This started out as just a "paint over", but I decided to sit with "She's Been Here" for a while and let her talk to me. What an experience! I painted the "self portrait" almost a year ago, to the date--didn't realize that until I sat to write. It was during a very hard personal time for time--a time of disappointment and "death" (death of a family, a dream, an idea). It was good therapy painting it, and today was good therapy letting it go--painting "rich black soil" over the seeds and now waiting for something new to come. I feel clean, freshly scrubbed, and very rich. Something new is coming forth. For all of us involved in the 'before' picture. I feel it. I know it. I can hear Spirit saying, "Behold, I make all things new!"