Winter 2011

As I prepare for my upcoming solo exhibition this Fall and face the challenges and successes of a rapidly changing life, personally and professionally, I find my soul insisting that I allow myself to slow down and widen my focus on life and what it has to offer and more importantly, what I have to offer it. My renewed commitment to my friends and family is to spend quality time with them and nurture our relationships. To really make a difference I seek to understand life in its entirety and not dwell on any one of its many individual facets. To dwell is to lose yourself.

May I suggest to you as I am doing for myself, take time every day to learn something new by reading, have an intellectually stimulating conversation, or simply meditate and let your soul teach you somethng about you. Take time each day to look at the sky and appreciate the most incredible canvas of all - the canvas of God. It changes every second - never to disappoint. Take time to make art, to play music, to sing, to dance, to write and to dream. We must also take time to suffer and then to heal. It has taken me a long time to understand that the whole of life consists of a balance of positive and negative, good and bad, joy and despair and weakness and strength.

Do what you do best  - the best possible way you can. Think as much as possible about others first. There will be enough left over for you. Think only positive thoughts and if you find yourself going negative - stop and change your thoughts. Nourish your body with water, healthy foods and exercise. Quiet yourself enough each day to learn from your soul and trust your gut instincts. And most important of all - always let love win over fear.

In the words of a special friend - "dream big".

Tim