A step forward

The Harvest

 ”If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”
-Nora Roberts, fiction author

 

Three things were necessary before I finally was motivated to pick that paintbrush and start practicing:

1. A visit to my favorite arts & handicrafts shop in the nearby city

   This shop gives the same effect to me the same way I visit bookstores and libraries–my eyes would grow big and wild from all those “lovely treasures” waiting to be explored. The depths of my imagination is unstoppable I am literally tired and exhausted once I leave the place. Then I start to worry. I worry about not having enough craft to put all those ideas into action that in an attempt to “rescue” my thoughts and ideas, I would search my bag or my surroundings for something to write them on. I have this need to temporarily eternalize them hoping they come in handy once needed.

2. Reading a good or inspirational book

   “If you want to be a writer, then start writing.”
   This is the latest lesson or reminder I’ve read from a book this week. It even made me laugh. “Yes of course,” I told myself. “I wanted to be an artist, yet here I am not painting. A child can’t expect to be a professional pianist one day if he hadn’t played a piano.” And lastly,

3.  a visit/encounter with someone who’s been there

    At times I would click on all the link lists in other bloggers I often visited. That’s where I saw Gypsy-heart’sblog and that’s a driving force. It’s a good motivation to see someone doing the things they love to do and enjoying every minute of it. It’s inspiring to see how others develop the talents given to them and fulfills ones life in the process.

So there it is. The Harvest, because I can only reap what I sow.
This picture is now hanging in my kitchen and every time I look at it, my heart starts singing, “I feeel good…tananananana…”

It’s time

Koenigstein castle in Germany, taken Oct. 2005
“Get ready to free yourself and fly”

Many times today take a deep breath or two, place your hand over your heart and tell yourself silently or out loud that you are now ready to take a quantum leap into your success and highest good.

Source: Lynn Woodland Odyssey Oracle

Thank you Grace, for sharing this

Rotting within

“So sis, are you ready? … pause … well, last weekend mom decided to clean your room and voila! We have just discovered that most of your carefully stored boxes containing your memorabilia have been heavily damaged by those cute and lovable termites. The good news is, your boxes looked okay from the outside. Those termites have somehow found their way in secretly. Oh and your clothes and shoes inside the cabinet have been damaged too. So what do you think? What should we do?”

I guess there’s nothing to do but throw those damaged shoes and clothing away and condition my “most of the time normal” psychological self that it’s time to say goodbye to all the things pertaining to my past that I tried to keep all these years: to my favorite novels, collected stuffs from high school to college, written stories, letters, etc.

It’s one of those disappointments not worth saving because you know there’s nothing else to do but accept the fact, forget it and move on. But first, let me not deny the fact that upon hearing the news, all I wanted to do is fly back, search those %&*”§!?! termites burn and sent them to extinction.

My memorabilia boxes … it’s quite amusing how the boxes remained unharmed from the outside. Aren’t there many of us in such situation? Looking “okay” from the outside but rotting inside?

As for me, I guess those termites “helped” me if I am to symbolically consider what they did—erasing most of my past memories that’s hindering me from moving forward and starting new all these time.