Introduction

As I write this I am 47 years old. I was born in the United States, and currently live in western Colorado. I believe that life has a purpose, and for me this means finding something I can do to help people be alive. I don’t mean adequate nutrition, clothing, and shelter. Of course those issues are important. I mean helping people find the life in their life. I want to encourage the living, remind the living of the joy and life and love of being able to experience all that we are capable of. To live fully. How do I propose to do this? Will I become a pastor or guru? Am I now a life coach with a “system” of secret rules? No, I will use the tools and skills that I have to offer. I intend to create visual art that celebrates a broad range of human achievements, moments when we are most alive as societies and as individuals. My hope is that this art will be a celebration of and reminder of the life found in our lives.

It is fair to ask why I have come to these conclusions. I anticipate that this blog will, over time, become a record of my journey, as well as a continuation of my evolving journey. Along the way we will discuss love, physics, politics, human behavior, economics, the meaning of life, religions, meditations, and any other label that will help relate my story. I will do my best to keep each post short enough to digest.

Why This Blog Now

I have, or had, depending on your time frame, an art series on www.kickstarter.com, a crowdfunding site. This project in economic terms has been a dismal failure. Why? There are likely many reasons. I think two primary ones are; lack of understanding of the mechanics of Social Media, and my own lack of understanding about my own message. My project title is “Sports – A Celebration of Life”, the link is here: http://kck.st/Q1b8tI

This failure is what caused me to think much deeper about what I was actually trying to accomplish. As it turns out, sports were just the tip of the iceberg. On Thursday afternoon, November 29^th, 2012 the light bulb came on. All of my philosophizing and study of love, life, spirituality, meditation, and physics came to this conclusion: we are meant to experience life and grow love, and help others to the same. It logically followed that my way of doing this is to be alive myself, and to do art I can do, and this could be done by creating art that celebrates the moments when we are most alive. I am not creating this blog because I have all the answers. I believe that this endeavor will be as much as an exploration of who I am and what is the meaning of life for me. In this I am not an island, and your feedback is welcome.

As I write this I have no idea what my professional and economic future looks like. To this point in my life I always had a pretty solid plan, a way to work for predictable outcomes. This is no longer the case. I am operating purely on the intuitive notion that this is the right thing for me to do at this time. I hope to do what I can, live in the moment, and let the path unfold as it will.

Why do we wait until death to celebrate life?

As I was thinking about the message I was trying to convey with my art, terms that kept coming up were something like “life celebration”, or “celebrating life”. So I did the natural thing, plugged these terms into Google and see what the world had to say. The vast majority of the top hits that came back had to do with funerals, funeral services and similar. Of course we should honor and celebrate life when somebody passes. But we don't have to wait until death to celebrate life.

Art Accessible To Everyone

My intention is that this art shall be accessible to everyone. This includes financially and intellectually. Each work shall have a medium type and price point that just about everybody can accomplish.  Even free when this is appropriate. This art shall strive to be readily understood, if not appreciated, by people from every background. This is not fashion for fashions sake or art for art’s sake, this is art with clear meaning for everyone. This partially a criticism and my reaction too much of modern art. Modern art is fun and thought provoking, but, purple people throwing green manure at each other doesn’t reach a whole lot of people.