Falling Apart and Coming Together
Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) into one of Russia’s most refined and artistic families.
At the outbreak of the October Revolution in 1917, Serebriakova was at her family estate of Neskuchnoye, and suddenly her whole life changed. In 1919 her husband Boris died of typhus contracted in Bolshevik jails. She was left without any income, responsible for her four children and her sick mother. All the reserves of Neskuchnoye had been plundered, so the family suffered from hunger. She had to give up oil painting in favour of the less expensive techniques of charcoal and pencil.
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Sometimes, the hardest pivots are rerouting our greatest destinies. Sometimes, we grow through the most unlikely circumstances. Sometimes when we feel we are falling apart, but we’re really coming into alignment with our internal values. Finally, listening to the deeper, inner wisdom that’s telling you that you are meant to move beyond everything you’ve known into something bigger than you’d ever fully let yourself believe.
~ Bridget Cavanaugh
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You’re energy in a frequency
of vibration and you’ll change
