It all begins with an idea.
What started as an offering of love and a way to break up the monotony of the onset of the Covid-19 Pandemic, quickly morphed into an act of love and a way to highlight the human experience during a pandemic.
The need to create is something I have always embraced. At times, it has been a form of quiet meditation and other times is has been an outward expression of wild energy. I love to create, I must! It makes me a better person and as a result I can be better for my fellow human.
Taking on the Porch Story Project is a little different than my usual pursuits. It began with an idea I wasn’t sure I would be able to take on, meaning I didn’t know if I could give it the proper care and attention it needed in order to get it out in the world. I quickly discovered it wasn’t all up to me. It has taken the involvement of a community to give it life. The seed was planted and now it’s growing. I often refer to a concept Elizabeth Gilbert explores in her book, Big Magic.
“I believe that our planet is inhabited not only by animals and plants and bacteria and viruses, but also by ideas. Ideas are a disembodied, energetic life-form. They are completely separate from us, but capable of interacting with us – albeit strangely. Ideas have no material body, but they do have consciousness, and they most certainly have will. Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. And the only way an idea can be made manifest in our world is through collaboration with a human partner. It is only through a human’s efforts that an idea can be escorted out of the ether and into the realm of the actual.”
Like Elizabeth, I too believe an idea needs a human partner, it needs a host, someone that can carry it out into the world. It needs a partner in action.
I am honored and humbled the Porch Story Project chose me and that I listened.
~ Michelle L Bliss