03/18/2020
After a very long weekend away from the studio, I’m back. My assistant left it nice and neat for me. A few short hours and it looks like this! It took me several days to wrap my head around everything happening around us. And how super careful I have to be with a compromised immune system. In that time, I nested at home. Surrounding myself with my plants, orchids, aquariums, dogs and the greatest guy in the world. I’m the kind of person who can’t watch the news. The negative energy from the world highly affects me. So I have to get quiet and find my center. It’s very much like the uncertainty and fear I felt before, during and after my surgery and cancer treatment. I looked back at what lifted me up at that time.... It was simply the love. It was not only the love I received from my family and friends. It was the love I received from all of you. Although most of us have never met in real life, I could feel the love and energy. And I could feel another kind of love when I started to paint again. My joy from the process flowed out and was returned to me in healing love. So during this trying time, I’ll remember all these things. I choose not to live in fear and worry. I choose to live in love. I surround myself with quiet beauty. Many people don’t know this, but most of the time, I paint in silence. It allows me to be even more conscious of the flow of love. Surround yourself with your loves, whatever they will be. Take all the precautions suggested to all of us, but let go of the worry and what if’s. Let go of all the things you cannot do, and concentrate on what you have and can do. Live in the moment. Enjoy this time. Love is all around you. Surround yourself with it. You are safe and you are love. And a miraculous thing will happen, your energy flows into the world, and other people will feel it. I will feel it. You don’t have to see them, touch them, or even communicate with them. And I believe it keeps going and going and going. Choose love. ❤️💖🎨🙏
