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Being An Artist Can Be Hard

December 11, 2012 by Jeane George Weigel

I am walking my path, pursuing my dream, following my bliss, so I understand I’m incredibly lucky. And yet I’m also unsettled because this life is hard. Being an artist is hard. There. I’ve said it.

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.