🌊 Water No Get Enemy
- Mari Pardun
- Mar 15
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 17
Sometimes life feels like a current I can’t quite swim against. All the world's "problems" ask to be fixed and I just don’t have the strength or experience to fix it. Lately…I’ve been relearning what rhythm means. Not in the “get everything done” kind of way, but the softer kind...
The kind that moves at the pace my body, mind and spirit can actually handle. I’m learning that balance isn’t stillness…it’s motion. It is letting myself flow without judgment.
There’s been so much to unlearn...the control, the urgency, the belief that ease means weakness. And when I slow down long enough…questions:
🪷 What if I am meant to pause instead of push?
🪷 What if I do my very best and it still doesn’t work out?
🪷 What if the lesson isn’t in the fight
but in the flow?
Water doesn’t fight.
It moves. It adapts. It finds a way.
It can crash, it can calm
but it always returns to itself.
That’s how I want to live.
Not forcing every answer.
Not hardening every time I am hurt.
Just letting what’s true find its way back.
So for now, I put on some music. The kind that finds me before I even know I need it. For today, it was Fela Kuti’s Water No Get Enemy.
Now comes co-creation…
No plan, no sketch
Only sound and color and feeling
I let rhythm guide colors across the page
exhaling all that I didn’t realize
I’d been holding
That’s the thing about intuitive art...
it’s not about creating a masterpiece,
it’s about making room…
Room to listen.
Room to feel.
Room to move with whatever shows up.
By the time the last note fades,
the piece is done.
And somehow,
it feels like the
freedom I've been craving
Maybe we are not off course when things fall apart. Perhaps we just need to learn how to flow.
Intuitive Art Prompt for today:
Make something that moves like you do
a few brushstrokes,
a single line,
a ripple on paper.
It doesn’t have to be perfect.
Be like water.
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