lifes journey

01 - Commit to Something Scary A lot has happened in my life over the past few months, but I'm used to being busy so on the surface my day-to-day activities didn't appear to be anything out of the ordinary.  But, I had noticed changes. I'd been spending fewer hours working each day, fewer days each week. Initially, I attributed the shift in my work schedule to trying to live a more balanced life. But, after some honest analysis, I realized that many of the things on my "to do" list where things that required me to go outside my comfort zone.  There were phone calls and follow ups that I was putting off. I needed to contact and get in touch with some people I didn't know well, and speak with others who work in areas of the art world I'm less familiar with. Furthermore, many of the "to dos" I'd been avoiding revolved around making decisions and commitments about events or activities that will take place 6 or 10 month...

I posted 2 images this morning, taken through the windows of where I live, one looking coastwards, a matter of 4 miles to the West and one Eastward toward the Western Edge of the Lower Fells, the contrast was not so much one of landscape but of the sky.  To the West of me illuminated gunmetal blue indicative of a seasonal thunder and lightening storm and to the East, blue and clear sky through the broken cloud painted by the sun, there is but 8 miles between the two and here I sit, equidistant between the two or, as is the local dialect, 'twixt twa'. This has not always been the case for me, I have always been a warm weather person and often escaped the English winters for sunnier climate, my argument and basis for a life of exploration and discovery, Spain, Tenerife, Saudi Arabia, India, Greece et al how, I wonder, did I ever find retirement living in this sometimes cold and unforgiving environment. Should I choose to ponder this question I would for sure spend too m...