OMNISCIENCE

If you were writing the story of your life—and you are—would you be using the voice of the first person, active or removed, the second (as your subconscious often does), or the voice of the omniscient? It would behoove your long vision to use the voice of the omniscient (the deity voice), of course, to be able to see the road long ahead by having the information available from all of every mind, all of the voices and intentions that affect your protagonist and her world.

Are you writing your own story in this way? Are you looking up the roads ahead of you, inside the minds of those who affect your forward story? Are you seeing the big picture, sensing your way through the story arc, anticipating its many climaxes, denouements, turns and twists as you negotiate your journey? If all of the world is a stage, do you know the name of the play and what role it is you have undertaken? Do you know your lines? Are you savvy to the rewrites as they are made?

Are you an Orator? A Humorist? A Satirist? A Contemplative Tragist?

Do you work behind masks, silent? Do you employ metaphor? Do you let movement make words for you? Are you the Wind? Are you Avarice? Love? Do you show the audience how Greed and Lust can undermine the community and bring it to ruin?

Are you mounting the stage in many acts with birds of feather, colors bold like Rio in Carnival? Do you celebrate in lose, tawdry delight, bringing the blood and sweat close to the surface where the animal remembers the entry of First Spirit at the Firelight?

Do you glide in dance steps, light and pink, sparkling, merrily leading into thane and twyle, removing dread for those who fear the dark wood? How do you mount your play? How do you dress your stage? How do you dream your players and sing their songs?

What is the name of this, your life? Is it Omniscient?

Blessed Be This Day

This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe,

Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me
from the other side of the veil.

March 5, 2014

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