Guarded (or Not)

If you feel the need to defend your thing, your gift, your craft, it’s on it’s way out.If your impulse is to draw lines, protecting your thing from the world of contamination, it’s approaching the end.If you are compelled to tell others about it, share it, offer it to the world of potential criticism (and praise), it has life left in it.If your impulse is to remove the lines, open it to others, explore it, let it breathe, it will live.To the question, “What’s the state of this or that thing I offer?” the answer is often in how you present it to the world.Guarded and protected.Or open to exploration and examination.This goes for your craft.Your ideas.Your religious faith.