Thursday is a Holiday

The Manifest Way
I Believe in YOU!
A service of Maytorena Ministries since 1997
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If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
Billie Holiday American jazz singer from the 1930s to the 1950s, 1915-1959

Thoughts: Today I am declaring a holiday: A day where I am free from the expectations of others. A day when I am free of the expectations from me. In fact, I have no expectation but that I will have fun and follow my muse.


Commentary: I woke up late this morning. Instead of feeling guilty, I felt good. I felt rested. I didn't even have to slowly create my day as I had already done it in the hours before I awoke. Yesterday’s blues had faded in the dreams that came to me through the filter of the full moon shining through the window. I went to my computer and sat the radio station on Billie Holiday songs.


To me Billie Holiday is the icon of individuality. She was up. She was down. She was superb in her art regardless of where she was. She was her art. And as an artist her life was a work in progress. That is what I am as an artist; I am a work in progress. That is where I am as a person; I am a work in progress. Until I die, I continue to be a work in progress.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519

I have spent my life creating and re-creating me. It seems that I seemed to have been born with a phoenix totem attached permanently to my DNA. I have crashed and burned only to rise up stronger and definitely more interesting. In fact, I think I am addicted to chaos and change. But guess what? As Billie sang it: Ain't nobody’s Business if I Do!


Remember: Each one of us has one prime directive to create who we are now and who we will be in the future. If you don't like the past, than change where you are now! And if you want to stay stuck, hey that is not my problem. It is yours. I love reinventing me. I love taking the materials that have been put together by my life's experiences and combining them in increasingly complex and interesting ways. That is the manifest way. That is the way of the possibility person.







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"The Manifest Way -- I believe in you!" is a weekly essay by Myriam Maytorena to help you keep focused on your positive possibilities in today's world of chaos and confusion. A brief interlude to help maintain hope, faith and belief.