Revenue stream goals for 2024: (1) The creation of 12 pastel still life’s. Below is one example of my work so far. The plan is to create and pick from the best when 12 or more are completed. (2) other revenue stream goals will be paintings in one or more of the following mediums: oil, watercolor or gouache. It’s been a while as my focus has been on Shibui Found Image Art. A pivot is a good thing as I write about Shibui. I am loving Paul Rembrandt pastels. The colors are amazing.

It’s been since 1994 that I have had fun with the pastels. I began Shibui 2011. A lot happened after that. I have my new home in my cottage studio and just now feel I am underway! A new easel awaits me! Varooooom! Or perhaps its “Let’s move it! Move it! Move it! More like that! I love claiming my Boho cottage studio!

Good morning sunshine! Let Wisdom speak.

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Let wisdom speak when drama hits your life. Listen to your intuition and higher self. Be thoughtful and do not forget yourself. That you are an individual despite all other hats you wear. You get to be you. We cannot lose what is truly ours. It’s all there shining through. Uncluttering life takes time, but it does not take forever. Just beginning one thing at a time creates an avalanche, and suddenly you let it pass by. you don’t have to hold it all back, making it precious when it’s not.

Strength comes from the experience of what has happened. It comes from letting go of things you can’t do anything about. It comes from not allowing yourself talk take over all thoughts. We need to have dreams, desires, wants. We need to embrace life! We need to find the good in things and have hope. For life to have meaning, we need to sweep away what does not support us.

When one door closes, another opens. This runs true. Living life does not grow if we stay stuck in things that hold us back. It is a worthwhile endeavor to live fully. We must “fight” for our chance to become. It is all about becoming after all. We experience life, and it changes us. It is the how we can change up. Take charge of what is yours to be in charge of.

I cannot help others in the way I want to and feel I am wounded because of what happened in my world. I learned this long ago. You get thrown off track at times because of the complexities of life, or other people. We humans are the hardest puzzles to figure out. But a puzzle can never be whole when pieces are missing. This is something not known but discovered as you solve the puzzle, then it feels upsetting to say the least. There is nothing you can do to fix the puzzle.

I make use of what I call “one liners” the idea is not to go “there!”. In other words, a simple statement regarding what I do not want to think about, knowing it often leads to stacking up pros and cons. I get tired of thinking. “One liners” are like: “Nope! Know that one! Not going there!” “Been there! done that!” Or simply, Shut up! Go away! Not today!” and then changing your thoughts up. Sometimes they are a bit longer. It’s important to realize a couple things. They work if you believe they are so. They need to be kept simple or the lead you off to where you don’t want to go. When a one liner does not work for you as you had hope, do something anyway and believe it will come to you later. The mind works to file our thoughts away to be used later. It functions for us, our minds help with what we do in life. This is why coming from our hearts and higher self’s matter. The mind predicts what it thinks you want; this is not necessarily what you really need.

Seeking purpose and using reasoning is far better than wallowing in self-pity. Put another way. Living with hurt and anger. Hindsight is indeed 20/20/. Rehashing what happened to you, practicing what you want to say, what you want to be known as the truest reality. The desire to be heard. Such things keep “it” alive, these things keep the hurt going. You cannot move forward hanging onto and hoping for things to suddenly be better.

It is far better to overcome and become more than “this”. Don’t let change make you fearful, alone, and forever trying to understand the experience. Time for all that is good and positive becomes wasted on finding lost puzzle pieces that evaporated into the ether somewhere, sometime ago. No one noticed in time to put them in the box.

You cannot know how long your life will be. So, what do you want to do with this chance to live life fully?

On with my day. I wanted to write a bit more about what I have concluded about my life. This is what rings true, feels dead pan on! This,___ Putting my conclusions into practice by doing the things that work for me makes me happy. I smile and laugh responding to my new self. Nothing is going to stop me now because I am finally living life as I choose.

Pejj Nunes 3/24/2026

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