An Art Full Life

I have had my Facebook profile open most of the day...just perusing around, checking out unknowns and the known-very-well.  It has just occurred to me that the time that I used to put into this blog, now that time and attention has been redirected to social sites among the likes of Facebook.  And my activity on FB is mostly reading and glancing at posts and profiles, pictures and videos, whereas on here, I was composing and writing and posting. 

These differences got me to thinking about how I create art.  How much I love creating art.  And how much I have not been living that love of my life.  Not to say that I havent been creative and painting.  On the contrary, I have been more artistic lately than I have been in a long time.

But like I feel about the time I have been putting into this blog, the time I have been giving to my art is not enough, nowhere near enough.  I am craving more ways to express myself.  And this is a pretty good way right here, one that I am not using fully.
In other areas of my life, because of decisions I have made, I have had to shut down...which breeds within me a very overpowering desire to do the opposite in any other form I can imagine.  And that means I want to paint the world and tell everyone about it. 

Maybe this is where FB comes back in.  Having just posted about my weekend accomplishments, FB provides a way for me to unleash to the world those things that are not hidden about me, but just are not known by everyone or enough people.

Only the people that live in my house know that I cut the grass in that huge backyard on the riding lawnmower for the first time and that I did a damn good job the other day.  But that wasnt enough!  For me? I wanted the world to know what I had been up to.

So, you see, there is a place for my blog, FB and my art.  And Twitter if I ever start using that again.  Of course, when I am finished with a painting, I will post about it here and also on my art blog and also on FB, so how can I lose?  All that I can lose is time spent spreading the news of the joys I experience while creating art.  I do not see a bad trade-off there.
By the way, posted on FB about seeing the movie pictured above (Snow White & the Huntsman) over the weekend.  And now I am posting about that very fact on here as well.  Excellent movie!  It's good to be back on here!

A Patient Person (or how being a late-bloomer isn't always a bad thing)

Going to take my time with this one. Oh, wait, that's what I always do. I am the most patient person I know. It is thought that sometimes people miss out by not being in the fast lane. I have had that perception about myself more than once in the past. I have felt like I was sitting on the sidelines waiting for something while others whizzed by with their lives. I wanted to drive fast also to get to the vision in my mind of what I wanted my life to look like. But it always seemed to me that I was like the turtle: be steady, thoughtful. I was never good at being spontaneous with my life plans. I am the more "Let's plan this out, take our time and eventually when we get there it will be all that much more worth it!" Well, that WAS my old way of thinking. Is it any wonder that my results have not always come out the way I planned?

I now understand that there must be a symbiotic relationship between the hare and the turtle. I am trying to teach myself to be more Now of the Moment, while still taking time to plan, because planning insures that steps are not missed and important details are not left out of the final product.

Example: Wow, I just laid out my phone, keys and wallet on the bed. These 3 things are essential equipment for me to take with me everyday when I leave the house. If I don't plan to remember just one of those items, my ass is done. Without planning, my ass would be done every day.

But that has to be balanced out with living your life quickly, by the seat of your pants, jumping, leaping into fires unknown.

Dude, I have seriously jumped into some fucking hot flames with the quickness. Ask somebody!