". . . I would suggest you begin right now with anything on this list. For those who are struggling, it may help greatly to begin with number ten.
General Wolf Rules for Life:
1. Eat 2. Rest 3. Rove in between 4. Render loyalty 5. Love the children 6. Cavil in the moonlight 7. Tune your ears 8. Attend to the bones 9. Make love 10. Howl often"
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. from "Women Who Run With the Wolves"
Questions are coming up for me. True questions. Questions with real answers-heart based answers. Questions about unlimited living...
Right questions like, "What is my wildest dream, my greatest adventure?", "What would I do if life was without any limitation?", "What then?", "What if I didn't worry about how, or if I was credentialed or experienced enough?" "What would I do then?"
An answer came. Clear as day. Simple.
I'd pack up my husband and dog and pile the three of us in an amazing road trip vehicle (like an AirStream trailer) and off we'd go. Our route would begin on the west coast and end one year later on the east coast. We'd visit artist meccas like Santa Barbara, Napa Valley, Sedona, Santa Fe, Austin and Savannah. In each of those places, I'd meet with famous artists and interview them about their creative process. All of the content would end up in a blog or a book or a DVD series - that I'm not sure of yet. But it would.
Then came the wrong questions. "How could you possibly do that?", "How would you support yourself?", "What makes you think fabulous artists would talk to you, an amateur?", "What would the family or the friends think?", blah blah blah.
Stifling and paralyzing answers came to those questions, I can tell you. But, like Scarlett O'Hara, "Fiddle dee dee, I'll think about that another day." For now, I'll stick with the right questions and the right answers. A girl can dream.....and one day, just maybe one day, the "how" will come.
(Pause my playlist, down the page and on the right, to best enjoy the video below.)
I have painted many a journal page in the past couple of years. I've painted dozens of walls in various homes throughout my life time. I even drew and painted a small mermaid on wood at Suzi Blu's "Mermaids by the Sea" workshop last month.....
But I have NEVER painted a canvas. Not one. AND I'll soon be a student of Shiloh Sophia McCloud. I will apparently be guided to paint a 3'X4' painting of my "legendary self"! I really should figure out how this painting thing works.
I frantically dug through my art supplies. Out came a humungous roll of my kid's craft paper, every acrylic paint I own and some never used oil pastels. I'll just teach myself how to work on a larger surface. Well....I'll just "play around" on this big sheet of paper.
15 or 20 feet later and I'm hooked!
I don't care if it ever "turns into something" (like art)....I'm having a blast and that's what it's all about!
Who knew that I liked geometric shapes so much.....I sure didn't! Uh oh. Can I actually paint my "legendary self" using geometric shapes?? Oh I have so much to learn.....
I read somewhere that getting sick is God's way of slowing you down to the speed of life. Only then will you stop doing the 101 things on your "to do" list.
