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…”