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What becomes possible when we learn to meet a life—not as something defined, but as something still and ever-more revealing itself at each experience and internal willingness to question what is now present?

In my own life, I guess I never outgrew the 4-year old "Why?" stage.  And now at the precipice of 70 years on this planet I still have an insatiable curiosity focused mainly on why humans perceive the ways we do; why our actions and our stated beliefs don't always align; what in a life might bring about an artful kind of inner wholeness, living purpose and meaningful contribution.

In essence: how does one's life move through all its trials, tribulations, successes, unique capacities, fears, and dreams with enough depth of presence that these experiences can gather into a new awareness and spirited self-artistry of meaningful purpose?
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These are  fundamental questions to me. They reach toward seeking pathways that can somehow encompass the full arc of a life and yet not be bound or caught too tightly in any of it: the early experience and conditioning, the adaptations of survival, the boundaries of accomplishments and constructed persona.  

That curiosity has taken some rather different forms over the years: social research and organizational behavior, social-commentary installation works, spiritual inquiry, books, decades of private work with individuals, and now increasingly poetry, painting and song. I find these once separate lifeworks gathering into their own poetic artistry of wholeness.

It is from this awareness that I find myself in a  placeless ground that plays rather like music: ever moving into new temperaments, expressions, experiences ...and yet offering within this remarkable movement, the glory of its own masterpiece in motion...

There is an altogether different kind of  intelligence moving within the musical presence of Being: A freedom that is not something the mind itself  can truly capture, nor fully enter.  It is the domain of creative impulse which arises from within a moment and which is untethered from identification, need, desired outcome, or plan. 
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In my lifework with individuals, following my own radical breakthrough recounted in my first book: Remembering Who You Really Are, I have noted that this doorway into our own unique masterwork of life (or music in the making) most often first appears as restlessness, loss, grief, self doubt - fear.  

Oddly, the portal to our innate creative freedom of being and life legacy seems to arrive through a series of passageways offered over and over throughout the ongoing, often uncomfortable times of bewilderment: A failure that dismantles an old certainty. A piece of music that catches somewhere in the body and opens a new resonance of heart. An image, a memory, a question that will not leave us alone... until we lead the old self into the art of opening to a new more integrated and ready self.
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I have come to hold life disturbances in high regard.
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Again and again, they have led me and those I have worked with toward the territory I now call SoulArts—the charged and wonderfully unruly places where wound and gift, science and symbol, intelligence and imagination, spirit and matter begin speaking to one another.


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Much of what you will find on this site grew from following those conversations throughout my life. This website holds a body of my lifework: Books, social-commentary installation works, inner leanings and life stories put to poetry and song -- each and all here as a portal into the heart's own memory and language before the mind made its reduced stories of explanation.  

Raw, real, unscripted is the doorway here.
 
My hope in sharing is to offer something that  unsettles an old certainty; that helps a forgotten (or newly ready) part of you to stir and inquire; that a question you have been living without fully realizing it suddenly discovers a resonantlanguage.; that you recognize an ineffable intelligence within yourself -- one  that has been waiting beneath the more familiar story of who you are.

​Looking back now, my life and work has never been about the form it takes. It has been about how it can might awaken and heighten a soulful encounter.  Music and song carry that possibility with rare and powerful depth, and have always moved through my lifework.

The worlds gathered here within LEGACY: The Art Within A Life are the best way I can find, at this age and stage in life, to offer a place for meeting the deeper layers of your essential self—and the unique pathways through which your own masterpiece in the making may yet ask to be shared.
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​Beneath all the forms in this large website of my earlier consciousness books and spiritual self-awareness writings, poems, artworks, and newest songs, resides the same invitation:
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to become more open and available to what is only  just now at the horizon of your  life ...and not yet come into its unique form.
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           The unknown is not the interruption.
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           It is the medium.
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Welcome to these reflections on: "The One Essential Journey"
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— Ronda