"Love don't come easy
Sometimes, Love don't come at all..."
The Alarm, Love Don't Come Easy
This song resonates with me lately. Such a beautiful song. The lyrics I've quoted above really don't do the song justice but right now that particular line resonates with me.
Sometimes you really need to take a step back and look not only at your work but at your life. That is what my past year has been, a reflection of what I want, what I need and what that will mean to me and my family. Reflections on life take much more time, energy and often times more pain that you would think.
Nothing is black and white when it comes to life, I would love it if it was. Emotions are messy but without them you truly are not living. Right now I am focusing on living, not just breathing but truly living. Again, that is not as easy as it sounds. Life is really easy to drift through. It is so much easier to just walk on the path that has been laid quickly in front of you rather than take the interesting side path that you may have to forge yourself. Forging your own path is much more difficult but so rewarding.
So much has changed in my life this past year. My eyes were opened to so many aspects of me that I had either been ignoring or squashing. Freeing those facets has been... interesting. My art has changed. The variety of moods that I see reflected in my work have increased greatly. I also have a tendency to reach for the dark and spooky and then add just a splash of... well something. Cute and fuzzy is still in there somewhere, that style has never been a huge part of what I do but occasionally a fluffy little piece will pop out. I appreciate those as much as I do the Art Noir.
I am forging my own path right now. It is scary, it is difficult, and occasionally it is lonely, but I'm no longer content to just breathe, I want to live. I hope you will come along for the ride
Have a wonderfully wicked day,
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