"My life so far
Has been like
Trying to put a very large love
Through a pinhole.
I have tried to make myself
Small enough to fit into this world.
But finally the shell has rent in two,
And the shrine of my being has emerged.
We are guided home on an invisible thread -- One day the distance between ourselves and the hole simply disappears.
And then the love fits perfectly.
There is so much work to do in this world --
When we could simply choose
To be estastically happy.
To take rocks and driftwood and build an altar
To all that is good inside us,
And to set our one shining life
On fire."
- Tracey Schmidt
detail from mixed media on paper, circa 2007
