Bags The Back Seat .
I like it up the back. Where I can see without them looking. Explore heads and collars. The strings of puppets. Sit unfrozen in a seat unworn. Read the whispers. Tip toe away when I want to go home.
(Originally from ‘Rock The Boat’ series. Now in Clunk & Jam book, 2019)
Sometimes she felt like a wind-up toy that’s lost its key .
Footnote: This ink arrived after a friend of mine told me this was how she was feeling. When I sent her the little girl she asked why the key was part of her head – and why so big? Maybe she’s showing us that the key’s actually been there all along. Perhaps she just lost sight of her own ability to get herself going again? Turn key not lost at all – just run down. Or she’s become unraveled by certain circumstances. The key to getting going again might be in questioning (and in future, avoiding) what initiated her current unraveled state? Well worth some further thought (as her large thinking cap might suggest).
(Clunk & Jam book, 2019)
The trouble with leaving….
Footnote: Often the girls arrive with a whole pile of questions. And from the sorting, comes a degree of clarity, direction and understanding. Questions are like openings…. Where’s she going? Is she leaving?… Or going? … Taking off… To where? Moving on …or getting away? Are these actions all the same or are there subtle differences? What’s holding her back? Keeping her there?
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Army of Ink Salute .
The Army of Ink salutes all the girls who got lost. Those who wish to remain unfound. All the tiny souls that skipped from one to forever, never felt the kiss of a prince and lived unhappily ever after in a dress up box. Now we’re lifting the lid. What about the boys? They can play too.
(Reposted from 2010)
She forever hoped that noone would ever find what she spent every waking hour hiding – and hiding from .
Personal footnote: We all have secrets – and secret fears. And sometimes we have ‘leftover’ fears, the ones we experienced long ago and the threat is actually long over but we feel the fear and respond to it like it’s still fresh and real. This ‘ink’ seems to be suggesting an emptying of pockets to free herself from the lingering things that may still confine her – and/or define her in a negative light.
For some of us, our greatest task in life is to rewire our minds and the ingrained responses it triggers by challenging those fears – replacing them with new experiences. Think … re-filling our pockets with good stuff. Re-shaping ourself. And each time you have a win (or even fail) you get stronger and more confident in doing things you once avoided. Didn’t think you could do. Her arrival seems to pose questions like… what’s stopping you making changes in your life? What are you afraid of? What are you hiding? Hiding from? What’s stopping you going places outside of your comfort zone? ‘Feel the fear It’s how we grow. Her waffle pants seem to suggest space for the filling – room to move?
(She appears in Clunk & Jam, 2019)
She put her hand on her heart while she carefully collected her thoughts.
Her heart was threatening to launch itself right out of her chest. She felt she was losing hold of what was real and what was not. So she took herself aside to a quiet spot with truth firmly in hand, in heart and in somewhere in the book.
Footnote: She looks almost ready for blast off in those heels, but someone suggested perhaps quiet, considered steps might be a safer way to travel.
