For the one who believes it, a blessing can signal the start of a journey of transformation.*
John O’Donohue

An artist knows the aesthetic choices only come alive on paper. As a writer, it’s your job to write draft after draft, to improvise, to play one beat against the next, toss ideas around in your imagination and then write them down.**
Robert McKee

A blessing is
encouragement, permission,^ and
grand hope that may be
all a person needs to set upon a journey
of actioning their dreams,
finding themselves transformed in the process –
So it is for me, I think.

We do not have to be a writer
or artist to appreciate that drafts are how
we move forward –
If we wait for the perfect there will be
no forward momentum –
so we explore, experiment,
Fail, and try again and
again.

You don’t need my blessing –
But you have it:
Bless yourself.

*John O’Donohue’s Benedictus;
**Robert McKee‘s newsletter: Why Creativity Takes Work;
^Or the promise not to put up barriers