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Life is Happening

julsmarie:

1. “Let life happen to you.  Believe me, Life is in the right, always”

-Rainer Maria Rilke

Well life is certainly happening.  Lots of changes, lots of excitment, ups and downs, surprises, laughter, tears, love, and confusion.  Life is certainly happening.  

It was about one year ago that I started this blog, a record of the adventures to come.  That year marker seemed so far off at the time.  Now here I stand, slightly beaten, but surely stronger, and pointed in a new direction.   New York and I had a tumultuous time together, but I’ve always been good at walking away from my relationships at the right time, with the right appreciation for what was good and necessary - with an understanding of why it was important to move through that season.

Once upon a time, when I was much younger, I picked up a book about a boy named Harry Potter and I fell in love with him and his story… and I followed those stories all the way through to the end, and I cried when I closed the final page.   Little did I know that one day that boy and those stories would change the course of my life entirely.

Once upon a time, a little over two years ago, I showed up on a Sunday to paint some set pieces and help out some friends who were preparing to put on a silly musical about that charming Potter boy.  Little did I know that being in the right place at the right time on that Sunday would set in to motion a sequence of events that lead me to this particular moment in time, where Fate has stepped in and placed a new adventure and journey ahead of me with a lovely group of people known as StarKids.

Life certainly happens.  I think it is a fight every day to get out of your own way and allow it.  But it is when I allow myself to die to my own dreams, and relax into the confusion and uncertainty of life, that my truest dreams and desires have actually taken shape right before my eyes.  

And then… you jump.  You lunge and leap into the outline of the life you begged for, you fill in the blanks on your way down.  That moment of peace before the Great Fall.  That instant of stillness right before your heart starts pumping stronger and faster, and you know the time is now, no turning back.  

A new chapter of this blog is beginning, because I want to document every moment of this next coming year.  One day the winds will slow, and the storm will calm, and Ill want to remember every second of the insanity that is about to commence.

Let the games begin. 

Julia, I admire you so very very much. You are beautiful inside & out. Never stop being amazing. <3