a little bit of it all coming together

I went to a meeting of people who were involved in the Wild School.  To discuss what happens next with it.  If anything.  To mull a little on what worked and what didn't work.  It ended up being a really inspiring conversation about the essence of The Wild School.  And it all started to sound very much aligned with idea I have had floating around my brain for a very long time. 

I wrote on a piece of paper in a burst of inspiration that other day.  About what my work is.  Or my purpose.  Or even what it is I am really interested in. 

(provide / inspire )

pure magical energy and connection between human souls

Or maybe it is what I am looking for?  Either way, along with the words, Engaged, Curious, Vibrant & Brave.  Its  has become a little guiding principle of mine.  It can operate in any situation.  Whether I am teaching yoga, or art or how to make the most of your working day.  Though in the last one, I won't be mentioning pure magical energy (unless someone else does).  It will be something that I will bring to the table.  I think people, as much as they might not want to start talking about magic or energy, do recognise when it is there.  And probably the word magic, or magical only resonates with me.  OR certain types of people.  I know what I mean and you can probably describe it in other ways.  At the end of the day, I am not even sure it is something I can definitely muster up.  It requires a bit of, well, magic to actually happen.  But it can be an intention.  Because I do believe we all crave it.  Whether we articulate it or not.  And I am well aware that the articulation of it, can lead down all sorts of shutting off for many people.  You have to be able to describe it in a way that doesn't put someone off.  Actually scrub that.  You don't have to describe it at all.  Like I said, I think it can be sensed when it is there.  Like when a piece of music is brilliant.  Or an idea just grabs you and lights you up.  Or when someone is enthusiastic about something.  That energy rubs off. 

So.  then there is the finding a tribe.  This has been a quest of mine since arriving in Brighton.  It takes a while to find your people.  You know its funny, that the more I find 'my tribe' the more everybody becomes part of my tribe.  Maybe the connection thing is not specific?

I think I am going off on a tangent here.  Let me haul it back in to  - The Wild School.  The DIY art school.  The if I won the lottery I would go to art school thing.  The DIY retreat.  That going away with a bunch of people and eating together and sharing our skills and knowledge and by doing that creating a bond that cannot be created any other way.  I could go on and on about all of these things.  All of them matter to me.  And all of them feel really really right for me to be doing.  Building community, food, tribe, art, learning, sharing.  All of it.   Even a symbol that reoccurs in my art.  The little red house.  The little red house.  Apparently they have lots of these in Norway.  I don't know what it all means.  But I have this theory.  Actually its not mine.  Its Milan Kundera's.  We have a poetic mind.  And we will link together things which to us, start to feel like poetry, they ring true, they create a pattern.  We keep moving forward, and the dots form a pattern behind us, joining together to make sense. 

So, some patterns are forming.  It feels poetic.  I am enjoying it.  It feels right.  Who knows where it will lead.  But somehow its the right path for me to be on.