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“The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become ‘somebody,’ and frankly, I don’t have the least ambition to become anybody.”

Frida Kahlo

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in the end, we are all just holy ghosts,

ghosts who sometimes want to feel, or be seen, or be felt by others who are also seeking, whether they know it or not — whether they become known forever after or become, forever unknown — to us.

if anyone were to speculate — or attempt to draw definitions or executive summaries about me — as one particular, ambitionless, ghostly being

as a mother, poet, crone and Earthling — about my collection of words, opinions, ideas, poems, photos, ephemera, art, beliefs or altars — now, or when i’m dead and gone,

— in the end, and at the beginning,
this is and was, always a place for me to fundamentally
better understand

my Self — for my self & by my self.

for me,

to try to understand my relationship to Others, to the World, to the Earth;

and also,

for me,

to try to understand my relationship to my creativity – the conception, process and act of creating

and finally,

to try to understand this strange existence, in and of itself.

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no one else has ever been essential to experience, interact with, interpret, interrogate or validate any of it — of mine, ever — yet, they are welcomed to do so — if they happen upon me

yet, my nearest and dearests don’t even know this collection exists

the imperative in my work and in my art was/is not to be known — or understood by another — even though, even when that exquisitely rare authentic experience occurs – it can elicit (temporal) feelings of true connection,

further, being appreciated or critiqued by some human being is not a proxy for being truly known and understood by another human being;

and although communion, consummation, and collaboration in experiencing, creating, publishing or releasing art can be gratifying, challenging, inspiring and evolutionary, or occasionally,

revolutionary,

i vow to always remember:

all my collaborators are personal ghosts — psychological, emotional, historical, literary, political, physical or metaphysical;

i Am my own muse;

&

i Am ultimately my holy, and wholly complete, audience of one, always,

because,

“in the end, you will find [only] yourself at the beginning”

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These Full Moon in Leo incantations for artists and creatives by Cristina Rombi are powerful; please find her on Instagram.

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