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The Road Less Travelled

Glory Wood

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February 17th, 2013 - 02:16 PM

The Road Less Travelled

Recently, I read an article by Leslie Neilson who owns “Inspired Living” in Boyne City, MI. www.baliinspiredliving.com. She’s a wonderful gal with a gentle loving spirit, who is very knowledgeable about her products. Leslie shared how she was living her dream, and states that had she taken a different path, she might have had a totally different experience, one that would not have been her dream or living her life’s purpose.

My dear friend, Jan, who is also a creative (a successful publisher) has been urging me to write “Blogs”. She has always been very supportive of my creative endeavors so I take her advice seriously. I wasn’t sure what I would say, and then I remembered Leslie’s words from her article and how after reading them, I gave thought to the paths in the road I had taken on my life’s journey. It seems I always choose the “road less travelled”. To this day, I do not regret any of my career choices, since they all led me to this very moment in which I have a multitude of blessings.

My two career choices, my passions, have been art and spirituality. I have managed to give both as much energy as possible. I thought at one time I had to choose between them until I realized they work hand in hand. When I was focusing on the counseling and teaching programs, I used my creativity and art in bringing new ideas into these areas which proved very helpful and supportive to my students and clients.

While painting, many times the spiritual aspects of my teachings came through in my work. Images appear. Images, I hadn’t deliberately painted, and on seeing them I would enhance what was coming through. An example is the “Mother and Child” painting on my website. When I dropped paint onto the paper the baby appeared and so did the mother. I used color and value to give them depth so whoever viewed them could experience their fullness.

The painting “Birds of a Feather” was again a happening. That is what I now call them “happenings,” since I didn’t deliberately paint the images; they just appeared when the paint came in contact with the paper or canvas. Over the years I have had some incredible “happenings”. I am often in awe of what materializes. Needless to say, as an artist it is very exciting.

I have always lived my passion and loved what I do, although it hasn’t been easy being true to my craft as most artists will agree. When most of the population is going with the flow of life (these are society’s left brain, logical, analytical types), the creative artist (processing more readily from the right side of the brain) is swimming upstream against the current—status quo. They have been branded crazy, different, strange, eccentric, derelicts, irresponsible, rebels and so on. In fact, they have been given a bad rap, but some of these “eccentric crazies” have made incredible contributions to society. Some of their biographies would make your head spin. Their lives were never boring.

Times change, artists are more sophisticated now, still some “crazies and eccentrics” but all in all, many professional artists are just that – professionals, like any other individual in a professional career. They have to be in order to survive in the world of the logic-left brain majority. They perfect their skill, work hard and set up successful businesses (not their best aptitude, but they do it anyway). It is a competitive world in the art business so they have to keep on their toes juggling to make time to paint, to create and still run a business.

It takes courage, passion and a belief in oneself to succeed. Artists bring beauty to a more or less colorless world. They bring magic from their world and their hearts to a canvas, a sheet of music, an instrument, a piece of clay or marble, stirring the imagination and hearts of others to move forward to be all they can be. They challenge individuals to go beyond their psyche into their deepest emotions.

Love and Blessings,
Glory

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Jan Reed

11 Years Ago

Sault Ste. Marie, MI - United States

Go forth ... And blog some more .... :-)

Jan Reed

11 Years Ago

Sault Ste. Marie, MI - United States

Glory ... Your talent as an artist is expanded by your gift for the written word. Great blogging!