Category — random meetings

The other night I met this guy at a coffee shop, a pilgrim enjoying his last full day in Haifa before returning to home with his brothers.  He talked about his interests, split talents in the sciences and the arts, a desire to do more meaningful service in life as well as deepening his participation in a few other things.   He seemed focused for his young years.  The Bahai world is small, everyone seems to say when they bid themselves farewell.  This is true, and more than likely I could run into him again.  In the meantime, I was briefly inspired by his dedication to some mutual interests and managed to spend most of my day in good company, reading, and painting.

My anxiousness and inner-critic sometimes gets in the way of doing anything, so I made myself start painting the canvas without stressing too much about a plan.  The only problem with not having a plan is that my mind changes so much during the process that it’s hard to develop something coherent.  Thankfully oil paints are slow drying and that I could change my mind, even days later.

The verdict:

A work in progress.  The art show is coming up next month and registration is due to be submitted in a few days.  I’m fairly certain that I won’t have anything finished in that time that I would feel confident presenting, but the deadline has gotten me thinking more about trying to steer myself back toward having a more consistent creative outlet.  I’m trying to gather as much inspiration as I can, through google images, nature, blogs, my own musings, and yes, pilgrims & other such artists.