All of life is about process, isn't it?  Learning, doing, growing.
   Yesterday I moved some furniture around in my little cottage & discovered a treasured book by Jack Canfield, cocreator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series.  This treasured book by him, however, is The Success Principles, How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.
   Inside the cover I'd written "Summer 2005", when I purchased & first read this terrific book.  I don't know how many times I've gone through it, but for several years since buying it I began in January, reading and putting into practice many of the lessons I learned within its pages, marking it all up & making notes in the margins.
   Just now I read something in the introduction I'd like to share with you...a "from me to thee" goody.
   Canfield quotes Henry James: "It's time to live the life you've imagined."  Gotta love that!  Then Canfield writes: "....any change requires sustained effort to overcome years' worth of internal and external resistance. Initially you may find yourself getting very excited about all this new information.  You may feel a newfound sense of hope and enthusiasm for the new vision of your life as it can be.  This is good.  But be forewarned that you may also begin to experience other feelings as well.  You may feel frustration at not knowing about all of this earlier....."   He goes on.  "Just take a deep breath and realize that this is all part of the PROCESS (caps mine)of your journey.  Everything in the past has actually been perfect.  Everything in your past has led you to this transformative moment in time.  Everyone - including you - has always done the best they could do with what they knew at the time.  Now you are about to know more.  Celebrate your new awareness!  It's about to set you free."
   WOW!  And again I say, WOW!
   I'm entering a new realm of being an artist, although I've been one for years.  I'm excited about my journey, even though, of course, it's taking longer than I'd like to get to, as Canfield says in his title, where I want to be.  I want to replace my day job income NOW.  I want to have a bigger art making space NOW.  I want, I want.  But today, I CHOOSE to celebrate this new phase of my journey, and invite you to come along with me as I learn to walk it!
   (I'd insert a photo of Canfield's book here if I had learned to do that already...bear with me as I catch up with the times! LOL)