Extraordinary Transformation

It won't look quite like you thought it would, this journey to meet that which you would like to become.

In the transition from before to after you'll learn things you never thought to ask,

weather storms you were ill prepared for

and break open in spots that will heal to form bends in the path

that once was so straightforward and predetermined.

In becoming extraordinary you will confront and conspire with dark things and light things

both

and learn their beauty is neither for you or against you, that only your perceptions make it personal.

In your path will be things as old as time

like failures

and miracles

and the hours themselves

which will carve a canyon in your impatient heart

making room for everything.

There will be grumpy moments

jubilance and despair

deep loneliness

and ever-increasing accountability

for this short important life

in this flawed and stunning body

.

Make it count.

Beat that heart

like a drum.

Call everything you need to you.

Take chances.

Make friends.

Consume sunsets and homemade pie with passion and wonder.

On an indeterminable day some amount of time from now

You'll see the shift,

you'll have shed your cocoon 

and you'll wait for the parade you expected would appear in this life-movie

but instead it will be a quiet and beautiful.

It will be solely yours, this moment

before you call your mother

or your beloved in to come see

Your wings will unfold wet and fragile

patient as they've become

moved by love and instinct

you will turn the new parts to the sun and rise

to meet what you were made for.

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This copper chrysalis was formed in pitch employing the techniques of chasing and repousse.

The high-relief sculpture (that had once been a sheet of copper!!) was then fired with both opaque and transparent enamels.

The process took a tremendous amount of time and love

and it made me very very happy to see the results.

I knew I had to take my time and make the perfect setting for its

magnificence.

Spring branches of sterling and a helicopter seed

touched with moonstone

form the clasp and canvas upon which the chrysalis

nests.

Lovingly and carefully formed with hammer and hand,

perfectly suited for the monarch-to-be.

In the Metal Shop tonight.

xoxo,

Sunny