life as a practice | High Road Artist

January 2, 2013 by Jeane George Weigel 4 Comments

An Excellent New Year’s Resolution

I am still sick. I tell you this not to garner your sympathy or to whine, but because it is an elegant lesson I’m being offered. I’m being reminded that I don’t get to dictate what will be.

I am Jeane George Weigel, a working artist living in the mountains of northern New Mexico, and I do not think you and I are so different.

Every single one of us longs to know what we ache for, to “follow our bliss” as Joseph Campbell famously put it. You may find yours as an artist, a writer, or a teacher. But I am convinced we all yearn to live what is in our hearts. Some of us spend a lifetime discovering what that is. Some never find it.

This blog is about a journey of self-discovery, yours and mine. I write about the experience of living an artist’s life and share musings and photos as this living experiment unfolds. It is my hope you’ll join in the conversation by writing to me about your lives and I dearly hope something, here, will inspire you.