WOW. Today is the last day of 2021! 

In some ways, I don't want 2021 to end, because I’m enjoying the achievements & learnings I’ve gained. Yet in another, I’m ready to step up into a new year, with a revised vision of what's possible for me to achieve & grow towards in 2022. Seems I’m content to let go 2021, to move forward from where I’ve been, & step towards a fresh, revised vision of what my creative ‘good life’ can now look like. 

After reflecting on 2021, & looking at my Dec 2020 written vision of things for 2021, I'm surprised to see that yes, I did indeed creatively ‘BLOOM’ :

• I parked my ass where my heart wanted to be.
• I consistently dedicated daily time & attention to my creative practice - made so much easier to achieve once I secured a dedicated studio space to nest in, away from the world, so I could ‘safely’ settle into my own creative world!!
• I focused to flourish - strategically choosing to focus all my attention on photo collaging from my pictures, to evolve that to the next level. 
• I kept a consistent focus on MY creative process- MY making- just because I love it so much!
• AND - I consistently tweaked & refined things to make them better - & more 'me'!

Since my exhibition 'Louder than words' , I’ve taken time off to relax, tidy up the studio, & allow the experience & accomplishments of 2021 to settle in, before I began to  formulate a fresh vision of what 2022 could look like! I’m continuing to learn so much, both creatively & personally, that my evolving & growing is more of a combined collaboration with both! Creativity & I are not separate from each other at all !!!

I find myself getting closer & more intimate with that fact. More at ease with it, setting no boundaries between them. Listening to what both wants, yet collaborating, & resolving to have a relationship with both, where there isn't any taking of sides, just an amicable agreement between both as to what happens next, with consideration for each other's wants, & point of view. I’ve seldom experienced my life like this - & I’m grateful to be experiencing it now - at 60 years young!

The quality of my life has immensely improved in 2021. I am indeed beginning to truly live my own version of a creative ‘good life’, without inner conflict, without shame, without doubts or fears, without any need to ‘fight’ for it. I can simply just live it. 

WOW. I’ve traveled such a long way….. & at last - I'm finding 'myself' again..... the original version of myself that does not feel obliged to meet anyone else's expectation or standard. I'm free to simply be who I choose to be.

Thanks 2021 xxx