BIG Hurdles

Because we are alive.

Because this world is complicated.

Because we are not perfect in our approach or response.

We can face BIG hurdles in our lives.

When that hurdle takes you away from your life.

When it makes you suffer isolation, pain and maybe even death.

How do you find the strength to face it and not fear it?

How do you embrace the lesson it may teach you and not become someone else ?

The hurdle can be health.

The hurdle can be loss of someone that we love beyond understanding.

The hurdle might be removing ourselves from a situation that is toxic.

A marriage.

A relationship.

A friendship.

Or a profession or job that is just not our life.

Facing it and doing it with grace,

strength

and the resolve that we can survive it

and stay whole.

NOT EASY.

But that is how life is.

As an artist, NOTHING is more important than feeding that inner muse.

The MUSE inside of me is my voice.

My work.

My life.

When that MUSE is stifled or saddened by the choices that I have made.

It tells me by not allowing me to paint.

I will stare at the canvas and reach into my soul.

It will be empty and restless.

I will find ten things to do BEFORE I can paint.

I will be distracted by sound, temperature, and needs.

But the MUSE wins.

Without it, I am motionless.

I am unable to paint on canvas and create anything.

So reach those hurdles.

Climb over them.

Get to the other side.

Somehow find the strength to survive it.

And get back to your MUSE.

When you are there the colors will flow again.

Life will continue.