I am saddened when I come across the mention of race by color. I am saddened that still people are called black or white or brown or yellow.
We are called out for the shades of our skin, when the truth is, we are so much more. We cannot be confined or defined by narrow eyes.
The fact is, people, see colors differently, and they may not see all the same colors while seeing the same things. There is research on how our individual brains react differently to different wavelengths of light.
Technically speaking the colors we see is an illusion created by our brain. We are not yet certain exactly how animals see perceive us and in which colors.
Why then this prejudice in words to describe life.
Humanity knows no color or creed.
Why are we still resorting to identify people into boxes, giving way to mental pictures, and conformity?
We are capable of liberating ourselves to see the bigger picture.
A dance article recently published an article that sends out a message of how Misty Copeland is a black dancer who succeeds.
Yes, we have an unequal world filled with all the ‘isms’ and the issues they bring along. It is unfair and discriminatory and biased in so many ways. Not just in race, but in species, gender, age, weight, height, class, creed, caste, religion, status, authority, education, power, and wealth.
Yet the inner light of the being surmountable all odds. And life shines through the heart of the movements.
The world must come together, as it is time to release these frames of false convictions and find in itself the ability and strength to support one another in the power of life that’s beating within us all.
Let us see beauty and talent in all colors and not attribute efforts and success to any color by birth.
When we remove reference of being a particular color we bring to light the truth of the soul and the spirit of freedom to be.
In that light, everything is illustrated in the illumination from within.
Savvy
What does it take to lead?
To lead is to dare
To make the way
For others to follow
Who is a good leader?
A good leader sets an example
To demonstrate how it is done
So others can act upon it.
A good leader is a motivator
Encouraging the team in self-belief
Ever ready to appreciate and trust.
The art of good leadership
Is about taking the plunge
A leap of faith in trust and hope
What does it take to follow?
To follow takes a response
To the action taken
In complete faith and trust.
Who is a good follower?
A good follower is alert
To act upon directions given
To take orders to completion.
A good follower is a team player
Ever ready to learn some more
And increase efficiency at work.
Always helps to remember…
Both a leader and follower are required
There is no leader without a follower
And there can be no follower without a leader.
Savvy
Trust light to shine itself
Trust the shadows to find light
All is not dark forever
For light shimmers on shadows
What’s hidden uncovers itself
At some point or the other
Trust in time
Develop patience
Patterns are meant to shape
And change itself along the way
What shines has shadows
And shadows shimmer too!
Keep the faith
Shadows will find the light
All is meant to be well and bright.
Savvy
Sharing a poignant prose I came across that says much and is very relevant to the state of being in the world we are in.
Happy reading & writing to all my fellow readers and writers.
Savvy
Who says the page is empty?
There is poetry that is waiting to emerge
Who says the mind is blank?
There are surging thoughts full of potential.
Who says there is stillness in the silence
Stillness is overflowing with movements.
Who says the night is dark
There is light awaiting dawn!
A blank canvas is full of possibilities
Of creativity in all its flourishes in the flow.
There is the color of hope
There are patterns arising in perspectives.
There is forming and shaping of things to come
There is composition awaiting the sensing
All it needs is your faith in the envisioning.
For faith is all there is
In faith there is everything!
Savvy
Life is a dance
In learning the flow
Waltzing the waves
As they come and go.
Life is a journey
Of the rise and the fall
Of the swing and the sway
Waltzing through time.
Life can be like a waltz
Shaping through the moves
Of souls stepping in tandem
Of tuning in the synchrony.
Life is a waltz
Through the ups and downs
Take this waltz of life
And ease in to the flow!
Savvy
Every morning is a proof
Of another shift in her axis
By our mother earth.
We are wiser by a day
After each and every night
To emerge anew at dawn.
Let our dawn spring forth in freshness
Of our spirit for living life well.
Let us discard the spurious.
Let us work with empathy for nature
Respectful of their presence in our lives.
For we are made of the very elements of nature.
Nature is in each of us.
Earth wind fire and water and space…
We are a force of nature.
Let us move with care
Let us proceed with dignity
And never take ourselves for granted.
Let us recognize the infinite intelligence
Bestowed in our being by nature
Let us be the best expression of our being.
As we move closer to our authenticity.
We will resonate to the truth of our life .
We will move closer to the purpose of being.
A beautiful blessed day to you all!
Savvy
“To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.” – Confucius
What is so difficult about the letting go?
Is it the fear of not being able to have it again when you need it most?
Or is it about the holding on to memories that were?
Or is it the attachment to things that is most difficult to release?
When we realize how dispensable we are and how transient is our being…
We will begin to see the world with a fresh pair of eyes.
We will know, nothing is given
Neither our lives nor our nature
Every manifestation must evolve
To another state in the flow
Then we may perhaps be able
To accept letting go as part of the flow!
Savvy
Your Three Words…
These last 3 days of sharing my artworks has been quite an enjoyable experience. It has opened up new vistas of thoughts in envisioning.
My Painting on Day 3 was titled :
The Spirit of Dance
Many of your Word interpretations were quite in synch with it.
Wanted to reflect the simple joy of dance movements in the freedom of being, each as unique as the dancer.
Thoroughly enjoyed reading and responding to each of your creative responses for all three of my artworks.🙏🏼
All of your words are truly incredible and so very imaginative.
Thank you so much for joining in this little experiment in creativity.
Hope to share more of my works and continue this series in the future.
Speaking about my artworks that I posted…
All these Artworks are my paintings from back in time that I happened to chance upon again. I wanted to see if they still meant the same to me in time. I then thought of sharing it in a post the way I did, just for the little collaborative creativity and joy in the sharing.
The multitude of meanings in it, for each of you and the interpretations put forth in the responses were truly each a journey in itself.
In these times of lockdowns the world has had time to pause and reflect and has perhaps chosen to engage with varied creative enrichments in much deeper and fulfilling ways.
Do let me know if you enjoyed playing along these last three days as much as I did.😇
Thank you all again for traveling alongside with me and my artworks for the last three days, as we mutually forged new paths of perceptions in the perspectives. 🙏🏼
Savvy
Yet!
Yet to learn
Some more
Yet to arrive
Somewhere
Yet to evolve
To be all that one can be!
Let’s choose to feel its, yet to ….
To keep the ego at bay
For life is a journey
In the learnings
For a lifetime.
And the spirit of the soul
Is on an eternal quest
Yet to find its salvation.
Savvy
With these words I wrote today, I simply shaped them to depict life and its various transitions in creation to sublimation…
Birthing of creation
Growing in the learnings
Reaching the heights of accomplishment
Learning to grow in grace
Acceptance of inevitable
Sharing in the evolving
Retiring Gracefully
Resting & regenerating.
Such is the unending cycle
A circle of life!
With an idea to encapsulate life in its expansions and contractions and so on…
All is a flow in the circle of life.
Life goes on!
Savvy
This precious life that lives in you
Holds the key to the future
The precious things you will do today
Paves the path for tommorow
Precious thoughts we carry today
Will take us where we believe we are.
Hands heart and head will move as one
In hope and love our life will evolve.
Precious words that you speak today
Gladdens the heart for the future.
The future is truly in our hands today!
Savvy
Stay nice no matter!
Have the kindness to see the good
Disregard and cast off the negative
There will be much that may cloud
your vision.
There is much we do not know
We all have our own stories
Of trials and tribulations
It’s not easy for any of us.
And for some it may just be
A little extra tough these times.
Truly it takes nothing from you
To choose to stay positive
And stay nice no matter!
Our world is having it rough already
Let’s try and make it better
Each of us one kind gesture in time
Let’s leave imprints of kindness
In hearts and souls
Let us empower our spirit
To be hopeful and happy
All is meant to be well
So be kind and do good!
And please stay nice no matter.
Savvy
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