Things have been busy: this last year has seen a mourning process continue in my life, the creation of a new life, a grand voyage overseas with my family (to visit my family!) and finally, on January 12th of this year, the birth of my daughter, Isobella Mai. A very long year – yet so short. Sometimes when one is trying to enjoy every minute of every day, those minutes and days seem to vanish away awfully quickly. Nevertheless, if one has a little bit of free memory and perhaps a camera, one can look back on the days afterward. Honestly at this point, I am glad of my camera because developmental milestones with my little daughter are often reached and passed incredibly quickly!

So here we are, a blog on canvas. I feel more inspired now than at any other point in my life: I suppose I just had to wait a little while to see the outcome of everything. I knew it would take a while to get going again: one cannot “force out” art, no matter how many hours one has to paint.

At the moment I am working on a large canvas – we’ll see how quickly I get that one done. I have a feeling it won’t be long… Then, it’ll be back to finishing off a few jelly fish. And then…then, ideas are abundant and collecting quickly in my mind. We shall just have to see what I decide to paint first…

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Life

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But in an era in which is seems the art of conversation is dying, maybe blogging is the way to go. It used to be that friends would meet up and talk about all sorts of interesting things – but there are times I feel that we are all far too busy to do anything like that, instead spending our time embedded in the grind of working for this corporation, or that corporation; worrying about how much the bonus is going to be; talking about business matters on the phone and generally spending far too much time not living, to worry about the fact that our lives are slipping away…over the horizon of forever…far beyond the reach of anything we could ever hope for again.

In short, what I am saying above is that I have made a conscious decision to stop wasting my life. To think more; love more; see more and feel even more than I ever did at any point in my life up to now. The reason for this sudden and fairly unusual (in the human race) turnabout, is something I will write about next. It’s a bit of a shocking introduction but bear with me. Afterward, I will write about other things I have in myself that make me, me.