A year passes so fast! A year at the academy, that is.

By the time of june i am busy with focussing on the summer but also closing up activities for te Academy, since it is now summer holidays.

The year has finished and a new year has not even started but of cource there is already consideration about how the next year should start and i'm have contact with one ore more other board members already.

It has been a busy year for me. Artwise, but also with coaching.

A lot of unexpected turns in the last area and working hard to reach my goals. So hard that even the time for the Academy had to suffer under it some times.

Well, that's just the thing about being me: i do so much stuff together, sometimes even i don't know how it al fits in my agenda.

But it does. And it makes me feel guilty towards the Academy, guilty towards the people i coach, guilty towards myself but most of al: guilty towards this incredible talent called: 'the talent of being able to make Art'. I'm really selling it short.

I had to make a difficult dicision. Although i love drawing and i was really enjoying the fact that i had picked it up again resently (spending more apare time with making drawings, that is), i had to let that one go. Time can only be spent ones and i noticed that i might be needed on other area's. So i gave it up. 

I ignored the voice in my head that said: 'What's another year? You already been used to running from one place to another this year a lot, anyway. Why don't you accept that for this new season and finish wat you started picking up again? 

Indeed  (i am a christian) i remembered an old lesson in one of the biblebooks - i can't remember which - that finishing is better than starting. So although i stopped with the drawing lessons at the Academy, i started drawing whenever i saw a chance. Once or twice a week instead of every day. Because: what is another year running, when you can slow down and take steps easily? One drawing at the time.

So i finished some kind of way: stopped with the lessons only to start drawing for fun and without having assignments for that. It feels lovely. I'll gladly advice everyone to continue something they enjoy for a while, without the pressure of having to do so. I'm sure you will find a way in that, like i found mine. Hold on to that thought, when a season is changing.

Without running, but just with passion and whenever it is possible to create the time, you might come to enjoy what once felt as some sort of heavy duty again. And maybe, just maybe, there will come another moment when you will  prepair your wings once more - to take off with this (talent) and just fly...!