As I think you know, my daughter’s been drawing and painting since she could wrap her hands around the utensils. She gets better and better — and she calls herself an artist. She is an artist — and I’ll encourage her to go as far with it as she wishes.

Here’s to raising our girls to be their true, creative selves!

I just want to hug you! So … *HUG*!

Thank you for sharing this interview. Christine’s approach to life, to knowing “self” and being able to bring forth our mindfulness to living and a commitment to “self” is a rewarding and enriched way of approaching how we live our best lives.

My Little One has been exploring art since she was a little younger than Maddie. She’s going on 11 now, and I’m already certain that she will be a professional-quality artist by the time she graduates high school. It’s just like you describe it: just picking up a brush or trying a new technique or whatever, just because you love it, and screwing up, and then trying and trying and trying until you figure out how to get the result you want, all because you have a passion for it.

-TimK

That aside, even if you don’t see it that way, you’re on your way to achieving your heart’s desire. No one “put Heather in a corner” (to paraphrase Dirty Dancing) when you won Manitoba’s Communicator of the Year. You got to experience your heart’s desire in that moment. The lightbulb came on and I daresay whatever your physical reaction to the “Aha Moment” is showed up.

I believe in my heart of hearts that you can do it. You will make it. And I’ll be cheering for you all the way. <3