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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.
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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.
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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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I absolutely love your art! Glad this year was a great journey.
I’m so glad you found your wings! Your art looks great, and I’m so glad you’re just soaking it all in. I need to check out your playlist too!
Thank you so much Bob!
Thank you Mama!