What's Inspiring Me...

Every now and then I reach a cross roads and a turning point.  I'm not sure if this is something "new" as it seems to happen more and more often or if they have always been happening but I'm only now more aware of the fact.  Maybe in the past I came to those cross roads and just moved in a direction without thinking about it.  Perhaps it is my awareness of "seeing" a cross roads that has made me more aware of the fact that they occur on a frequent basis.  I'm at one of those cross roads now.  I feel right now like I'm bursting with ideas and with promises...of things I want to set out to accomplish but have only managed to fulfill half way.  There is a need for clarity and purpose and I'm unable to see that because of a "haze".  That might just be the extreme heat talking but I think it's deeper than that.  I'm not struggling or stressing with it, I'm just allowing it to appear by keeping my focus on what is it that I want, what is it that I can do and how am I going to achieve that.  What inspires me about getting to that "place" is this excerpt from a letter written by Martha Graham to Agnes DeMille.

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"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. The world will not have it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how valuable it is nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you.

Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than others."

- Martha Graham, this quotation comes from a letter written by Martha Graham to her biographer, Agnes DeMille

I love the idea of keeping the channel open.  Leaving room for ideas to flow in and ideas to flow out and in keeping the channel open, it is my hope that the focus of where it is I am next meant to travel will reveal itself.