Sometimes my heart Breathes on Paper

Sometimes My Heart Breathes on Paper © 2004 Julie Jordan Scott"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."Charles DickensSometimes my heart breathes on paper.It pours stuff out that I didn't even know was there, way deep down in the bottom of the well, feelings and colors and sounds and tastes and wretched memories tumble forth.I sometimes get embarrassed by the volume or the pitch or the vulnerable place I put myself -apparently voluntarily only it doesn't feel like I am the one doing the volunteering."Why did you have to go and do that!" my inner critic mocks. "You went and made a fool of yourself again. Why can't you just be satisfied with being like everyone else?"Sometimes my inner critic looks remarkably like my eldest brother. Sometimes my inner critic looks like Miss Pizarro, my third grade teacher. Sometimes my inner critic looks exactly like my reflection in the mirror when I wake up after an unsatisfying sleep.I have learned to gently hush the harshness of my critic because when my heart breathes on the paper, magic happens. I connect to the divine. I move effortlessly through history, space and time by listening to the rhythmic pulses of my heart, the responding woooosh of the blood through my veins as it celebrates, rejoicing "I will keep beating, yes, I will take care of you, yes - I love you."Long ago William Woodsworth wrote the words, "Fill the paper with the breathings of your heart" and his breathings have now reached across the ages to your breathings and your heart. He climbed over and past his critic, through his failures and successes, celebrated the rhythmic pulses and responding wooosh to be a part of your life today. His legacy remains beyond the words alone.Maxwell Anderson wrote: "If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It will fill your heart. "Yes, Mr. Anderson, it will fill your heart. And if we are especially blessed, it will fill the hearts of others as well.Pulse by pulse, breath by breath, yes by yes, word by word.
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