The Kindness Project

There is much poetry that speaks about the abundance of beauty in our environment.

Places we can visit.

Places created by God or nature.

Spaces we can go to be and heal ourselves, revive ourselves.

I am not much of a poet. And only mildly a creative.

But, maybe, not every space meant to heal is out in nature or a destination to visit.

Maybe it's a small shed, that some crazy women thought she would convert into a sacred room with her blood sweat and tears.

Maybe it's the depth of her presence that she has been working on for many years.

I wasn't really sure that I could make what was inside my head become a real thing. The first image was my inspo pic!! I put photos of everything into chatgpt(Chad IYKYK) and it spat out the perfect vision.

For the past two weeks or so, I set about making it happen.

Each piece added with the intention of what my space will be used for.

The seagulls, a reminder of my favourite book.
The canvas, my own design with my favourite poem.
My little unicorn, because Magic of course.
Green, my favourite colour, and nature🌳🌲
The little cottage, reminds me of my grandparents 💞

Today, I will be adding one of the final pieces. A note, or letter of intention to my space, a prayer maybe. Allowing my dreams for my work to flow out, for what I hope to become a reality.

This is more than new decor, I am excited to change up what I do and how I do it. I am looking forward to the new, and taking people through a new journey and helping them move forward in life while coming back to themselves.

The room is, almost, done. Now its time to build the next part of my project.

🙏🏻🫶

My office is currently looking in quite the state!!

I have pulled everything off the walls, half the walls are painted. Half of the ceiling is done, because I ran out of paint!!!

Today was trip to Ikea for the floor to ceiling-wall to wall curtains and lighting strip....eeepppp!!! It's going to look beautiful....once I install them, I am totally sure it is easy.

A few days ago, I made my own canvas artwork. It is the cover of a book I recently made for myself, and I have completed it with my favourite poem over the image, The Worst Thing - By Chelan Harkin.

The other picture I ordered today, from the UK. It is a flock of seagulls. I have two favourite books, Oh the Places You Will Go, by Dr Suess, and Johnathon Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. I read this book when I was 16 and its message has stuck with me for my lifetime.

It helped me understand why I always felt like a bit of an outcast, it gave a me a radical acceptance of self. That acceptance has taken a few hits over the years, but I feel like it would be hard to knock these days as I have made a strong devotion my own existence in this lifetime.

Slowly but surely, around the doing of life, my space is coming together. I am excited for new offerings, and the beauty of the moments that will eventually take place in this sacred space.

So excited......

Here is the beautiful poem by Chelan. Below I will add her reading of it. It is so special to hear.

The Worst Thing
By Chelan Harkin

The worst thing we ever did
was put God in the sky
out of reach pulling the divinity
from the leaf,

sifting out the holy from our bones,
insisting God isn’t bursting dazzlement
through everything we’ve made
a hard commitment to see as ordinary,
stripping the sacred from everywhere
to put in a cloud man elsewhere,
prying closeness from your heart.

The worst thing we ever did
was take the dance and the song
out of prayer
made it sit up straight
and cross its legs
removed it of rejoicing
wiped clean its hip sway,
its questions,
its ecstatic yowl,
its tears.

The worst thing we ever did is pretend
God isn’t the easiest thing
in this Universe
available to every soul
in every breath.