Bliss

“They didn’t have a lot of money,” Parker says. “They had no running water, they had no electricity. [She] was very limited in what she was able to do with her life. And yet her artwork was what she wanted to do and it’s something she was able to do. And touched so many other people. That’s pretty amazing.” Shannon Parker, Curator at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, story by Susan Stamberg at www.npr.org,  Maud Lewis

If you stopped to read this article you would know that Maud Lewis didn’t have many worldly possessions, nor was she famous. She may have been limited in what she could do with her life based on where she lived, who she knew, her formal education…and a host of other conditions and circumstances. She was not to be confined by any of it.

The great example she gives us is this…simply follow your bliss. Follow your bliss regardless of where in the world you find yourself. Follow your bliss. Follow the wisdom that is emerging from you rather than searching for it outside of yourself. Choose what makes you happy, what feels right, what you were born to be and do.

I’ll tell you what…people notice when you are living bliss. They notice because they can feel it, it’s powerful…and they want it too! I love this painting of black cats. I can feel their ‘cat-ness’. It makes me smile.

Thank you Maud Lewis. I still feel your bliss.

Much, much love
Paula