Everyone knows that creative expression leads to grand epiphanies and positive life changes. Creating art helps us feel passionate and excited about our lives, and when we feel that way, we’re open to change. Despite this wonderful notion, most of us believe we don’t have a creative bone in our bodies! For instance, I recently spoke with an exercise instructor who spent ten minutes assuring me that everyone else in her family is artistic but her. When she finished, I suggested that, in fact, she IS an artist, moving her …

After a long day, creating is what centers me. Line and color somehow restore my natural balance. Ommmmmm…… Shanti Om.

It is a gift to be able to paint a particular picture or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day – that is the highest of the arts.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, Essayist and Poet