🌸 you are a dream fulfilled 🌸
hello from my very first artist's residency
I am away at my very first artist’s residency. Two weeks to deeply rest, be taken care of, nourished by the mountains & lake & beautiful souls around me. To write, and perhaps, not to write. Last night one of the residency founders shared that 5 years ago, this was just a dream—to one day create a space for artists to retrieve their souls and return to their true nature. We were hand-picked to be here, the dream fulfilled. My new friend next to me turned to me and said, “Did you get that? We are a dream fulfilled. Me and you—we are the dream.” And damn, that hit me.
I am my own dreams fulfilled, living as a fully expressed artist, in alignment with my soul’s purpose. I am my ancestors’ dreams fulfilled. I am sustained, deeply loved & loving, and my truest, most authentic self. Some of my ancestors were pre-colonial Filipino indigenous healers called babaylans, and were persecuted for sharing their gifts. Here I am, generations later, alive. And while my gifts aren’t celebrated in every space I’m in, they are growing stronger & stronger every day, finding their place in the spaces and people that are meant to have them.
As I move through the unknowns of transition, I’m reminded that there are things that I deeply know. The things that matter, the things that anchor and root me in this one, beautiful, and wild life. For that, I am grateful.
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