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Today, my friend Maria and I painted stars on the walls of the Meditation room. The paint is silvery. Sparkly. Etheric. Maria’s an artist. I am not. So we practiced a bit on some cardboard. We laughed. We practiced until it felt easy. Fluid. We made a swooping splash of stars around the doorway. They trailed across the wall of sky. Then we painted another trail across the adjacent piece of sky. We kept switching places, because our styles were quite different. Maria taught me to step back and just look. This was a great lesson for me. I tend to dive in and hold my breath until a project’s finished, not looking at the big picture until it’s over and too late to change anything. But she reminded us both to stop, observe, see where it was headed and how we liked that. It gave us the space to ponder things and decide where we wanted to take this project. I’m going to practice this “stepping back” more in other aspects of my life too. I love the results. I also loved the process. Thank you Maria!
Maria Painting the Stars.
The blessings of friendship.
Stairway Healing Arts Center 
After I “discovered” the moon….I also realized that there are stars up there too! Who knew! And what I learned also from having their presence in my life is that art of stepping back that you talk of….THANK YOU so very much for the beautiful reminder that the stars are there and that just as ancient navigators would “chart the starts” it’s always helpful to “step back” to see where I am and where I’ve been to more clearly chart the way to where I want to go. And I do so love star-gazing….so it’s gonna be easy!
Otha! Exactly! You describe it beautifully. Thank you!
I’m excited to meditate under the stars! I love “stepping back” and the way friendship creates such deep beauty. Thanks for the post!
Thank YOU, Athena! I’m looking forward to us all meditating together under the stars too.
The first picture of the kid painting the stars really captures what it was like to paint them with you Mandy.
I know, right?! I really did feel like that. Thank you so much, Maria. It really was fun!