The project has been beautifully launched! This is a photo of the blessings on the wall with the 20 red roses on the mantelpiece.
This is the blessing I received from Stasa Dailianis:
Beautiful, strong Lulu.....
On your 30th birthday, as doors swing quietly shut behind you and new corridors stretch ahead of you, I send you these blessings from afar.
May the house of your life be decorated with many and various colours
may you find surprises in the cupboards, boxes containing treasures on the tops of wardrobes
joys and delights never even hoped for
waiting under pillows, revealing themselves as you turn in your sleep.
May you understand that like a dream this house is infact not as solid as it seems;
may you paint the walls and then laugh at the colour,
rip up the carpet and fill a room with sand (lie down in your bikini and draw pictures of islands and castles)
run through the rooms and corridors shouting at the top of your lungs (I can see the holes in the floorboards!)
the wooden planks under your feet slipping softly off the edge of the porch
the walls falling away as you run, trembling, dissolving...
the sink falling past and dissapearing
the wallpaper peeling and spirling down
as you float out into the garden, full of light, not stained by any darkness
(perhaps
now
sensed
lurking in one or two shoe boxes under the bed?)
May you gently open the windows of your heart to all those who pass by;
your lover,
sister,
friends,
teachers,
bus drivers,
strangers who walk past on their way to the fish and chip shop,
birds who nest in your rafters
mice who nibble your flour bags in the kitchen cupboards when you are sleeping and dreaming
dream darling lucette, for you are truely blessed
all my love
stas
