Expanding Vision

Why Expanding Vision? 

As we grow, changes enter our lives and many of the ceremonies and rituals we have used no longer convey our experience.  We find ourselves in need of new ways to express ourselves and ways to share this with others. 

These special times in our lives that we mark with ceremonies and rituals need new words, new ways of expressing what is taking place. 

New understanding and events arise and we want to create new traditions — or we may want to refresh the old. 

The foundation for this work is the stories, traditions and gifts of our ancestors that give shape to our awarness as we move, live and breathe beyond traditions that no longer speak to us. 

Along the way it is important to tell our stories by creating different ways to recognize and mark these important places along our path.  Sharing these times with others can be one of our gifts both to ourselves and to the universe. 

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us.  To create means to relate.  The root meaning of the word art is “to fit together” and we all do this every day.  Not all of us are painters but we are all artists.  Each time we fit things together we are creating— whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day. 
Corita Kent