Reef Girl 1
Watercolour 1/2 sheet
Copyright 2009 Jean Burman
This week… in what can only be described as a series of seriously serendipitous circumstances… I became Artist in Residence at the Sebel Reef House & Spa in idyllic Palm Cove. This entails painting there three days a week and so far the experience has been hugely rewarding.
I mean to say… who is able to paint each day in such an idyllic location? I get to meet and talk with people from all over the country and around the world [which of course I have been lucky enough to do here online for a number of years... but that's kinda different... grin]
Most people are really friendly. Many are inquisitive about the painting process… so I have had to quickly become used to people watching me work! But for the most part they are very forgiving… and keen for me to get the washes right first time. And sometimes I actually manage to do that [grin]. Reef Girl 1 was painted on location there this week… and has gone to be scanned and reproduced on paper as well as stretched canvas. Reef Girl 2 is still out paddling… but I will post her here as soon as she’s done.
Funny how life has a certain bitter sweet quality right now. There is a real sense of the old giving way to the new… and the sweet sadness that this evokes. But along with it comes the stirrings of excitement about the future and the experiences and adventures that no doubt lie ahead. At last the Universe has begun to open up… offering a small but promising glimpse of the way forward.
I have always thought of life as a long corridor of possibilities and opportunities. Along the way… some doors we open… others we choose to leave closed. I have on occasion looked back with a sense of regret at some of the unopened doors along the corridor of my life. Whether through obligation to others… or a serious lack of commitment to myself… for one reason or another I had sometimes let the chance go by.
My friend Judith recently described it like this. Life’s opportunities are “floating by”… and we get to choose which ones we will grasp onto and float with. I like that analogy. It has a real sense of optimism and hopefulness about it!
Interestingly though… just lately I have noticed that the opportunities I had thought were lost are in fact still there… albeit now showing up in a different form. It now appears that some opportunities are apparently endless… determined only by our willingness to [at last] open the door… or to grab onto the chances that are still [incredibly] floating by after all this time!
There is also the possibility of course that I have been on the correct trajectory all along… simply biding my time… gathering the knowledge wisdom courage and strength to do whatever it is I am destined to do!
Slowly I am beginning to understand that life is a mystery… a maze of unfolding possibilities and unlimited potential.
Right now I am open to whatever comes.
I need simply to breathe and go with it.
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