I am blessed to have some wonderful women in my life, not least of which is my 15 year old daughter Ayana.  She is such a young ‘wise woman’ and I find myself constantly being surprised and greateful for some of the feedback that I get from her.  I tell her some of the challenges that I’m faced with, even at this age she grasps what is important and what is not.

Right now I’m grappling with fear and reluctance.   I quite like the niche that I have build around myself, less money coming in, but less ‘doing’ in the world as well.  More creativity, more allowing myself to work on my illustrations which is becoming increasingly  important and less driven or motivated by money and status.

I have some choices over the next 18 months and I feel like I have some work in progress that I want to offer to the world, some service, something therapeutic and creatively healing. I’m being driven by that inner intuition!

But it’s hard to get that out into the world.  At the illustration class that I was doing last year, some of the work was fantastic but everyone was somehow reluctant to release it into the world, is that a womens thing??

Tonight I found my Wacom Bamboo Fun graphics tablet that I bought when I was in Canada in 2009, it was buried at the bottom of a cupboard.  It felt like a symbol or something so let’s see where it leads.

The point is this blog is about finding peace and naming how it happens, it’s not just suddenly thrust upon you, usually it’s the realisation of the small things that bring you joy and allowing that in, being able to accept what works, feeding your spirit and your creativity calling forth ‘peaceful energy’.

So here’s to peace, until next time!