I just had the profound, inspiring, and humbling opportunity to complete a research paper about the master I admire and explain her path in the terms of Robert Greene’s Keys to Mastery.
Here I sit in flowing tears as I sift carefully through the works of my mentor Maya Angelou, who I’ve just recently given permission to speak to me on a much deeper and intimate level that she had ever done. I had permitted this opportunity to her because I had accepted her invitation by giving her my undivided attention…so the most profound connection has been made and I’m listening to my mentor. She told me something I already thought I knew, that “God loves me.” I thought I knew that, but apparently I haven’t been acting like it with the fear and unfocused energy collaborating to alter my path. There is this thing; this thing I am supposed to be doing and I have a roundabout idea and a very distinct feeling in the pit of my belly swelling up, rising and falling. I’ve been searching for the angle from which I would discover this and here I am. The journey to mastery is the pathway to the discovery of birthing greatness. God loves me despite my irrevocable choices to accept procrastination as an acceptable action of inaction. But I am reenergizing my mind to fit the needs of this journey. I am unleashing the master waiting to move in this world. I suspect there might be some very unexpected things that will occur, but I am open to what awaits me on this journey from apprentice to master. The world of performing arts and of storytelling compels me to dwell deep and expose something incredible. I am working. I am learning. I am being.