Words from the Muse

"You must search for happiness in your life. Don't get discouraged. Look ahead with hope."

Words from Maillol and Mastisse muse and model Dina Vierny, who passed today.
Such a simple string of words- the essential essence of our lives.

So easy to get distracted by our busy-ness, we can easily fall into automaton activity.
Only silence will tell us the truth. Are we happy? Not the giddy kind that is fickle and fleeting, but the contented joy that rides evenly upon any circumstance that comes our way.

Joseph Campbell, one of the never-met mentors who first moved me on the path many years ago and still to this day inspires me with words written on paper from lectures of long ago- Reflections on the Art of Living my bible for today, everyday.


Read the article written for NPR here.


copyright 2009 Alisa Barry