The best dreams happen with your eyes wide open.

   So, maybe it's taken thirty years but I think I am back in a kind of zone I haven't felt since Sweetwater Studio days. I am out of the box and it is feeling so good, dawning on me the same thing I've been speaking to my art-kids is true for me, "just keep working, your best is good enough" gee how liberating is that! We had another great meal/feast last night and then Peg scrapped pics of her grandson while I painted, and we listened to great music and popped back and forth and talked; that's why I spun off the oil stuff for a bit I have to really focus when I am doing realistic style stuff...can't be talking and laughing and such.
  Being around my childhood long friend has given energy to my sense of coming of age and pieces falling in place. Like few others we can reflect on our journeys and share the insights, joys, and sorrows. There is no worry here of needing to censor truths it is an unconditional trusting kind of space and a blessing. I may be misunderstood or labeled by others, somehow it just doesn't matter so much when there is the knowledge that those who truly know us see beyond those labels. Feeling free to be my perfectly IMPERFECT me, what a concept! I hope all reading this are approaching 2011 with a childlike spark of optimism and I wish us all a good growing season in 2011.