShe who we have loved and lost is no longer where she was before,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">she is now wherever we are.\u201d<br \/>\nEnglish Gravestone Inscription<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Dear One,<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">I am with this one who<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Now seems so alone<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Lying so still before me<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">I feel that soon the soul will fly.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">I feel the presence of the ancestors<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Who came before and who now wait<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">To be reunited in spirit with this one.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Life is so rich and full and wonder filled<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">And so must be the passage that this one is soon to make.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">I recall that You have taught me that<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">The idea of life and death is all an illusion.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">You said think of it as a dream,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Consider the waking dream<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Consider the sleeping dream<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Ask often, \u201cDid I dream this?\u201d<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">You remind me time and again<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #808000;\">To not take this place so personally.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">This is\u00a0an opportunity for me to<br \/>\nPractice letting go of my need to<br \/>\nHave things be different than they are.<br \/>\nI will weave a frame of holiness<br \/>\nAround this one and trust that<br \/>\nThere is no death<br \/>\nFor it is love that brings us here and<br \/>\nIt is love that keeps our ancestors alive. <\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808000;\">Amen<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2719 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A-Deep-Hunger.jpg?resize=299%2C299\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A-Deep-Hunger.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A-Deep-Hunger.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/A-Deep-Hunger.jpg?w=740&amp;ssl=1 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: #808000;\">A Deep Hunger #5, Drozda, Acrylic\/board, 18 x 18&#8243;, 2006<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">As we prepare to exit the Mystery Quadrant\/Winter Quarter and enter the ME Quadrant\/Spring Quarter I invite you to <em><strong>lean into the dream<\/strong><\/em>. See what holds the passion to propel your deepest vision outward during the coming season of Clarity, Wisdom and Radiant Brilliance. See what your treasure is destined to bring forth&#8230;as we turn our attention toward jumping back in the saddle welcoming the spring!<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #808000;\">~ I look forward to seeing you next time on the art\/life trail ~<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the art\/life trail! I&#8217;m so glad that you are here. Within a few short weeks we will jump back into the saddle and begin a fresh\u00a0ride around the Natural New Year. \u00a0On the art\/life trail we&#8217;re tracking each next step in the ongoing and unlimited creative process. 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