My name is Emma McCreary. I grew up in Myrtle Creek, Oregon and I now live in Portland. I am self-employed as a web designer as well as running a web hosting business. I also run a site about beading and have a second blog related to business, spirituality, and play consciousness at Tao of Prosperity.
I am a happiness advocate. I think we can all live joyful, healthy lives and nobody has to lose. I think healing can be the work and challenge of a lifetime–but it’s worth it. I think our culture and social institutions train us to be passive and unhappy, but that we can empower and heal ourselves and create our own world, the one we want to live in. I believe we can reclaim life itself, and choose our own destiny. I believe this power is in every one of us, if we choose to own it and explore it.
I believe that all interfaces to Spirit are valid, being creative and useful to the imaginer. The mind, being dualistic and limited, will never fully comprehend the Beloved Divine, and the use of symbol and metaphor gets us closer than thinking does. Ultimately God is experience, God is felt, God is a whisper inside our hearts. To feel the inherent connectedness of everything to everything else is to know God–and however you get there is up to you. Creative myth-making is part of how we express the Spirit that moves through us. I seek to be flexible and let it flow and morph and change like life does. All traditions and dogmas were once new, raw, radical, creative, invented. Meanings are all contingent and ever-changing, and as we embrace that and engage in creating our own meanings we get closer to our own divinity–our own ability to imagine new worlds and manifest them.
My personal journey has been defined by questions like “What is going on here anyway?” and “How can be 100% happy 100% of the time?” I aim to experience as much love, beauty, passion, transcendence, and pure aliveness as possible.
I am a student of non-violence. I believe we are fed when we contribute to life in ourselves and in others. I trust my desires to lead me to my happiness. I endeavor to tell as much truth as is available to me and trust that the rest will be revealed.
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7 comments
April 21, 2006 at 2:58 pm
sheena
hey there, i just started reading your stuff in here, and i’m hooked…keep it up! Live, Love and Learn everyday and please do continue to share!
July 20, 2006 at 6:19 am
famousde
Hi,
May we be friends?
I wrote you once before because I really liked a poem you wrote. I just read a few more of you thoughts and I like them. Deep but not irrational. Also, I believe that we think a lot alike.
what do you think? Friends?
De
July 20, 2006 at 11:25 pm
cheekyboots
Hi De,
Um – huh. I haven’t been explicity asked to be someone’s friend before. My instinct is to say yes, but I wonder what it entails? It seems suddenly like a nebulous agreement, full of shadowy expectations.
BUT, I am feeling adventurous today, so throwing away caution like a dirty dishrag, with reckless abandon, I say yes. I will be your friend.
September 6, 2006 at 5:05 pm
de
Great.
New friend,
Cheeky, straight truth looking
Hesitant, yet to my fortune
Adventurous enough being
Caution may be a dirty rag
Against a sea
Of new reflection
Seeing this offer accepted
Makes me happy
Friendship is as nebulous,
As shadowy,
Empty, vast-dark,
As we take it,
With abandon.
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aside from that,
they’ll be a brief, public
consummation of the friendship
symbolized by intercourse
in front of our neighbors
at a convenient town square
or public facility;
and, believe it or not,
that’s about it. So,
likely, no major need for that
reckless abandon or
anything.
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hugs
in
September 8, 2006 at 9:11 am
eugenia999
Dear Cheeky Boots,
Just reflecting on your posting about art-belonging-legitimacy. This struck a cord with me. I am currently recovering from a cross country move and a year of alot of work (of which I agree with your definition however, this ‘creative’ work is what makes me some money). Is there something about seeking legitimacy that is born out of wanting to be accountable to your art? My whole life the artists I know have always talked about themselves and their work. I see myself going down that slippery slope. It is all a load of old bullocks though!
In the end putting one’s artistry on the line in whatever guise or venue for an artist is for some kind of response (and if artists admit or not they prefer a positive one). Wanting one’s creation to praised and not criticised is universal.
The problem is that the creation comes from the person and the person finds it hard not to take it personally. It is difficult to find a balance.
eugenia999
September 8, 2006 at 12:15 pm
cheekyboots
I think it’s a matter of people using their art as a strategy to meet their needs for acceptance, understanding, and belonging. There’s nothing wrong with that–unless the strategy interferes with other needs, like the need for creativity and flow and authenticity, and then people might want to rethink their relationship with their art and how they could get those needs met in other ways.
December 2, 2006 at 1:39 pm
thecottager
Re: lazy is the new work: In his excellent book, “You Can Be Happy No Matter What”, Richard Carlson writes: “Stress is so popular that other people are offended if we don’t appear to be under stress ourselves.” I understand; I used to labor under the misconception that the busier I was, the more valuable I was.