Dear Creative Friend,

You have something within you.

Something that needs to be said.

Is it a lyric?

A painting?

An essay on love?

A melody that wants to be shaped?

Is it just something as simple as sharing a truth for the first time?

It is waiting for you to release it from inside you.

It is the first pebble in what I imagine is a whole lot more pebbles that will eventually form a path.

Nobody is watching, they’re too busy thinking of their own pebble.

Or they’re not awake yet to see that they have that urge as well.

So, either way you’re good to go.

Release the first pebble and then notice what happens in the middle section of your body.

Does it feel expansive?

Open?

Or does it ache with contraction?

If it aches, perhaps you need to take out another pebble and start adding to your path and see what happens.

Can you release one small pebble each day?

Every other day?

What starts as three, five, eight pebbles, will eventually start to grow to twenty five, thirty nine, a hundred and nine, until you have a real honest to goodness path.

And guess what?

A path can then be walked upon.

Now feel the center of your body.

Does it contact or expand?

If you're anything like me, the core of your being that yearns to express itself will start to depend on you releasing that pebble.

But not to worry, because the pebble doesn’t need to be correct.

There is no correct.

As you begin to lay down each pebble, they gradually become integral to the path, and whether right or wrong, they collaborate to uncover the story.

You will begin to feel the ache inside you transform into confidence—a sense of sufficiency.

Confidence that you are standing on a path you created.

And now, you take your first steps.