Breaking Up ...

may be heart to do but when you begin to feel the completion of that cycle...whoohoo!

There's all sorts of advice out there on how to mend a broken heart. I kind of wonder if your heart ever really gets broken. Isn't our minds that get us into trouble. Conjuring up all types of scenarios, shoulda, woulda, couldas and great expectations! If we could really just relax and take things slow with significant others, life would be sooo much easier to flow through. I've personally learned that less is more. You don't have to give too much information in order to be honest. After all are you on an autobiography interview or are you getting to know this person? Not everyone can handle information overload nor should they feel obligated to. Keep your baggage to yourself and your therapist. Had I followed my own advice, I would probably still be in a couple. Then again all goods things sometimes come to an end to make room for something or someone better. Just be free and be "easy". By that I mean keep it light and don't get too serious about everything too soon. Here's to the new spring season and the love it will bring!

WAKEUP CALL!!!

Yesterday, I was called to an impromtu family gathering. On Tuesday, my brother had an on-the-job accident. He's an elevator technician whose real passion is building working model airplanes and drawing amazing ink art. As freak luck would have it, the wheel that pulls the cables to make the elevator go up and down, rolled over both of his hands while he was oiling the cable. OUCH! Thank God he still has all of his fingers even though they had to cut and reattach his left ring finger, which is still broken. Through all of this he still wants to go back to work. Mind you, this being his 3rd on the job accident. In his mind, he still has responsibilites and bills to pay.

I'm afraid for him but it saddens me that this is where must of us are in life. We ignore what we love so that we can pay bills. Even if we are faced with the greatest of dangers. Even if it means we could lose the limb that we need must to carry out those passions. I, too, am an artist. I spend 40 hours a week sitting in front of a computer doing non-photo/art related work, while doing my business part-time. A few years ago, I was out of work for two and a half months with the beginning stages of carpal tunnel. It was to the point where I couldn't turn a door knob without my hands cramping with sharp shooting pain. My brother's near finger loss reinstilled in my mind the thought that what you don't use, YOU LOSE!!!

Do what you love NOW!!! Not just to pay the bills. Where there's no way, a way will be made if you just ACT!!!