Welcome to Scatter Joy!

Being receptive opens you up to the mysteries in life. It is the times that we are receptive that we are the most creative. I am quite sure noone makes any progress or creates any relationship or brings forth any beauty when they are in a state of closed thought. I open my heart as I open my eyes each day, like them the heart can get weary, or even teary, but it is open nonetheless. If we feel these receptive times and embrace them we benefit in every way. With some openness comes pain, some joy, but ahh.... the openness is all of it and essential and good. I feel blessed with every feeling and friend that comes my way and I will take the receptivity with gratitude and walk where it leads; for it leads to "every little road filled with possibilities."
Receptivity makes miles disappear and puts you in a land of constant sun, lands you on a western island, and makes you feel at home in the English countryside all while sitting with a beautiful child on your lap. Receptivity opens your art to the art of the heart and makes it sing, and dance and thank-you for bringing it to life. Receptivity helps you realize that all of your lovely works have been leading to some cumulative project that there was no way you could fore see, before you meet a person. But you were open, then, and you are open now and there it is one of the raison d'etres of your art.
Part of living to scatter joy for me is knowing that it connects people (with me involved and it connects people without me being involved), in fact people have told me years later that I had something positive to do with this or that and I was not even aware. ( Sometimes the influence I had was even one they initially might have not been open to or resented, and then it turned out they grew from it.) This happens to all of us every moment, every little road, whether we know it or see the effects. I think it is not actually me, I think it is the same thing that art does, I think what people feel when they meet someone who is open or they look at art, is someone else's little road. A road that only they can walk and oh, what a gift it is to look down someone's momentary, little, road. I love when I tell people look at your heart and all the stories and people on it and find what they gave you. Not what they took or broke or spoiled, even if that is what they did. Rewrite what you see on your heart and it will open you up to the next possibility.
This gives us joy and appreciation. This is what art and an open heart does.
I have met so many people recently that scatter joy, whether they realize it or not. I add them to those who I already have on my heart and appreciate their receptivity and kindness.
Live in the light and
Scatter Joy.