Creative Frustration

So what do you do if you are always happy and things seem to always still be challenging in life? If everything you do seems to still take you in a dead end. If the world is ending despite your positive attitude. I do not recall anyone so happy and positive that has had a bad life experience. I see some people come down with end of life illnesses and have an amazing experience in their last days. Reconnect with loved ones lost. Experience times that filled them with completness. Gave their family and friends loving last memories of them. We all have something good to give each other in any time of our life. We all can be so giving of ourselves and make someone feel empowered by the gif of love you offer. There is enough to go around. Al you have to do is turn to your flank and smile. Give a hello. Compliment someone. Wave to the beggar. If you cannot afford to support him smile. Greet a co-worker. smile at the cash register person.  Let a person in your lane once in a while. Wave at the person that lets you in their lane. Say thank you. Open the door for someone. Small things that will in turn give you a greater chance of having that reward of joy. Change your attitude towards people. wish well not bad. Do you get what I am saying here? KARMA is a bitch that never forgets.

Life Is Art. Art Is Life. Art Imitates Life

Dont mind the title. Whether it has anything to do with what I write has no relevance. What I tell you in my words is not to amuse you but to inspire you and sustain you through the good and the bad times. We all should have an outlet of sorts. An outlet to physically release. An outlet to mentally and emotionally release. We need to lean on something or someone from time to time in our lives. But only lean on that or someone for a short time and then get strong and move on. Do not linger in your self pitty. Do not feel sorry for yourself for very long or the powers of who ever may capture you in its prison and shackle you with desparety.

Recently I have had some trying times. Not drama or anything, just some challenges. As I break words with you here I am being challenged. I have some little battles to overcome. I worry for a bit. Make a plan if I can and then move on. Yes it is easier to say than to practice sometimes but we have to believe that we will overcome the obstacles the ultimately we have created at somepoint in our immediate past. And for some they created their own challenging situations years ago thinking they can run away but they caught up and all of the sudden. "woe is me, feel sorry for me".

We have to be strong and aware that we have control over our lives. We have to know that every action has a reprocussion. No one gets away with everything. At some point things catch up to you. I know. Boy do I know. We also have the option to be good. And all that is done good is rewarded. And we also have the choice and the gift of joy. This is the most important part of this rant of mine. For those of you that have been reading my blog regularly. It is intended to inspire the artist everywhere. I want you to understand that we have to keep the control in our hands. Do not give the control to others.

Let me put it this way. If I wanted to paint a masterpiece and be proud when I show up to the grand opening of the Gallery show, would I want to have someone else paint the masterpiece? Well. maybe some of you would. But I want to take credit for my creation. SO> why would I let others manipulate me into living anyother way except with joy. My Joy. Why would I let anyone take away my joy by believing falsehoods, lies and letting them control my emotions. I have done all of the above.

As life artists we have to create for ourselves a wonderful experience. Being happy and filling your mind with joy is a great start. Being happy where you are at. Right now. Go to the mirror. Tell yourself how much you love you. smile. Practice smiling. I know I had a problem smiling. Now I am loud and obnoxious and happy. I love to laugh. I love to hug everyone. I kiss my friends when I see them. they think I am weird but when I dont do it they think something is wrong. They ask me if I am ok because I am not as affectionate as the time before. We are all yearning for love. We are all born looking for that love and we never stopped. We just get used to being around negativity that we look for it. Stop that vicious cycle. Jesus said Love Thy Neighbor. I wonder why. Love thy self first.

I can go on and on about this subject. Instead I will save it for the next entry. Quit your bitching and moaning and get a life. Find the life of your dreams. Make it happen today. Smile. Love. Remember Joy. Love. Inspire someone. Take a deep breath. Smell the roses. Smell your feet. Wake up. Smell the coffee. Take some smelling salts! Do whatever it takes to know that life is here and now. We are guaranteed only the moment we are in. the next moment is not assured.

How Do I look Up To You?

I have been avoiding writing in the blog for a bit because I am undecided whether or not I want to keep it. I know the three people that read it will be disappointed. I initially wanted to have a place where artists can relate to the struggles and learn from each other. The information I write about are mostly from my self expression of life. I do relay the feedback from other artists. My blog has evolved into a hybrid of sorts. On the one hand it is for artists. On the other hand it is the creative idea that we are all artists creating a life for ourselves knowingly and unknowingly creating. We make for what we want in our lives. We are dreaming all the time using all of our senses asking God and wishing for something or a situation. We are always hoping and looking at everything in our life expecting something to change. We change it withour effort sometimes. The effort is in the emotion of it.

This blog has become a way for me to help others see what I have learned over the past few years. A new way of looking at life. I new way to create. A way that I finally know after a full life of living I have enjoyed my days. The finality of life is not so depressing anymore. I relish in today. I look forward to tomorrow. I cherish the connections, friendships and aquaintences I encounter on a daily basis. I love my family more. When I see them I hold them dear. On the other hand. I have been staying away from the negative that has afflicted me over the years. Not letting people get into my head so to speak. I will surely show them my love but when it is too much to bear I move forward. Moving forward can be painful. You leave the pain behind that was a crutch you looked forward to feeling. Sometimes the pain from our bad experiences is like an addiction. We love to have drama to justify the errors in our ways. We love to have THAT story as to why we have a desperate life. We do not have the courage sometimes to leave it all in our rear view mirror. Looking in the mirror is a challenge. We see what we really are. We see the soul in ourselves when we look into our own image.

Sometimes we ask ourselves who do I follow? What do I believe? Where do I go to get inspired? We run away from the fact that the inspiration is within. We follow our inner voice. I call it my soul. My spirit. My inspiration. The God inside of me. The creator's DNA. We all have that capacity to grow from within. We do not need a crutch or someone else to define us. We have our bearings. We have our faith. Our faith in the large voice that tells us NO when we are wrong. That GIANT desire when we are inspired yet we do not listen. We hear it but we are in denial that we are capable of the dreams we have. Dreams are those LARGE Voices. Dreams are our soul speaking to us. We are powerful. We are beautiful perfect creations yet we allow the worldly lies to impair our true vision for ourselves whatever that may be. So the question should be is How do I look up to you? And that should be addressed to the mirror every morning. Make yourself proud. Follow you. Inspire yourself.

Happy

Are you happy? Can you honestly say that you are? If you are not what is keeping you from being happy? Money? Status? Looks? Love? Relationship? Excuses? How do you get from unhappiness to happiness? Is it some level of attaining that something first before you can feel shangrilah?? Why can't you just make the decision to be happy. Feel complete because you want to. Why can't you just love the person you are and not let life's standards become you. We all have a choice to make our own. Yet we believe the lies. The world is caught up in this whirlwind of distraction and we cannot focus on what is important. Us. Our soul. Our dying spirit. If only we can hear that crying voice inside yearning to feel the joy we were born with. We miss that innocent happiness that we had as children. We avoid it. I can remember the feeling of being outside with my friends running all over the neighborhood playing chase, tag or hide and seek. Innocently , fearlessly. Not worrying about circumstances or the danger of young children alone on the streets. We were so very happy. Screaming making noise. Saying hello to the neighbors. Waving at the passersby in their vehicles. Talking with the local police officer. It was such an innocent time. I finally after all these years feel that happiness in my heart. Amongst all the daily stresses I face and not allow to penetrate. I arm myself with innocence. The innocence our creator gave us at birth. the joy we had as children. Some adults, and parents rob our youth of these delicate times. these memories never become. Their innocence is taken away. they justify this atrocity by pointing to their own childhood missing this glorious time. So now our children suffer. Is not the children of the world our most precious natural resource? A source of love and joy for all of us to protect and admire. To learn from to keep us sane? To remind us that life is precious. our world leaders are selfish. We are selfish. I can continue to go on about this. And with a passionate roar yell from the top of my rooftop. What will that accomplish. All I can do is love you. Love my family. Love my children and their children. Reach out to the reachable. help the people that allow. Look in that mirror of yours and listen to the image looking back at you telling you that you are a piece of you know what. The image in the mirror is perfect. A perfect creation or Lord has made. That image watches us all the time. Waiting for the image and the life to meet and become one. When will we become one with who we are suppose to be? When will we love innocently, fearlessly and unconditionally as a child does to their parents or caretaker. Nuf said. I love you!