This week has been highlighted by one of the worst head colds I've had in years. It wasn't a bad week overall, but the other drag was the fact that my husband caught the same type of cold this week! We were two pathetic peas in a pod! Studio time consisted of only one day this week, and I somehow managed to complete two paintings. While painting doesn't exert a great deal of physical energy, it can tax me mentally at times, especially when I'm exhausted and feel like shit! Like I wrote in last week's post - it's not about me; when the creative muse and spirit take over, I step out of the way.
One night over the past week when my husband and I were home sneezing and sniffling, we watched a movie we hadn't seen in a while. It was "The Bucket List" starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I'm not going to spoil the film for you in case you've never had the chance to see it, but it does pose numerous questions that we could in fact take seriously. Throughout the movie, with it's humor and drama, the two main characters of Carter (Freeman) and Edward (Nicholson) are changed forever and not just by the bucket list.
Life presents us with the greatest challenges - to live or not to live. To engage or just to pass by. Can most of us say that we just don't exist from day to day? Or what we do is "...for the sake of my family."? Are we taking time to do things for ourselves and to live a balanced life? My husband Dave and I have added skydiving onto our bucket list, but we've got a ways to go before we accomplish that, mostly health reasons. But - we can do this.
You can do this too - engage and live. I know you can.
Until next time, The Living Painter,
Jill
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