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<\/p>\nThat is, if you listen.<\/p>\n
At nineteen years old, my girlfriend was cheating on me.<\/p>\n
I chose not to believe the signs, but in my gut, things just didn’t add up.<\/p>\n
I was working in glass at the time, and ran across a photo of an aboriginal petroglyph.<\/p>\n
This drawing from thousands of years ago captured me – compelled me into dialog.<\/p>\n
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There it laid for several weeks.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the lies twisted their knot inside.<\/p>\n
One day it was too just much – working all day in the studio with thoughts racing around my head, I finally admitted to myself that I was being betrayed – there was no other possibility. I remember standing there taking it in – just enough to believe it, not enough to really feel it – but no longer ignoring my heart.<\/p>\n
At that moment, I heard three sharp “pings” – (if you work glass you know this unique sound of glass snapping), looking over at that glass with the aboriginal drawings etched into it’s surface, I saw it fall into pieces.<\/p>\n
I know now those figures were my inner \u00a0fears, wanting attention – asking to be heard.<\/p>\n
The moment I listened to their awful news, the tension in the glass was released – and their job was done.<\/p>\n
Quite amazing.<\/p>\n
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