What do Drawing Singing Dancing MUSIC MAKING Handwriting Playing Storywriting Acting Remembering and even Dreaming all have in common? THEY COME ABOUT WHEN A CERTAIN PERSON in a CERTAIN PLACE in a CERTAIN TIME arranges CERTAIN UNCERTAINTIES INTO A CERTAIN FORM.*
Lynda Barry

In a significant organisation … each person is a vital component, adding human insight, care, and commitment to the work at hand. In this environment, there’s no room for someone who is simply compliant.**
Seth Godin

When it comes to doing the
heart and soul thing you must do,
There’s probably been a time when those observing
have believed this to be
the wrong thing in
the wrong place at
the wrong time, making you
the wrong person.

I happened to be reading a bible story^ about
a woman – whom some deemed to be a sinner – gatecrashing
a meal in honour of Jesus and enacting a host’s
footwashing ceremony by
using her own tears and perfumed ointment;
in the eyes of others,
There was nothing right about this, and yet
this woman and her story is remembered
two thousand years later.

Some of the most important contributions have come
from outsiders, for whom
there is no right time, but only
now for bringing their contribution.

We don’t need to begin as dramatically as the woman
in our story, but firstly find small ways of not complying
and build from there.

You already have permission because
you are here.

The fourth and most important function of myth, [Joseph] Campbell says, is to “foster the centring and unfolding of the individual in integrity” with the self (the microcosm); the culture (the mesocosm); the universe (the macrocosm) ; and the pan-cosmic unity, the ultimate creative Mystery, which is “both beyond and within himself and all things.”^^

*Lynda Barry’s What It Is;
**Seth Godin’s The Song of Significance;
^Luke7:36-39;
^^Jean Houston’s A Mythic Life.