Dear Community, Those I know and those I have yet to meet. I am navigating a very challenging crossroads in this full moon of my life. And yet I am here, showing up in the way I know how - through self-expression and loving you, and yes, choosing myself too. I hope something in here is worthwhile! We shall see! Intentional Creativity is our chosen addiction around here because it works!
Sue, my art Matriarch used to say to us: Paint like your life depends on it. Well. I am. And I am also writing and drawing as if my life depends on it. In a way, it does. I am not afraid of dying with my story within me, I am not trying to make a point. I don’t know why I have to do this, I just know I have to. I trust it will be revealed, because that is how art works when you are in it for the reason of exploration and inquiry. So I am saying yes. I hope I can honor my family in doing so and perhaps, release some of my own trauma in the process and complete my life. Yes, I am preparing for a good death and to be a good stewards while I am alive, to be good company for the original stewards and to become a good ancestor to my community.
If you feel called to contribute, then please do. It means to the world to artists, poets, storytellers, when people see the value in their work. Of course it isn’t about the money, it is about the exchange of energy that investment that readership acknowledges. (and fyi sometimes substack asks you to pay and the writer is not asking you so unless you see the request in a post, it is not me asking) Anyone who subscribes will get the FULL PDF of the book when it is done and more but I don’t know what else yet.
My hope is to publish every two days and to have posts be between 10-11 minutes for the next 100 days. So 50 chapters, with original illustrations. So my memoir is doing a take over on Tea with the Muse for now.
I don’t know what the book is going to be called - but we are making a hard copy in the process too. At first I called it the Cosmic Cowgirl Supper Club and Sanctuary lol - but we shall see. Maybe we can vote.
I want it to be FUN and it will be. Yet I have some very hard stories to tell that I have never told. Gulp. Let’s get this party started. As the Cosmic Cowgirls always say - If you aren’t shaking in your boots, you aren’t even listening.
Love. Trust. Dare. Pray. Create. (Our family motto)
Shiloh Sophia
This is the path of my Mitrochondrial DNA
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