I made a New Year's resolution this year to try to be more creative; to draw on the right side of my brain more instead of the organized Virgo left side.  Sooooo, I sat down and made a list of what really drew me in, what rang my bells, what would make me throw caution to the wind and just go for it!  Needless to say, I had quite a list!  One day two weeks ago I brought a picture into a picture framing store to have it framed.   The store was also an art gallery and they were offering a one day class on landscape painting in oils.  Well, I live in a place surrounded by mountain landscapes so I signed up on the spot!  Not exactly the behavior of an organized Virgo.  Not exactly the behavior of someone who never even picked up a paintbrush!  What had I done???  The day before the class, I was in an art store spending a fortune on art supplies.  There was a class of 5 year olds in there taking their first art lesson with real paint.  A little boy ran up to me to show me his painting on real canvas.  He was so proud of what he had done!  Well, I learned a lesson from that little boy.  No matter how much trepidation I felt at my hasty decision to join an art class, I would be proud of what I did and just proud that I had the guts to leap out of my comfort zone and try something totally new.  I mean, if a 5 year old could do it, so could I!  Right??  I also had another realization - when did we lose the spontaneity of early childhood?  When did we become afraid or embarrassed of just being who we are, who we knew ourselves to really be, independent of anyone else?  I want to get back to that again.  To be a child at heart again!  And so I started with the first class in painting last week.  I have a debt of gratitude to that little boy, and to my juicy crone sintwister friends who prodded me along with encouragement and advice in starting this new phase of my being.  By the way, that is also how this blog began!  Join me, if you will, in sharing your adventures!   Hang on to your hats!  It could be quite a trip!