Jamie Homeister
Self-employed, intuitive artist focused on creating a
visual connection to the Self through color. The arts
are a gentle pathway inward, and I believe we can use
them as a platform for self-discovery and revelation.
Single best thing about being involved — living or working — in
Southern Indiana:
There are so many beautiful things about Southern Indiana. Still I’d have to
say that I am continually touched and inspired most by the kindness, talent, and
skill of our community. We have constant access to a wonderful collective of
professionals, intellectuals, and creatives that make Southern Indiana a unique
and dynamic place to live.
How has the coronavirus outbreak impacted your life most and
what will you tell future generations about COVID-19 from your
perspective?
“There are significant moments in each person’s life where we’re given an
opportunity to wake up to what’s really happening around us. If the summary
of our life can be drawn in a map, these moments are the pins marking our trail
along the winding and dusty roads of self-discovery. Imagine the pin to act as
a timestamp, a moment of significant epiphany or awakening that furthers our
self-concept. It’s something we can never turn back from, no matter how hard
we try. Though some of these circumstances can create an extremely uncomfort-
able or painful situation, it is also a time of great personal power, for we have
given ourselves permission to come into reality. To really get clear about what
is happening around us now, in the present. And this is where I see us, poised at
the fork in the road.
All across our world, our pins are dropping. If we are quiet, we can hear the
sounds they make through the cacophony of the gasping and purging lungs of our
family and neighbors; from the hospitals
and homes of souls releasing their last
sighs of breath. My experience with the
coronavirus isn’t over yet. None of ours
is. We will all continue to learn from this
for the rest of our lives. Perhaps I will
remind my grandchildren that we are
the spiders of the universe, spinning our
strands of gold from branch to branch,
hand to hand, story to story; weaving
in and out of one another’s lives with
our touch, our sounds, our breath, and
our blood. I will tell them that COVID-
19 was an incredibly powerful teacher.
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