This thing exists

Good or bad

Joyous or sad or fractious and intense

Within a border

Within a fence

Whilst ever I can keep it there

A frame

I can reframe

No matter what comes along

Make it say love

Instead of confusion

Make it say love

Instead of grief

Place other things beside it

So it has company when it weeps

As an artist

I can do anything at all

I keep emotions in frames

And hang them on my wall

That way they are safely

Well

Away

From

Me

*If only it was that easy! But working with thoughts, which cause the emotions in the first place, becomes so much easier the more I see that I really am creating my reality every moment. Perhaps by the time I am 80 I may even manage to be calm all the time, but then, isn’t it the ups and downs on the heart machine that tell us we are alive?

Reframing is certainly useful though, I’ll keep trying.

On Instagram I’m up to date 24 of my photography challenge. It isn’t just the daily taking of photos, it is also the daily use of a social media platform (I don’t count WP as social media) that’s teaching me things.

Mostly that the greater part of art is consistency, trying, continuing and listening to our own heart and intuition. There are so many great photographers on social media, it’s easy to compare yourself and think “why bother?”

Because they show you where you want to be, where you can be, if you keep showing up. Plus I love it.

Have a great day, and keep reframing those pesky doubts and dreary grouches.