As Del Marie becomes a reality, it does not always do what I think it should or would, how and when I think it could. In such moments, these words give me peace and anticipation for good, creative things to come.

First, from Rainer Maria Rilke:

You must give birth to your images.
They are the future waiting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness you feel.
The future must enter you
long before it happens.
Just wait for the birth,
for the hour of new clarity.

And then, from Trust the Process by Shaun McNiff:

The creative spirit has a strong feminine aspect, a birthing quality. Things made without this gestation and cooking don’t carry the spirits of wondrous individuation and surprise. They look like ready-mades as contrasted to expressions that go full-term through a person’s psychic apparatus. As with birthing, the practice of creation requires a continuous respect for that which takes place autonomously and in its own time. The creator is a necessary participant, but like childbirth the process is not controlled by the person who serves as the agent of delivery.

… the results of artistic expression may bring relief, joy, and harmony, but the process thrives on tension. Conflict and uncertainty are the forces that carry the artist to new and unfamiliar places (pp. 34-35).

- daphne