mark h. magill
-- contributing writer, conscious processionist --

One of the things that I have noticed about my life is that I (like you/like all of us) possess the power to become whatever I want to be. I started out in this life as a "self-conscious" kid without a conscious sense of myself. Then there came a time when I decided that I wanted a sense of myself, and so, I went out in search of a mirror so I could get a sense of myself through a reflection. I looked high and low for the mirror, but when I looked high, the mirror was too low. When I looked low, the mirror was too high. I thought to myself, "Where can I go to get a real sense of myself?" I knew that if I could get a sense of myself, I would know what I was capable of and what I could become. I finally found the mirror that I was looking for. Finding the right mirror meant a lot of false starts looking in a lot of wrong places: in the faces of my family, in the faces of my college professors, in the Help Wanted column and in the darkness from the stage of an acting career. I guess I didn't really find my mirror until I looked in a place that was the last resort, in the last place that it could possibly be: inside of me. I looked in myself and there it was, the reflection that I yearned for all these years. I was beginning to get a sense of myself! I saw myself in a new light, in my own light, and found that I had the power to become whatever I wanted to be. So I became an artist. So I became a writer. So I became a person who is less "self-conscious" and more conscious of myself! I continue to grow as my process progresses. I keep my eye on my own reflection. I paint. I write. I stay conscious.

 

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