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Articles from February 2017

Published February 23, 2017

believing

I love you — all of you! You are energy and potential and beauty. I invite you to breathe with me, sing with me, dance with me, cry, laugh, splash in puddles, build big fires and watch the sparks fly, read with me, cook with me, take care of bleeding hearts with me, awaken sleeping souls, ignite forgotten dreams, celebrate everyday miracles. I invite you to believe in yourselves, to believe in each other, and to love, love, love.

— heidi kalyani, 2017 
from the *nothing is black and white* project: illustration created out of meditation with a single unbroken line

Published February 17, 2017

labels not required

I’m not an illustrator, a graphic designer, or a dancer. I’m not an planner, a writer, or a hiker. I’m not a seeker, a yogi, or a lover. Yes, I like to draw, design and dance. I like to think, write and walk. I like going beyond the edges of my known experience, exploring my mind-body-soul, sharing intimacy with people. I am me. Fully, completely, unabashedly. And when I meet you, I’m not seeing your occupation, your religion, your ethnicity, your gender. I’m seeing your eyes and the way they burn like lanterns on a moonless night. I’m hearing your voice and how it fills the tiny room we’re standing in, or floats up to the tops of the trees and becomes the wind. I’m feeling your energy and noticing how this connection both excites and calms every cell in my body. I’m witnessing your presence, your compassion, your tenderness. I’m aware of your breath, your heartbeat, your electromagnetic field — your aliveness. And I’m delighted by the miracle that is you, no matter what your past or future story is, no matter what you call yourself or what others call you, no matter what fascinates and obsesses you, what repels or engages you. And I hope that, in the same way, you are delighted by the miracle that is me, without naming it or labelling it or squaring it off to make me fit better into the little tick boxes our culture is so fond of.

— heidi kalyani, 2017 
from the *nothing is black and white* project: illustration created out of meditation with a single unbroken line

Published February 6, 2017

learning to swim


My heart is so wide open right now, it hurts. But it’s a good hurt… a beautiful breaking open… an expansion of muscles that have been tight for too long… a release… a flood. Only this time, I’m not drowning (like last time, and the time before) because you, all of you, are helping me keep my head above water, helping me relax into the unknowing, and helping me, finally, learn how to swim…

— heidi kalyani, 2017 
from the *nothing is black and white* project: illustration created out of meditation with a single unbroken line

Published February 1, 2017

for my friends

I want to tell you that your love makes my world spin in an elliptical orbit, stretching my perspective with each go around — that possibility is a stronger word when we’re together, that self-doubt shrinks into bed with a runny nose and a bad cough, that your tenderness and care are helping to reawaken a version of me that I had thought was forever buried under stubborn layers of conditioning and other people’s ideas of “being good”. I want to hold you close and thank you for seeing me and hearing me and believing in me, for handing me the chisel I’m using to loosen the protective paint I’d covered myself in when I was too broken and exhausted to fully be me anymore. In your presence, I am reminded of how much I used to shine, and how, despite the dark outer layers that have dulled the past few years, I’m beginning to shine again!

— heidi kalyani, 2017 
from the *nothing is black and white* project: illustration created out of meditation with a single unbroken line

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