Telling our true stories!
How to find and then tell your life story still matters! It makes meaning obvious, and helps keep us to turn the pages into new chapters.
Learning how to tell our true stories through art, still matters to me. Once, we can read and tell our stories, we see that they are meaningful, valuable. I like helping people do that-find and tell their stories through art! Here’s one of mine i started telling and drawing as a kid!
The man between worlds:
A long time ago, i too, like most young artists, created a mythology of life for myself in this little character of a stick figure walking between worlds. The man who walked between worlds was the narrative. And it was a man like the man on wire, who set a rope between cities and the heavens going through musical notes which were the sky, and joining or at least walking towards the rays of the sun which were hope’s musical Source.
It came from a funnel vision i had when i was younger; in the vision, where I saw Jesus at the end of a huge funnel. The funnel itself was made of music. And as long as I looked only at him i could walk in air, or float, but like St Peter (in my case though on air rather than water); as soon as I looked away, I sunk. In my case limbs would be torn off, and my eyes or gaze seared. If I stared at the demonic the atmosphere outside the funnel of music, i would immediately decay, but if i stayed focused on Jesus, i was free to create in this huge funnel filled with living notes. In my drawings, the people in the music were actually made of notes.
Great vision, and so i did a series of drawings about that stick man who walked between worlds. Thinking of making a children’s book from it now. How to walk between worlds without getting torn apart.
This little character, “Sticks and Bones” i’ve called him since, wore a tall hat, had a cane which could also be used as a balancing pole, and always had a slight smile, and usually a single flower on his hat—a sunflower in fact. I still often think of him as my future self talking to my younger one, and offering hope for the atmospheric journey we all take upwards.
In college, when i first heard about Philipe Petite, back before everything was documented, his symbolic stunt of walking between the world trade centers, a prophetic stunt as it turned out, for I was also there the day those symbols fell; i always thought, that’s amazing, but he is going lateral, in my vision I was going vertical gradually.
In my story, the fellow can also go back and forth between the city’s rooftops and the source of song or heavenly realm. Heaven also is not depicted as everyone in bliss, but as everyone very creative and still learning things.
I’m going to work on this little story again, for all the kids who want to keep climbing towards the stars! Regardless, interesting how when young we make up stories, that we need, in order to know our own!
Learning how to tell your life narrative through different mediums like fairy tale or visual art is a way to remember who we really are. That especially is helpful at certain seasons of life, and builds trust in the Narrator! The One who is telling your story, wants to finish it!
I still love helping people find their true stories and express them. What our lives have to teach can be expressed symbolically, in short! Know your story, to keep telling it, or rather having it be told!
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