Life in Full Colour — Cry, Heart, But Never Break

I believe the future of leadership is #OpenLeadership and self-knowledge is a key part of the foundation to this, so sometimes I step into choosing to share where I am on life’s journey and what I am musing on.

Specifically, I am musing yesterday and today on the power of romance, idealism and romanticism. We can all be inspired in many ways in our life and work, and at the moment, this is a theme I am drawn to write about.

Yesterday I wrote: “Leadership: Romance, Life in Full Colour and Magical Reality”, and around one of those three themes, “Life in Full Colour”, I mused on Frida Kahlo and how her life oscillated between the vibrantly colourful and the darkest of darks.

I adore Kahlo, and I also adore the amazing curation of art (in many forms of Maria Popova of Brainpickings.org). Her work is wonderful and, like her friend, Amanda Palmer (see more on Amanda from me here, I’ve written about her several times), she is funded by her tribe, through contributions to her website. If you love her work as I do, please do contribute.

Maria has posted about Kahlo numerous times, and in: “Frida Kahlo’s Passionate Hand-Written Love Letters to Diego Rivera” we truly can sense, as Maria puts it: