Hello NEW. I am soooooo grateful that it's a new week. Little did I know that hours after typing up a post about how I was going to be FIERCE in 2012 - I was crying like a baby. And if we're telling the truth - I was probably being WORSE than a baby because there was no amount of milk that could console me. After a decade of being fairly painfree in my hands I woke up last Sunday night with pain so severe in my right paw that I nearly drove myself to a wall. It was surreal. I'm not sure what hurt worse - my hand OR my pile of prepped canvasses with post-it notes and instructions for paintings planned for January. My heart. I couldn't MOVE my hand for the pain. I spent the night freaking out + beating myself up for not painting more Painting bigger. Staying up later. Taking more risks. Being more FIERCE. Doing my own thing. Painting more. PAINTING MORE. I bargained with the Universe. It was not pretty.
After a couple of days of my own pitty-party that darned hand of mine started to come around and loosen up a little. I chewed on Tylenol. Drank a couple of bottles of wine. Swam around in some confusion and REALIZED that this was my chance to be fierce. To listen. To act. To take the risks. To shut-the-eff-up about it and move. Do better. Fight back. Find answers. Do all of those things that seem unimportant until they are REALLY important.
So let's just say that it sucked. And it will probably happen again and again. But what a good reason to get FIERCE with what what's worth it. The exercise. The diet. The rest. The push. The puzzle pieces that are starting to fall into place.
SO. CRAZY. In honour of being fierce + ferocious - there are two new prints in my ARTSHOP... You better believe they are hung front + centre in my life. What do you need to be FIERCE ABOUT?
Today: Pilot goes back to school (finally!), I'm off to the dentist (another puzzle piece), I have an elk painting on my easel and some script work to do for NYC. I'm trying to get ready to go to the ALTITUDE SUMMIT in Salt Lake City next week, too. Which basically means I need to reorganize LINKwithlove, add materials, formulate thoughts, GET A HAIRCUT, and organize a special project I've been working on with someone very cool. I'm good. It's good. It's all good around here.
Heck - I'm celebrating!! Use the discount code HANDY to get $5 off prints in my ARTSHOP until midnight CST tonight (doesn't apply to GALLERY PRINTS).
GO!
