My friend was looking for inspiring music, so I put together a mix for her as a gift. There’s something special about songs that reach deep inside and pull your heart straight up and out. When I listen to this kind of music, I feel like I can do anything, feel like I could run and run and run, feel like I could grow wings and just soar into the sky.

This year was like listening to those songs.

For the first in a very long time I didn’t greet the New Year with an eagerness to get the year over with. Instead, I felt a deep sense of accomplishment and peace.

Going back to school after years of working was a difficult and scary decision. There was a lot of unknown and I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to make it happen. However, this year I didn’t let the uncertainties stop me. I finally decide to go for the big dream, leaping into the unknown, hoping those wings would deploy.

Beyond all doubts and worries, they did, and I soared through this year with a delight and joy and peace I thought I had lost. Finding that this is the path I had been searching for all along has been an incredible realization.

I love art. I’ve always loved art. I love making art. And I love fantasy. I love telling stories and reading stories and I love the little mysteries and magics and beauties of the world. I love color and light and texture and costume and faces and history and nature. I want to spend my life learning and trying new things, making mistakes, and putting these things on the canvas until I can no longer do so. What a gift to finally understand this, after searching for so long.

Long ago I wrote a little story in my head about wanting to be a traveler, home in the Vardo, making art to pass the time, companionship in the friends I would find along the way, the unknown horizon ahead, ready to be revealed, just around the corner. This year I painted a little of that story.

Thank you to all the companions who traveled with me this year. I’m so very grateful for you. May this year bring you that much closer to your big dreams.

Luck, Love and Laughter to you all,
Sonnett

Playlist:
Kate Bush “Rockets Tail”
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex “Inner Universe”
Imogen Heap “Daylight Robbery” and “First Train Home”
Hikaru Utada “Passion”
Kerli “The Creationist”
October Project “Something More Than This”
Sarah McLachlan “Elsewhere”

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