No art blooms without an artist blossoming! And like beautiful things that bloom, it begins as a tiny seed, a pinpoint of light, a spark of creativity. We are made by the Great Creator and we are intended to be creative. It is with that tiny inner message that our artistic path begins and changes and grows. The fragile tendrils of creativity expand into sturdy stems that shoot up to the light....growing into a unique destiny. Some of our friends and family may not get this and begin to downsize us with criticism or discount our efforts. We get this at a very tender young age often. My message as a young girl was, "Put that away and get your work done." But as I grew, other negative shrinking meassages came......"Artist's don't make a good living, that's la-la land....get a real job." There is no comfort in believing words that downsize us to fit another's view of us. The size the Great Creator wants to make us is none of our business and certainly no one else's either.
"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies, and so does a man." Henry David Thoreau
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