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Antonia Layzell's avatar

Dear Maija. The profundity of your known unknown. What a fantastic share.

It is so big, your capacity.

Every project you do is so deep, so powerful, so shockingly synchronised My commitment now is to show up better. How wonderful your stairs are and your Vulnerability.

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Maija Liepins's avatar

Thank you so much for your words Antonia, they are warmly received! I feel encouraged and seen.

How will you know when you are "showing up better"? I wonder what that will provide for you and what it will feel like?

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Antonia Layzell's avatar

My intention was that it would look like me both viewing and responding to your shares here with more regularity and generally keeping in contact better Your work is a valuable asset to me and other and I want to be up to date and able to share it with others better, to be able to talk to myself, you and others about it because I feel what you are doing is important and aligned with my heart.

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Maija Liepins's avatar

Oooh you meant with meeee! How exciting. I read it as generally speaking

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Thankyou for your support and encouragement

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Kasia's avatar

Dear Maija. Thank you for sharing so beautiful thoughts. I find myself between them. I feel being in between, sometimes I feel this ''between'' is multiplied like in matryoshka, and I do not know. Your touching story about howling moved me deeply. Don't we all have that howl inside us? Final belief that we truly are, and yet it is not enough to howl on your own. To fully feel that you are, you need other voices, then you are seen, then you are heard. Your words caught me in between too. I read them in the deep night, I am thinking about them in early morning... Thank you again for them.

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Maija Liepins's avatar

Perhaps the not knowing experience is a clue that one is at the beginning of something, in between one thing and another. A time of transition.

There are so many micro and macro transitions in life that can be eased and supported with a little conscious tending. As with the howl, it helps if we can find ways to stay connected to ourselves and others in the process! Part of my process has just been recognising and accepting where I am.

You may enjoy my video post from 30 Sept which contains the reader "Do I catch you now, between things?"

https://dreamtender.substack.com/p/experimental-filmmaking-with-in-between

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P.S. Audio voice-over has now been added to this post.

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