Hellion of Troy #317

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"I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us. We don't have to rely totally on experience if we can do things in our imagination.... It's the only way in which you can live more lives than your own."
-Mary Oliver
"Beside the fire, as the wood burns black, a laughing dancer in veils of light, whose dance transforms the darkness to gold." - Adu Abd Allan ben Abi-l-Khisal
"I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am."

"Let me fling my life like a flaming firebrand into the gathering darkness of the world." -Albert Schweitzer
Being okay with yourself is the most necessary thing for being able to live your life right. To know yourself, to respect yourself, to be unafraid to say what you think or do what you want to do and to make no apologies to anyone for who and what you are, to be unafraid to step away from those who try to stifle that about you or tell you that you are wrong for being honest. You must find your Self, hold it, nurture it, learn to live comfortably with it even when it makes others uncomfortable.
I am ME. I am a Roller Derby Chick. I am a bellydancer, moving with the earth in strong beauty. I play with fire. I am a survivor of domestic abuse. I am a human being with a VOICE. I am proudly and beautifully tattooed, and it's not over yet. I am a nerd. I am a huge potty-mouth. I'm loud and blunt and honest. I am compassionate and passionate. I adore spontaneity but I also like to make plans. I'm a big goober and I love to laugh. I believe that stuffed animals have feelings. I like to climb trees and swing on swings. My roller skates are my favorite shoes. Everything fascinates me. I look at people's stuff because it helps me to know them. I will talk to just about anyone because they might tell me something important that teaches me. I love rich, bright colors. I like to find beauty in all kinds of things and create from it. I find other cultures beautiful and holy. I am spiritually eclectic and I believe in things that make sense to me. I like to hug people. I adore artistic therapy.

"Dance when you're broken open;
Dance when you've torn the bandage off
Dance in the middle of fighting
Dance in your blood
Dance when you're perfectly free.
Struck, the dancer hears a tambourine inside her
Like a wave that crests into foam at the very top begins.
Maybe you don't hear that tambourine or the tree leaves clapping time
Close the ears on your head, they listen mostly to lies and cynical jokes;
There are other things to see, and hear: Music. A brilliant city inside your soul."
- Rumi
My favorite thing about life is that bad things turn into good things. All things will die and be reborn in good time. Whether or not you see that is up to you. Lush, green life grows best when you toss a lot of shit on it. People who have never had to survive bad things are shallow, ignorant, and have no substance because they are not well-rounded souls. Your suffering makes you whole and it gives you compassion when you can be selfless enough to accept it. Life shifts its shape too often to keep up. I stopped having expectations and I just wait to see what happens next.
"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life." - Krishnamurti