Nothing stops her...
"Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasures." RilkeToday is Katharine Lillie Dearing's 27th birthday. My daughter's courage amazes me. How many things she has done for the sake of her career in acting. She continually has faced down each of her fears for the sake of this career. Fears like, rejection and whether or not she could make a living in a big city AND still create time and space to fill her life with things and people that bring her wonder and joy. And as we speak she is now challenging some of her deepest fears. So, I write this to remind her that her deepest treasure is barely a breath away. AND to remind us all that it is worth the grand quest. It is worth taking on that which we are most frightened by because (as is true in the realm of myth and magic) it is in those moments the great transformation occurs. The frog becomes a prince. In Phantom of the Opera, she kisses his ugly face and he frees her. We must prove ourselves worthy or our deepest treasures, before they will reveal themselves to us and drop their costume of our deepest fears. We must prove to our sweet souls that we won't let their deepest treasure be co-opted by the strategic mind, the ego.Yes, it is true, that which you resist most or fear most, you will one day discover this to be the source of the greatest healing and comfort. You will say things like: "O, if only I had known, that what I most wanted and longed for all my life, was actually in the thing I most despised." Let's say your greatest fear is being unaccessible, not there for others, unavailable and/or self-consumed. Yet one day for strange reasons you risk being that one who is unaccessible and unavailable to others and find the greatest peace you have ever known, the peace that surpasses understanding.So, Kate as I sit on the sidelines of your life watching you take on, challenge after challenge, always rising to the occasion, and always overcoming your fears...I realize that you are my teacher. Your dream is much harder to be faithful to, than many others. The path less clear and so many examples of those who tried and failed. Yet, nothing stops you, angel girl. Who would have guessed that angelic little easy going, baby girl who entered the world 27 years ago would turn out to be an amazon warrior for her right to have a life that takes her breath away. It will be so angel. It will be so.