“Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderous sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade. But do not be disheartened, the source they come from is eternal – growing, branching out, giving new life and new joy.” – rumi I sat by my window most of one year observing a tree, watching the leaves fall, the snow balance, and then the life return. I sat and wrote. I wondered about all the things that I question, the doubts that arise so easily in some areas, and all the things I never question. I had lived in that house almost 15 years and I never doubted the leaves would fall. I never questioned their return. It was a strong healthy tree. That year, I had more confidence in that tree than I had in myself. My doubts were loud, my inner critic was working overtime. But somehow in watching that tree, in writing my thoughts down day after day, I began to recognize my own seasons, the ups, the downs, the in betweens. I began to understand how natural it was to shift from growing to resting, from moving fast to being still. I gave myself permission to let sorrow and joy fade knowing that they would each return and then fade again. My mantra from that understanding is “Be Here Now.” I try to keep my mind in this present moment, in the room where I am, in the comfort of now.

Margaret Lipsey

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We go through life, unaware of all the twists, all the decisions, all the subtle changes we go through to become who we are becoming. We stand unaware of our magic and our gifts settling into the mediocre and the monotonous. Until one day a spark lights within, or a conversation illuminates, or a tragedy requires us to finally see all that we are.  The fullness of ourselves, our power, and our potential. And then suddenly all the choices, all that we have gathered and learned and become, transforms into a beautiful mosaic. We begin to understand that we are here to add to the ourselves until we are filled up with all the pieces of who we are. No matter how disparate they seem. No matter how strange. My work is my pathway to understanding my own mosaic, to filling it up, to discovering more of the pieces. It is ever shifting, never-ending, and becoming more of who I truly am as the years pass. My hope is that it will help you discover something within you that has been waiting to be seen, that has been waiting to be embraced, and that will add to the mosaic of who you are.