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finding my way.

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Author audrey dimolaPosted on January 29, 2018January 30, 2018Categories UpdateTags arts education, astoria, awareness is empathy, fire fire fire, graffiti, inspiration, life, poetry, poetry graffiti, queens, triboro bridge, youthLeave a comment on finding my way.

Into the wild wonderland…

Celebrated as “a wildfire in a world of fluorescent bulbs,” a “poetic force of nature,” and “inspiration incarnate,” Queens, New York City native AUDREY DIMOLA is a poetic alchemist, performer, curator, sacred space-holder, community organizer, and mental health advocate, as well as Director of Public Programs at Long Island City’s Socrates Sculpture Park. // Thanks so much for stopping by! You’ll find all my work on this website, past and present, as well as new blog posts. Poetry, prose, videos, events, photos, articles – it’s all here. // STAY WILD, STAY GRATEFUL!

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Decisions We Make While We Dream (2012)

TRAVERSALS (2014)

WILDLIGHT (2018)

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i wrote this in nov 2015-- the original year that changed my life ;) wow. 4 yrs later, still true.. and even moreso. 🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️

this was my brilliant, deeply generous + incredibly talented sister's birthday gift to me, and i literally burst out crying when i saw it. she took the painstaking time and heart to paint one of my most special guides, the Great Green Lion, where i visualize him-- on top of my beloved triboro bridge. in alchemy, the green lion is the innermost, our internal angel. and seeing it externalized from my mind and heart feels similarly to how i feel right now-- nearing the completion of THE BOOK OF LEGEND, wherein the Great Green Lion, and the other consorts of my adventure, live. 🌿🌿🌿 i wrote this the other night... the world loses something when we are lost to ourselves. when we are afraid of what rises in us-- instead of called to explore it. our knowledge, our expression, our Legend-- dies with us, stays silent with us-- unless we vow to give our Life to living it, sharing it, proclaiming it, ACCEPTING it. as i am in the final editing stages of #THEBOOKOFLEGEND i know that my friend devra's tragic death spurred me to this moment. i was infinitely inspired by the force of her constant creation. 🌅 i knew that i had chosen to STAY over the near-constant callings to end my own life. i knew that i could not die without these stories being told. i beg you, ask you-- the same question. what could you not bear to die without releasing? give your life to the truth of that, and it will Lead you. Every Single Place you need to go. 🔺🔥🔺 #stay #manifestdestiny #mentalhealthmatters #recontextualize #liveyourtruth #liveyourlegend #herosjourney 🌿 #triborobridge 🌉

last night sharing my story at @collective.bae's incredible*** MOONLIT event + meeting such wildly inspiring, beautiful, open souls 💎🌕💎 awaiting my first ever passport + my first ever trip out of the country ❤️🇮🇹❤️ staying in tonight to continue near-final editing of #THEBOOKOFLEGEND for its publication 9.5.19 ⚔️🕊️🌿 reflecting on the necessity of journey of story of personal truth of connection of daring of self-care 🙏🙏🙏 of dreams that seem so impossible until you make them REAL 🔥🔥🔥 #liveyourlegend #pursuitoftruth #southernoracle #selfworth #manifestdestiny #gnosis #33

since 2016 i end up in this same space at this same time, stand in front of this bathroom mirror and take this foto in my mind.. but now i actually took it. Here I Am-- 33 years old, arts professional, soon to be 4x self-published author.. a lot more tattoos and a lot more legend. wouldn't trade this journey for anything and everything it took to get me Here. #yourockgal #liveyourlegend #iseeYou

WOW i am so thrilled + honored to connect with a true alchemical sister @dreeemy 💗🌈 + for her trust in my LEGEND to facilitate for @collective.bae at their next MOONLIT gathering at @ambrosia_elixirs THIS THURSDAY 😍😍 MORE INFO + TIX 🌕 moonlit.splashthat.com 🌕 this is a big step for me in bringing my heartwork + life's work into new arenas + i can't wait to see what we manifest in this context 🌟🌟🌟 #liveyourlegend #womxnmade

at the very end of a literal 4 day celebration i was just so lucky and feeling so grateful to be HOME 💛💛💛 thanks to everyone who went so out of their way to make my 33rd special 😍🥰🙏🎉💋💋💋

🔥 thirty three 🔥 you will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. and in the place of all this you will write the word courage. by beginning the journey with that word and continuing with faith in god, you will arrive wherever you need to arrive. --coelho.

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i live for moments like this. inside the dream #thebookoflegend

'god gave you the grace to purge this place and peace all around may be your fortune oh oh children of the land love is still the answer, take my hand the vision fades, a voice i hear listen to the madman!' -- brian may, the prophets song this is my last day as thirty two. the past two and now three days of my birthday weekend have seen underlying or full-blown panic, rage, anxiety, fear, sorrow. interspersed with laughter, singing, fireworks, drumming, humbling love. constant movement that i am overwhelmed by. i have been trying to curate my life like an event-- the one thing i know i'm good at, WORK-- and it hasn't been working. i am sitting here listening to my favorite band QUEEN with my 🍒💣 bike beside me, otherwise alone. i am perplexed by my journey, the stark highs and lows, the legend. this power i have been given, this voice. in such a short time, i have done so much. enough to make me feel i was almost justified in making a premature exit. but i feel through the agony of these growing pains-- there is more for me to discover. understanding the fire, using the power i was born with. cultivating more peace. making time and space for more intimate connection. this life of mine is so fucking blessed but so fucking difficult. i am grateful for it-- rage, joy, desire, and all.

if anyone could find the way out, child it's you

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