I'm taking flight!!!

I received my book yesterday in the mail. With the kaos of the day it has been passed from the dinner table, to the coffee table, to the side table, to a chair. It is quiet now, both boys are sleeping and I finally get a chance to open it's cover to read and to look at the great artwork inside.

"I'll share with you the whispers of my own heart, how I ignored them for most of my life, and how once I started listening to the language of my yearnings, buried dreams became unearthed and creative joy exploded into my life. I'll share how to listen to the whispers, the callings of our heart, can lead the way to a rediscovery of self, a more creative life and a set of your very own wings" CHAPTER 1 Taking Flight by Kelly Rae Roberts

I found this very first page to be very intriguing and oddly enough....INSPIRING!!

Hello!!! are you there INSPIRATION!!!!

So I have been up for the last couple of hours thinking and not sleeping (FYI it's 4am) and thinking of where an artist gets their inspiration from. That has always been my downfall, do I even have it? I'm sure I do, I'm just looking in all the wrong places. I have always thought that my heritage is my one and only inspiration (for those that do not know I'm Puerto Rican) so I have always been drawn to that culture and history. I feel that I fall back on that too easily and I don't think of the big picture. How do some people make or get really simple ideas and it's OMG the new dawn of the decade has arrived? I don't get it. Here I am a person who has been drawing since I can remember, taking art lessons from private teachers and I feel, that I am a person who knows how to draw and not an ARTIST!!

Confused yet...stay tuned for more!!!!

Don't get me wrong I love my heritage with a passion, maybe I'm just psyching myself out.