ENCOURAGING AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION

(c) 2011 Howard McQueen

When we make the investment to be fully in the service of relationship,

 be it friendships/stewardships with fellow humans,

 be it friendships/stewardships with animal companions,

 be it connections/stewardships with nature

And,
 the nature of the relationship is a balance of giving and receiving,

we actualize our capacity for connectedness.

When we honor this connectedness,

 by being transparent and fully present

we further actualize and begin to manifest

a contagious and unifying authenticity.

Staying in our authenticity allows our false pretenses and the biases surrounding our assumptions

to wind down,

and disengage their spell-binding influences.

We realize, in any given moment,

so many possibilities may become manifest.

Each is a signal for us:

 to dance with 

 to sit out the dance

 to pickup an instrument

 to invite some new partner into the dance

 to improvise by painting our feelings on a canvass

 to ... 

There are so many responses our authenticity

will encourage to blossom from the heart

into forms of expression that pluck the heart-strings of others.