Why Tabula_Rasa? I own Rasa Design Studio. Tabula_Rasa started out as the 'blank slate' of my life after Lucyna. It began with a new beginning that had the potential to lead anywhere. I find myself often in that position... that life could possibly lead anywhere and that every day is a blank canvas upon which we can paint.

Travel: It was my escape from the Valley and how I ended back in the Valley I grew up in. Travel is how I will find what I am looking for, for it is not here. Travel is my lover and my nemisis... it will get me to HER, but it is the challenge to get to HER as well. It stands in my way and leads me to where I have to be.

Touch: It does not have to be physical. It can be the hand on the shoulder, but also the word, the gesture, the act. It is the connection that one person developes toward another. It is the basis for relationship whether that relationship exists face-to-face, or a thousand miles apart. A touch is when a person reaches out to close the distance in whatever way they can.

The Teacher: The person that guides. The person that asks exactly the right question in the right way at the right time and explodes or implodes the world into something new and growing. A teacher is patient and leads by example. A teacher can be a child or an old person and it doesn't even matter how aware they are of their own teacing... but when one finds a teacher, one knows to sit at the feet.

Tie: To fasten, to bind, to restrict? To connect. To be bound by a tie, to be related through a tie, to establish a tie. It is all the same. It is the way we are connected to ourselves and to others who are important to us. In every way that we can feel restricted by having a tie or by being 'tied', there is also the freedom to soar knowing that there is a tie that holds us to the ground. To something. It is the commitment and the obligation.

Thorn: The humor. The evaluation. The joke that slightly stings and is filled with affection. It is the teacher's lesson that stays with one. It is the honest opinion one doesn't want to hear, but needs to anyway. The thorn is the punishment delivered with beauty as in a rose. It is the way to draw the blood without killing. The prick of the skin that lets one know what is valuable and that there is always a cost to beauty and love.

to Tell: to communicate with words. To share the brain and mind with another. To use one channel to connect with. To allow another to share at least the sliver of an experience or a thought even though all of the experience can never bo shared. To reveal. To allow another to know what one knows if it can be communicated in words. To touch, to be a teacher, to tie, to be the thorn, to travel with the mind.

I dare the following people to do this 'flashmob':
Andreala
pixiedash
maria-ego
nino
hmmm... I'll edit to include the rest and also links. ;)

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