Recounting this story to my great friend and sage to the world, Hippie Lou, I realized I had truly lost something that day, the ability to express my authentic truth as she desires to express herself through the flow of the goddess. I discovered that I no longer need to search outside of myself for the answers to great and transcendent art-making, but trust my own inner artistic integrity and know that whatever inside of mine desiring to be shared with the world is beautiful and worthy.