Join me in this space of becoming
What is there even to say? I am just me and who I will be, grown from the space of who I was.
I could talk about my job that maybe isn’t a dream career, but gives me the space and income to explore what it means to be human and alive … and employed. I could talk about my triggers and responses, about my boredom and restlessness. I could talk about my hobbies that result when I’m tired of watching others’ lives play out on screen, but really who I am is all of it and yet, none of it.
I am creating and figuring out who I am day by day. Project by project. Interest by explored interest. I’m reclaiming my life from the framework I was given, finding some jewels there, and leaving the rest on my quest to consciously create my own life.
I grew up safe, but also found myself confused, stuck and a little scarred - as happens in most childhoods. In my late 20s I began unraveling what all of that entailed and how it affected me, and deciphering if that’s the lens I want to move forward with. Now in my mid-30s I’ve found myself keeping and building upon some parts, composting others and nurturing new parts. I find myself so much more free now that I’ve stopped letting fear hold me back (quite so much).
This creative journey explores what all of that means in real time. Though my creative pursuits, I’m exploring who I am and my relationship with who I was and who I want to be, my relationship with the world around me and how that co-creation changes me, and my relationship with spirit and the divine and how my beliefs are changing as a result of that deepening.
Little by little I’m becoming something new and delicious by alchemizing all that came before with all that I am now and all that I want to cultivate and nurture in this garden of my life. I am giving myself grace as I bloom and become. I am allowing myself this ever-liminal space to be forever in progress. I’m enjoying the beauty of being in flux.
If you find something of value, something to ponder, something to utilize as you move forward on your own journey, welcome. If not, I “bless and release” you in love.
-Marijke (ma-rye-kuh)
My offerings:
Essays.
I’ve got lots of ideas bouncing around my head just waiting to be pondered and fleshed out. Here is where you’ll find my musings.
Poetry.
Because sometimes prose just isn’t what’s needed to get the point across. Sometimes metaphor comes across best in free verse. Sometimes a rhythm is needed, even if it doesn’t rhyme.
Paint & Pen(cil).
Because color and movement are sometimes more vibrant than the words you would describe them with.
Photography.
Then again, sometimes a picture says more than words could hope to convey. Sometimes the beauty of an image moves you more because it hits your soul
Crafts.
There is nothing quite like creating with your very hands, crafting something new where once there was once and an unmolded state.
Vibes & Voices.
This is still in progress, but eventually my goal here is to voice those things that reach the soul through soundwaves. I’ve been speaking and singing most of my life and yet still quite a novice here.
Shop.
If something calls to you and you’d like to support my journey, I will be opening up prints and possibly crafts for sale at some point in the future. If there’s something you’d like a print of, feel free to email.
Collaboration.
If you’ve got a project Idea and would love to work together, please feel free to contact me.
