DIARY ONE: This One Got Me
(Finding My Old Diaries at Seventy)
This One Got Me
Mixed Media on Canvas
40" x 40"
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This work began when I opened an old box of diaries written between the ages of thirteen and twenty-five.
For decades they remained untouched.
I expected memories.
Instead I encountered a young woman still alive within me.
The pages revealed her hopes, fears, longings, questions, certainties, and confusions. Reading them was less like remembering the past than entering a conversation across time.
The figure standing within the painting occupies a threshold between two lives. The journals themselves appear not as records of what has been, but as living companions carrying forward unfinished questions and forgotten parts of oneself.
This painting marks the beginning of the Diary Series.
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About This Series
The Diary Series emerged from the rediscovery of journals kept from adolescence through young adulthood.
Each painting, song, and reflection grows from a dialogue between the young woman who wrote those pages and the woman reading them decades later.
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Much living experience moves through the body before it becomes thought or knowing — It often comes more accessibly through rhythm, tone, breath, and repetition. Music meets that layer directly. It carries what is understood not only by the mind, but by the nervous system, the cells, and the long memory of being alive.
I have evolved into writing Soul-Essence songs because song allows a person to deeply feel and recognize what cannot be as deeply invoked and experienced in most other ways.
Essence is naturally recognized through experiences of felt resonance—and for this, music with lyric becomes a doorway to deep inner seeing.
I have found, that songs written from within this energetic have the capacity to carry the listener into the inner threshold of essential seeing. This is precisely the space where healing breakthroughs occurred in my decades of work with private clients, and where life reorients itself naturally—not through force, but rather through deeply felt reflection and realization of true self.
These songs are composed where lived experience, soul recognition, and musical motion meet. They are not meant to persuade or perform meaning, but to transmit it — so that something already known can be felt, named, and met as whole.