Moving Out of Stuck

Sometimes, we get stuck. In relationships with ourselves, with others, and with life. It reminds me of the sticky quality of biscuit dough, when it keeps gluing our fingers together, even after we wash them well. It takes a lot of scrubbing movement to free ourselves from the goo. In my case, the goo is a blend of my authentic experience coupled with some historical shame that has limited the use of my creativity.  So, I have begun the scrubbing movement of launching a creative project called Resume Box, which is a collaged box made from a recycled paper box and images that contains my original voice in resume form. I posted the box to show its current state, where it has been stuck for about 3 years. The intention was to place 3 of my original writings in the box, then put it out into community for others to add their written voices. It was planned as a collective work of healing and mastery. I was unsure of how to track its progress.  I could not guarantee that it would succeed or fail in attracting the participation or even the interest of others. I could not guarantee that any of the offerings would be read or relevant or even kept safe from plagiarism, theft, or inappropriate inclusions.  So, I decided that taking a risk is the better part of life, and I posted the start of the project here. 

My resume offerings will reflect some personal life experiences that include both a blessing and a curse from my childhood as well as a new beginning that expresses my voiced desire to seek a career in the ephemeral creative.  My hope is that others will place their creative writings as "resumes" in the box, that express in some way their desires to seek new ventures in their life. I would like the box to be passed hand to hand to encourage still others to drop their "resumes" in or simply read and consider, "Who it is" that we readers all truly want to be. I seek to invite original, creative writings that express hopes and desires in an authentic and safe way. I want the writings to be freely shared, original, honest, friendly, and considerate to reflect the heart's desires. I hope to launch the box soon and blog about its progress as a collective, community verse of hope and desire for meaningful lives. Just consider for a moment, if you will, Who it is that you really want to be!

Shouting Out: To Kat Kirby for fantastic teaching of a 13 layer collage process.
See her work at: http://2katstudios.com/