New this Issue:

When Joan is in the process of bringing an issue of the journal into form one of the first pieces she begins to focus on is cover art. This process has a few stages; finding the artwork, correspondence with the artist, receiving approval to publish and obtaining the artwork and information about the artist and their work. At any point along the way, there are gaps in time and sometimes quite a bit of last minute back and forth correspondence and other refinements necessary to bring Inner Tapestry's cover to form. With this issue it was a little different.

While Joan was putting things into motion for this issue there seemed to be a haziness, not a great deal of focus, clarity or emphasis on finding IT's cover art—unusual, but happening. The full schedule that we keep, our looking for a new place to live and hosting of upcoming events certainly had her attention elsewhere. This has been somewhat stressful in the past, but this time there was minimal to no worry on her part that the cover would be as always, as it should. And as usual, no worry from me.

The enjoyable part about this for me is, for the first time Joan was not getting worried. At certain points the shadow of worry did surface, “We do not have anything for the cover. What am I going to do? I haven’t even begun to look for cover art. What am I doing?”

As we talked about it and the print submission deadline was approaching, Joan found an artist's work who she and I appreciated with neither of us experiencing the feeling that “this is it!” For me I thought it was wonderful art and the artist's ability to express in their chosen medium is beautiful, but I was not feeling moved to “YES!”

After Joan had connected with the artist and he agreed to offer his art for the cover the correspondence just stopped. I would like to make something clear, this is taking place just days before the journal is to be submitted for printing. At this point, the placement of the artwork would have been set and the information about the artist in the final stage of refinement.

Joan was remarkably calm and ok with it all. She expressed that it was going to work out but didn't have a clue as to how. We were traveling back from a trip to Connecticut and she allowed herself to be with the feelings of a blank cover.

As she began setting up the cover upon our arrival home, the actual day we were submitting for print, she put a frame on the cover where the artwork would be. As she sat with it she realized “this is it... a blank canvas!"

What a better expression of Life without Definition could there be? After all, is that not the ultimate expression of living without our definitions? Each moment of life is truly an opportunity to create yourself and life new for the first time. If you choose to fully honor each moment, embrace “all that is” without question, hesitation and doubt, you are creating life for the first time. No references, just choosing how to bring yourself into that moment from the core of your essential–self. Without the limitations of an unresolved past or worry for the future. Just expressing as your love guides you to be. This is life without definition. This is love expressed as life as every moment.

Living without definition may be asking more of people than is realized. This is not an intellectual process of understanding something, it is not something one learns. This is a process of forgetting all that you know and understand about life. With the known process of life forgotten, we begin living life without any defined  purpose. What I am sharing, I feel, is living in what has been called “The Now.” Living in the now is an expression of living without definition. To experience this, one must choose to be at peace with the life that has been lived and to have the faith to live—the unknown.

To live in this Way, one must embrace a life that can only be experienced, not referenced. To live as an expression of Divine Truth in the moment without fail. Our language is much too limited at this point to explain and fully express in words this Way of being.

The only way one will be able to grasp, at any level, what I am sharing would be to observe and be present in each moment through the “eyes of the soul,” through the truest essence of the Divine-Self.

This requires the relinquishment of all forms of definition, to identify the Self and begin to utilize definition as a tool to share and express how one sees and feels about life rather than to use definition to confine, restrict and limit an experience.

Please take some time to ponder what this has to offer. If one chooses to sincerely explore and experience this Way, I believe, you will be in awe of this wonderful journey of how love is expressed as life. With this choosing, one will have the opportunity experience life as so many have been longing and searching for.