Fearlessness

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~Alan Alda

So today begins week four of Fearless Painting. It has been a great experience to get to know and hang out with this group of women in virtual community. It's hard to explain how it works so well, being all online, but Connie, our fearless leader, is amazing. Every Sunday I get to click on a surprise package of videos, inspiration, challenges, and new assignments. It's like Christmas every week. What could be more delicious! The remainder of the week we paint, post our paintings online and comment on them, journal, share in weekly chats, blogs, and more. We come from every age, every walk of life, and many countries from the US to Romania, England to Australia, but what's been really great about Fearless, besides the wonderful sense of community is that I am PAINTING. A lot of crappy paintings and a few 'good' ones, but it's not about good or bad, it's about doing it, about being open to whatever comes along, about questioning where it comes from...in short, it's about process rather than product and that is enormously freeing - and joyful, intriguing, exciting, fun, and yes, less and less fearful. We're exploring our wilderness and our wildness with paint.

If anyone out there is interested in painting fearlessly, I strongly urge you to slide on over to Dirty Foot Prints Studio Workshops to see what she offers. And check out Connie's blog, too which can be accessed from the same link.

So here I am on a beautiful Sunday morning, sitting by the first fire of the season with a cup of tea, checking in on my tribe at Fearless, talking on the phone, making mental lists of things to do. I have three days off this weekend but they are slipping by so quickly! There is painting of course, the garden to winterize, the Sketchbook Project to start (yes, START! I haven't done anything but gesso some pages together to make them stiffer and only 2 months to go - eek!), dogs to walk, Etsy to check in on, wool to spin, books to read, and so much more. I am happy as I can be. All good.


You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. ~Mary Manin Morrissey

Dream BIG!