New Paths, new adventures, even if they are small

I am having so much fun with collage these days. I have fooled around with this art form throughout my life but it is beginning to come together for me now. Making pages and altering books is becoming an obsession. I comb yard sales, secondhand stores, dollar stores, sidewalks, the ground, wherever, for things I can include in my work. I look at everything with new eyes. In the last month, I read a book called The War of Art and it has begun to revolutionize my work, because I realized how much I have let resistance to what I really want and love to do control me. Now I am at war, fighting resistance at every opportunity. I know, that no matter what anybody tells me, that we humans will do what we want to do. We are all given the same 24 hour day and we all have limitations. But too often and possibly all the time we let those limitations control our lives. And the things that truly give us joy and enrich our lives get buried under countless excuses. We have been given one life that we know of for sure and it is up to us to live it. And I believe that when we begin to follow the dreams planted inside of us in whatever little way we can that we will find a route that has many open doors.
I used to question my desire to do many of the things I love to do. After all there is a very needy world out there and why should I be wasting so much time in the garden, or gluing together little things on paper, or piecing tile, etc. etc. etc. but then I saw a special on HGTV about a man called Pearl, who has spent years of his spare time learning the art of topiary even working by spotlight into the dark hours. His property looks like a park full of interesting Dr. Suess like trees and bushes. A lot of people would call it a waste of time. He could have been doing something else that benefited the needy people of the world. But something happened along the way, his confused and questioning neighbors started learning too and other areas of his community were enriched by his art. Now his property is used for church services, group visits, and the inspiration of children. It has become his gift to the world. It has enriched people's lives. I believe that there is in each of us something that fits us and that we are to do. I also believe it is a growing process that may change and take us in directions we never had any idea that we would go. We may do things along the way that we don't like and we may feel like we never can get to where our passion is, but if we fight the war of art and fight the excuses and resistance that stops us and hinders us, even in the most minute way we will go places we never imagined.