Wise & Ancient Soul 3

In the quiet alley just around the corner from the world’s loud judgments, walked Annie.  Her hair freshly cut in a style no one understood, carrying her beloved violin with its cracked body and missing strings.  She had been told her music was broken, her appearance too bold, her dreams too strange.  Yet something ancient stirred inside her chest, a voice older than stars that whispered, “Bring every imperfect piece of yourself.”

With each step she felt the fragments realign, not into perfection, but into power.  And there, beneath a single shaft of golden light, her wise and ancient soul stepped forward, lifted the broken violin.  It played the most beautiful melody the world had never heard.  Because the soul that dares to arrive exactly as it is always wins.

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Wise & Ancient Collection:  ( 3 of 3 part of a series)

A bold square abstract painting of sweeping geometric arcs, circles, and sacred lines in black, gold, teal, and warm earth tones.  “Wise & Ancient 3” features the handwritten poem: “So I’m taking my new haircut And my broken violin Down around the corner Where a wise and ancient Soul can win.”  With the word “Ancient” floating above this meditative work celebrates the triumphant power of embracing one’s authentic, imperfect self.