moon woman

Do you ever feel so connected to everything

that you could just reach out 

and touch the moon?

This started out as a watercolor

but i changed my mind rather quickly

and decided it needed bolder colors.

Especially for the moon and stars...

I had sketched this quickly

after a long evening walk

during the last full moon,

knowing that it would eventually

make it to my journal.

...there's just something about the moon

and a star filled sky,

isn't there?

A bit of added outline & detail

and yes, dots.

:-)

I don't have long flowing hair,

and her boobs are far more perfect than mine ;-)

and yet - I am a woman.

I am she

and she is me

and on this night

we both reached out

and touched the moon.

the stars...

I've been thinking lately about

the pressure some people put on themselves

to be "in the know".

The pressure to be the best,

and to blog, and Facebook, and Twitter and Google

and whatever else is out there.

To know everything about everyone

and to reach as many people as they can

and keep everyone up to date

on their own happenings

practically every hour of the day.

For some, every few minutes of the day. :-)

I think some of us have lost the ability

to just be with ourselves,

gadget free.

Maybe it's a generation thing.

Maybe i'm just getting old. 

:-(

There are interesting

and intriguing lives out there,

but many of us are so busy

living someone else's definition of success,

or trying to imitate the lives of others,

we've forgotten how to live our own.

We've forgotten our own definitions 

of success

or happiness

or how much is enough.

It's easy to feel left behind

or not part of the loop sometimes.

I think it's important to remind ourselves now & then

that in this age of technology

and the need to know everything about everyone

every waking hour of the day -

it really doesn't matter in the end.

it's ok not to know sometimes...

and just be with the stars in the sky

instead of the cell phones.

So cut yourself some slack,

and give yourself permission

to live like the Flintstones. 

:-)