more time…

  i wish there were more hours in the day. i see some of the artworks that women are creating and showing on their blogs and i just wish i had more time....i do try to make room for it all but in the process i just have to let go of some expectations along the way - some unrealistic expectations. it's all part of the process...as so much of life is - the gentle balance of holding on and letting go all at once. my students were studying van gogh the other week and i came across this quote of his - it has really stayed with me.

"But when will I do the starry sky, then, that painting that's always on my mind? Alas, alas, it's just as our excellent pal Cyprien says, in En ménage by J. K. Huysmans, the most beautiful paintings are those one dreams of while smoking a pipe in one's bed but which one doesn't make. But it's a matter of attacking them nevertheless, however incompetent one may feel vis-à-vis the ineffable perfections of nature's glorious splendors." ~ Vincent Van Gogh