{on leaping}

There are times when you know that you are standing on the edge of something magical.  I've been in this place before.  I've taken bold leaps towards my dreams and I've scurried back to the safety of what I've always known.  It's how it goes hey?  Back and forth, back and forth.  Forwards and backwards in my creative journey.  

But each time I'm somehow stronger for the leaps and wiser for the falls.  I wouldn't take life any other way.  Well, perhaps I'd take the easier path some of the time!

Today I'm finishing up in my full time job.  I truly tried hard to make it work, to find a way to give it my all.  But in the end there was nothing left for art.  At the end of the long days and weeks I came home depleted and exhausted and I couldn't paint.  And a life without painting is no life for a painter.

And so I've leaped.  Just like I did early last year.  But I think this time around I'm a little wiser, perhaps a little more certain and a whole lot more determined.  Time will tell I guess.

Where to next is the big question.  Don't worry though.  Not surprisingly I've got a million ideas and a whole lotta plans.

The future is beckoning.

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