The Eye of the World

[Manuel Tavares]

The Eye of the World
By Catherine Viel
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Open your eyes, for this world is only a dream. ~ Rumi

I promised myself yesterday that I would spend some time with sketchbook and drawing pencils…and I did not. There wasn’t anything I absolutely had to do which took up so much time there was none to spare for feeding my soul, but somehow the day slipped away and I neglected to nurture something important.

This morning, while I was waiting for breakfast to heat up, I sat with my ancient yellowing sketchbook and an orange woodless pencil and started shading a single balloon in a drawing I’ve just started.

Before I even touched pencil to paper, a subtle mental shift occurred. It wasn’t so much that the worries that envelop me like a noxious fog just up and vanished. It was that a hum of joy, subdued but steady, overwrote the ominous thrum of worry....+ https://ascensionflame.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-eye-of-world.html