A lonely street lamp. “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” - Margaret J. Wheatley
Creative South was held there. The design convention was wonderful. But during the whole thing, this very deep, very passionate part of me felt sad as I couldn't help thinking of how I wished I could have been singing on that stage. Sometimes, I wish I had followed the path of singing opera even though at that time, it didn't feel like the right choice. Every so often I feel a slightly painful ache that I chose the way I did. But, I trust the Lord had other plans for me. And, life's not over yet.
"In sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came. That voice which calls to me...and speaks my name."
I suppose an airplane will be the closest I ever get to flying. I have always envied each animal that gets to experience that sense of freedom for even just a moment. Maybe it is my inner reaction to conflict or maybe it's simply a need for freedom that I brought with me upon birth. But David Foster Wallace once said:
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
And I think that is a calling to face conflict and ignore the lie that freedom comes only with being alone. I am not sure even the greatest loner of loners want to be "lonely". I think they want most to be understood for their need of space and to not hurt others with that need.
200 Peachtree. "That I've got 200 more miles of rain asphalt in line before I sleep But there'll be no warm sheets or welcoming arms to fall into tonight
They say that I am crazy my life wasting on this road that time will find my dreams scared or dead and cold
But I heard there is a light drawing me to reach an end and when I reach there, I'll turn back and you and I can begin again" - The Cowboy Junkies (w/ Ryan Adams)
After doing some research I discovered this mural was done by the artist REMED and part of Living Walls, an organization that promotes street art, which I think is pretty nifty.
