A World Reframed

Click on photoOver the course of my transformational studies, I have seen that it can take an epiphany of epic proportions to catalyze permanent change. So, as I peck away at a book proposal this summer, written words seem only a skeleton to the full-bodied message I am aching to convey. Seeking solace in my favorite titles, I scoured my shelves to see what the masters had to say. However, each sentence only had significance if I had lived it, for better or worse, in some way. Elegant expressions, yellowed pages and highlighted statements that I was SURE would lead to an earth-shattering about-face. Yet, alas, Amazon shareholders cashed out their profits while my stubborn psyche remained. I cannot speak to anyone else’s experience, but perhaps you feel the same…I had to LIVE life with the intention of learning from it to become the person I am today.

Even in my darkest moments, I have known an empowered perspective was sitting next to me with hands folded, begging to be reclaimed. Yet, it takes persistent practice to free ourselves from routine reactions. It takes a labor of love to liberate our incarcerated brains. We need to lay fresh hopeful eyes on cemented certainties, and link our individual struggles to humanity’s collective chain. It is a gift of our evolution that we can now stand outside our circumstances with blessed objectivity. When we stay stubbornly stuck in our sad stories, we are dissing our dynamic DNA. Possibility is born when we own the power of perspective and realize that even our most obstinate opinions can change.

So, while I return to my words; my skeleton, fleshing out the one-dimensional page, please click on the photo to enjoy this 8-minute experiential journey. It is a compilation I created out of images to the song Three in One by Gerald Brunskill. It is titled, “A World Reframed”...