Questions for Today

The Daily Art Muse had two questions for today that might be worth thinking about, so I'm passing them on here while answering them for myself. You may also find answering these worthwhile. She wrote:

"I have two questions for you today: Which small detail of your daily life inspires your art? And something that I have been researching and exploring on my own – Does your art help the greater good in subtle ways? (part B to this question is – Do you want it to?)."

So...Which small detail of my daily life inspires my art? Well, I guarantee it is not the mess that I live in and sigh about daily. Just not enough hours to be the housekeeper that I wish I could be. But, although I would love to avoid the trite "nature" fall-back, it is actually true in my case. I am a morning person. Waking and greeting the dawn and the sunrise makes my day worthwhile and when I miss the sunrise or when the clouds are in the way, my day seems incomplete. I'm not a plant person (except for trees - I adore trees), but I love the colors that come in every sunrise and sunset, the stars at night, the moon and the varied personalities of the sky. These are inspiring for me and start and end each day as I thank the Spirit for allowing me to share in the great Song.

The second question is a bit harder. Does my art help the greater good in subtle ways and do I want it to? On this, I really have no idea. I know that sometimes people are happy when they see or receive my art, so I have helped the cosmic karma that day by adding to the positive and taking away from the negative. I know that every piece that I work on is a personal, direct, and physical prayer of thanks to my Muse and the Spirit. I am grateful for the skill that has been placed into my hands and give that skill back through my actions. I am a deeply spiritual person, but since I try to not impose my spirituality onto others, I tend to be a bit less than clear. But I hope, through my actions, that the Song will be heard just a bit more clearly than it might have otherwise.

Today I will start the day out with breakfast with a few dear friends, then run some errands, and I'm really going to try to fire up the kiln today and do a test fire of my latest experiment. Yesterday's "measure twice, cut once" worked out well. I now have the copper cut for my sigils project. But I also have to start on my Beading For A Cure project, and I'm still torn between two project possibilities. I do know that the beading will take center stage away from my drawing and enameling for a while, and although my beading is still creativity I will miss picking my pencils and colors for a while . OK, tirade over - LOL. So I'll show "Horse" as today's picture since that was last year's major beading project :-)