I’ve been drawing lately, trying to capture some of what I see around me in colored pencil. Trying to understand moments of unscheduled time as opportunities to create. Patches of color. A square of my favorite rug. The evergreens just beyond my window. It’s meditative work, requiring me to focus on the images emerging on the page even as I allow my hand to move in sync with the visuals floating through my mind. Making art out of my life is a new experience for me, one of many new experiences this year of personal exploration and growth delivered to me day by day.
One year ago I founded KIVUN Coaching. I designed, ordered and shared out business cards. I purchased a web domain. I signed all the necessary papers to register and incorporate my new business in the State of New York. I opened a business account at my local bank and paid my first bill with my KIVUN Coaching credit card. I even launched a website full of my writings and photographs and conceptualizing of what it means to be a client of mine. And, and, I coached. Week by week, month by month, I witnessed amazing human beings recognize their own magnificence and power and agency. I am humbled by the stories they shared with me along the way, deeply grateful for the trust they placed in me as those stories tumbled forth.
Today I find it hard to imagine my life without this foundational work. I walk through an expanded world each day, full of people whose voices and visions add depth and dimension to all I experience. I see differently. I listen differently. I respond differently. I travel in directions no longer hidden from me, along paths that welcome me in with a wink and a nod as if to say, “You made it! Welcome to the life only you can live.” And I draw. At the drop of a hat, I draw. Who knew??