What do you want to be when you grow up?
I’ve been taking riding lessons because I had a vision for a photoshoot that involves riding a horse bare back. So I decided to learn how to do it so I could make my vision a reality.
This is the exact same formula I followed when I started my career. I had no idea how to follow my heart and make money, I just believed it was possible and I moved in that direction, learning as much as I could along the way.
Now I see so clearly that if you want to have an inspired life you have to listen to the spark of inspiration and go in that direction even if it doesn’t make sense, even if you don’t know how and even if there is no proof you can do it.
Inspiration becomes direction when you listen to it.
I have a very simple question for you to spark your inspiration and lay out your purposeful (and profitable) path.
As children we are naturally drawn to certain things, ideas and fantasies. These are powerful clues about your unique path and purpose.
Answer this simple but profound question:
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I’d love to hear about your dreams. Post your answer in the space below.
June 24th, 2012 at 7:11 am
I remember when I was 9 years old I read the story “I am Joe’s Heart” in the Reader’s Digest and decided that I wanted to be a Heart Surgeon – The path to “heart surgery” and how that turned out was pretty different then what I imagined then but I do believe it’s EXACTLY how I serve now – helping people at the “energetic” level – doing “heart surgery” to eradicate fear and replace it with VIBRANT COURAGE so that they too can live out their heart’s desires. My latest iteration in the evolution of my business is emerging to be focused on sales and selling because if we’re not selling we’re not serving!
Thank you for your magic Laura – love the horse!
In peace and prosperity,
A
June 24th, 2012 at 7:14 am
Hi
I loved colouring in and painting by numbers.
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And playing with my dolls and teddies too
An artist/ a wife/ a mother./ a lover
Certainly NOT the life I am living in now. Lonely and in debt:(
June 24th, 2012 at 7:25 am
I love this question.
When I was very young I would answer that I was going to be an artist when I grew up. Then as I became somewhat older (junior high and teens) I changed my answer to ‘a teacher’. I did get my teaching degree, and taught elementary school (kindergarten) for four years. I liked it… but I LOVED creating the bulletin boards and artistic visual aids for students who needed more help with things. That ‘passion’ grew and I left teaching and became a full-time freelance calligrapher/artist, loving it. Now that we have moved to Cape Cod I have fallen In LOVE with creating on sea stones. It is my PASSION and my JOY!! And…in the past few months I have been having great fun creating my etsy shop and sharing them there. (along with some pretty cool ‘Gypsy Journals’ that are such fun to create!) It is really wonderful to be able to continue to ‘move in the direction of my dreams’ at the age of 59.
With Love and Light on a gentle sea breeze,
Sandi
June 24th, 2012 at 7:37 am
I want to be a Creative Force for Happy Humanity, Alchemist, Diplomat, and Ambassador for all Creatives and Sense-a-tives. I want to be a HOST for noble guests beyond borders having creational and spiritual meetings for the elevation and entertainment of events, environments and enchanted experience. I love to create & point out BEAUTY and have a great time filled with fun, love, and laughing wealth and precious performance – making that available for others to cell-ebrate the Spirit of Life with me.
Your horse inspiration brought back alive my deep desire to ”be one with the mustang again” (literally and metaphorically) as a fearless skilled spirited rider and iconic leader.
Can’t wait to see what you will create bare back, Joan of Arc. Make sure to watch ”Spirit” again, too
(I flinched most, when they cut the horses tail off… which has a parallel to when they cut my own hair off! It’s that kind of pure power and freedom that I want to bring back and reawaken in others, when I grow up, so we all can RUN FREE again 
Thank you, Laura (and Kevin) for your ongoing magic and inspiration,
with a happy grateful heart,
Tanya
June 24th, 2012 at 7:40 am
Ha, WONDERFUL question, Laura – thank you!
Explorer. Hands down.
June 24th, 2012 at 7:53 am
I loved…
* Being creative ~ writing stories, dreaming, creating visions for a better future, drawing, painting
* Designing beautiful and visionary clothes for women
* Exploring nature and “mystery” (or, at least, what was “mystery” back then. Now it’s a part of my daily life
* Organizing and creating practical systems
* Reading + writing (self development)
~ We don’t really have to grow ‘up’, after all. Our soul is already there…
June 24th, 2012 at 8:02 am
When I was little I dreamed about building things. I would build a spaceship and travel to other worlds. I would live to be hundreds of years old while still young. I would grow beautiful hanging gardens, orchards, and living spaces on mountains, in valleys, near oceans, and close to desserts… These were all things i dreamed about doing when I grew up.
June 24th, 2012 at 8:05 am
I clearly remember sitting on my bed as a child making a drawing of how my farm would look when I grew up. I would be an artist and a writer and live peacefully with animals. Today I am 62, have a small farm and am trying to figure out how to sustain/keep it with art/writing. I also have a mostly white Medicine Hat paint mare named Myra whom I ride bareback, her pasture pal Annie, two donkeys, a llama, 6 dogs and 2 cats. I have a fun photo of the Ladies (mares) and wish I could figure out how to download it. If my best life of art and words among these peaceful souls can be realized, all I’ve struggled for would be so worth it.
June 24th, 2012 at 8:44 am
Thank you for asking this. I always wanted to heal the world. I thought that’s what I’m supposed to do. And then I started to dream of being an actress to create worlds and to touch people with this worlds. Thats what I did but I had to accept that my love for acting doesn’t mean that I’m supposed to lived an actresses life because the business made me really ill. So I had to find another way…
Now I guess I’mback on the track- by taking step by step and following my heart. I’m working with the angels and help people to reconnect with our heavenly friends and am back in school for becoming a professional life-coach. Actually I don’t know where this road is leading to but I’m happy and trust my guidance to fulfill my plan
Thank you for being such an inspiration
Love from Switzerland
Priska
June 24th, 2012 at 8:48 am
I was 9 when I discovered the typewriter. I would write stories based on my dreams. I continue to write fiction, and I continue to record my dreams. I love storytelling. And I’ve always dreamed of being recognized as the good one I am.
June 24th, 2012 at 8:54 am
I remember loving being with my mom when she shopped for fabrics and patterns to make our clothes, also spent hours coloring in coloring books, then creating our own “wallpaper books” similar to what we saw my Aunt spending hours looking through to find her new home’s decor, then really enjoying my time with my brother’s mentally and physically handicapped Sunday School class as their “teacher.”
Now I find that I’m drawn to youth development programs involving arts as the vehicles to teach leadership, citizenship and employment skills! AND, that opportunity may be happening to create the first neighborhood Center this fall!
June 24th, 2012 at 9:49 am
Hi Laura! You always inspire me soooo much!!! When I was a child I wanted to create and perform in magical shows/circuses. I wanted to do it outside in nature and have my life be about collaborating with other artists and making magic. I also wanted an adventure magic store where I could sell handmade magic : ) My best friend Carol Lynne and I used to have a “store” in her jungle gym and we also we put on “bike shows” and performances in her attic. Today I bringing the dream alive in Central Park, I am taking a risk (eeeek it’s scary!!)! I am heading there to do some living art, as a teh LOVE Fortune Teller. I have roses on my wrists and I am handing out love poems. I can’t wait to see your new video!!!
June 24th, 2012 at 9:51 am
When I can’t sleep, I fantasize that I am riding horses or elephants…They are both my beloved spirit animals, and I have ridden them both.
I was an artist from an early age, always drawing, painting and creating my visions of beauty including making my own clothes, shoes and hair jewlery etc from age 5…I still do!
My cherished childhood dream was always to be a singer… to connect with people and move them deeply through singing feels magical to me…I feel draped in sensual beauty when I sing or listen to certain songs that feel sacred and sexy to me…
But at 16 around the time I decided to ‘go for it’ my single mom died suddenly and long story short I couldn’t afford singing lessons- I focused on absolute survival.
A song actually came to me already formed as I woke up one morning, a pure gift from my Spirit, called Bring it to the Light:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGl74hwtLRg
I am not sure if singing is my dream anymore……or if a part of me just never fully embraced that dream…
June 24th, 2012 at 9:54 am
When I was younger I wanted to be a star. I loved the attention that acting out gave me. I enjoyed doing impromptu plays and using my imagination in any way I can. I tried to pursue acting as a career, even went to university to study it. In the end I found people in the industry to be so fake, so rude, so un-real, that I decided that being authentic was much more meaningful than playing a role for someone else. I’ve since reconsidered that perhaps I’m meant to be a star in the literal sense: a bright light that can be used to help with navigation, to give you light on a dark night, and a sense of beauty and grandure of the universe.
However, I don’t feel like I am living my dreams, I feel stuck taking jobs to pay the bills, and feel like I have no goals or direction in life. I feel pretty desperate for change right now.
June 24th, 2012 at 10:03 am
When I was nine, I wrote poetry and in the 8th grade, for my “career notebook,” I wrote that I wanted to write and illustrate my own children’s books. Well, I have written and illustrated five poetry books, three of which are verse narratives, the last of which is being reprinted at Outskirts Press, associated with Amazon and all on line bookstores so as to finally get publicity. I’ve written little children’s stories but not had any officially printed and still want to for my grandchildren.
In high school, for a major essay, I wrote on “In Search of Peace of Mind in Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s book Gift from the Sea” and have been on a meditative path since living in Thailand, immersing myself in Buddhism, and later, all wisdom teachings beyond isms, including co-directing a non-profit Global Healing Foundation (www.globalhealingfoundation.org) to harness our love and concern for our planet and all of life. We meditate to remove all causes of violence, war, and abuse, and do affirming/healing/blessing of life that all may live free to evolve and blossom into their true selves and co-create with the Divine the Good, the True and the Beautiful in the world. Just like YOU,Laura! Thank you for all you do!
June 24th, 2012 at 10:34 am
Well, when I was a child I wanted to be a marine biologist, or a lawyer. I had dreams of working with Jacques Cousteau on his boat Calypso. Now I’m not so sure. I tend to get seasick VERY easily!
June 24th, 2012 at 11:10 am
When I was little I wanted to be a Veterinarian. I loved animals so much and I loved making them “feel better” and be healthy. Well…I didn’t become a Vet but I did get my nursing degree. Now I work with Quantum Level Energy frequencies to help people and animals clear, balance and expand their energy field and reconnect to their True Essence and I am loving every minute of it! I also wanted to be a Jockey as I have always loved horses and the freedom, power, adventure and connection seemed exhilarating to me
I get that same feeling from working with the QLF’s!
Enjoy your lessons! Looking forward to your photoshoot!!!
June 24th, 2012 at 11:16 am
Great question Laura, and very inspiring video. I’m also going to be learning to ride a horse in about 2 weeks. Can’t wait! When I was a kid, I had similar visions to you – I wanted to create beautiful things and go on magical journeys. I also remember seeing things and potential in people and always wanted to tell them what I saw. (Example, someone who was graceful I would picture them being an enchanted dancer of some sort) I look forward to your photos and keep being the incredible, shiny and sparkly leader that you are.
June 24th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
One of my favorite blog posts you have done. Look forward to seeing your photoshoot.
June 24th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Amethyst, that is so fascinating that you dreamed of being a heart surgeon and now you do energetic surgery! You are a shaman of the wisest kind!
June 24th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Beautiful Shakaya!
I see you speaking your message of exquisite beauty and iconic femininity with women around the world…. it is like singing in a nü paradigm kind of way!
June 24th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
Childhood dreaming.. !! Laura your white horse triggered a few memories for me.
When I was I child, I would always sing to the radio.. An empty room with hard wood floors was a temptation one couldn’t resist. With the sound bouncing around the room giving nice natural echo effect making that little voice larger then life.. LOL .. Do Re Mi ……..
I’m gonna teach you how to sing it out – Come on, come on, come on – Let me tell you what it’s all about – Reading, writing, arithmetic – Are the branches of the learning tree – But without the roots of love everyday girl – Your education ain’t complete . LOL.
I remember Back in the day that song : A B C – It’s easy as, 1 2 3 – As simple as, do re mi – A B C, 1 2 3 – Baby, you and me girl. I would belt it out , Good or Bad and thinking Michael Jackson was the same age as me , and why can’t I sing like that.. Man did it make me try harder. Then only to find out they lied about his age years latter..
Well years latter, at age 17, I wrote a song about the first Professional band I was in, called Black Horse.. It was a story about the rise and full of the band, and all the excitement of the ride, the freedom.. A Freedom Sense of Wild .. I used a Wild Black Horse as the vehicle representing the band and my bare back ride on it through a open field, telling the story.. I just finished the lyrics when the lead guitarist of that band came to visit.. He wanted to show me some acoustic guitar work he just wrote, & I the lyrics ,, Totally unplanned event , but the two melded together and a demo was written and recorded.. I have a funny feeling it would be perfect for your white horse journey Laura.
Cheeky Cheers
Gerald
June 24th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Wow! It is amazing to hear such vivid dreams from Sandi, Scout, Joel,Angela, Gerald, Jill, Leigh, Clare, Bobbi, Alyson, Deborah, Clarity, Tanya and Lana.
You may wish to journal about your childhood dreams and see how they want to manifest in your life today.
June 24th, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Hi Priska, Trust is definitely a key ingredient on the path to realizing your dreams!
June 24th, 2012 at 5:16 pm
I wanted to be dancer and I have become one! I still take classes 3 times a week and I also teach people how to dance and choreograph musicals. I remember when I was young, listening to the radio in my parents car and imagining teaching people how to dance. I didn’t imagine being on stage, I imagined directing people.
June 24th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
I want to own my own time. I want to be a successful, full-time artist. I want to steward a large area of beautiful land providing sanctuary to animals, where we grow most of our own food. I want to be FREE (of all worldly constraints and self-created limitations) to live a carefree life.
June 24th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
I always played teacher…my mom was one and I idolized her. Nowadays I’m a sex educator…not quite working with kids but wonderful, teaching work nontheless.
June 24th, 2012 at 6:06 pm
I loved making and doing things with my hands – I drew and painted, learned to play musical instruments and always have loved singing. I learned to make my own clothes, learned to paint furniture and walls and trim. Though I studied art in college, I started dancing my last semester and my visual art piece became kinetic – I designed costumes for movement. Dancing led to teaching and learning bodywork, and now I’m learning about video.
And I loved to read. I remember loving stories with children having adventures out in nature – roughing it, or going places in boats, things like that.I still read, but not as much – I started writing poetry in high school, emphasizing the layout of words on the page; at one point I discovered reading aloud, and my emphasis changed to cadence and sound. I wrote a book about playing music and dancing at the same time, and now dream of supporting it with video.
I still sew, I still sing and dance and play music, and I live in a beautiful place on the edge of wilderness. Now, I dream of creating teaching videos, and beautiful video art using poetry and nature and music.
I’m so glad you asked this question, because something just occurred to me: What if I could make beautiful teaching videos using poetry, nature and music?? Not separate dreams, but one vision…wow! Thanks for the question that brought me here!!!
June 24th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Yes Jenna!
You definitely can incorporate your dream into your teaching videos.
Have fun!
June 24th, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Wow I resonate with sooo many of these responses. Treesa, I love your phrase “I want to own my own time”, that is something I’ve always wanted and am making happen at last, and I also want some land to provide sanctuary to animals.
Jill, I wanted to be a vet too, still do – but I would be in tears all the time! Even taking my cats to the vet makes me anxious, I guess it’s not meant to be
Leigh, I wanted to live on that boat Calypso, I would play that John Denver song over and over while I imagined being there lol
Clare, Gift from the Sea is one of my most treasured books and I recently stayed in a cottage by the water which I imagined was very similar to where she was.
Clarity, your life sounds like my ongoing dream since childhood – would love to see photos of your girls.
Karen, I could also describe myself as lonely and in debt when I think about it, but I am and hopefully will be so many other things as well – as I’m sure you are too. And I also love my teddies!
Laura, I am so proud of you already bareback on this beautiful creature (is this Whisper?), you are doing so well. My father was in the mounted police and I always always wanted to ride horses but as you know, I never got the chance until last year after I did a Soul Art activity which led me there.
I’ve been learning for almost a year now and it’s made me realise – I used to say ‘I can’t do that because I don’t know how’. After the last 12 months, I know this doesn’t make any sense. It’s not a reason to ignore my childhood dreams and I’m now going for them in a big way ♥
June 25th, 2012 at 2:49 am
As a young child, I wanted to be an explorer, and to go on adventures. I wanted to find a treasure map and search for hidden treasures and to become a doctor, a fire fighter, a scientist who studied the ocean and the stars, and a teacher. I also wanted to live in a tree or a fort made out the earth with a fire pit to cook on. I wanted a pet black bear. I wanted to create beautiful drawings of things others had never seen before, of other planets and beings, and to travel. I wanted to have my own secret space to work in and dreamed of building a masterpiece of tiny pieces put together carefully over a long period of time.
June 25th, 2012 at 3:42 am
So wonderful seeing what everyone’s dreams were… and how so dreams are beginning to come true.
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When I was a child, I wanted to be an artist. I loved drawing/painting, making picture and creating with my hands. I also loved books/reading and would sometimes wish to be a writer. During my late teens/early 20′s an accident and health issues after that derailed some of those dreams taking shape in the ways I imaged. Now I am at a point where both creating art and writing aver very much present in my life and the beginning of a creativity-filled small business. I’m excited! Your site offers much support as I continue this path I’ve begun. Thank you, Laura!
June 25th, 2012 at 4:39 am
When I was a child, a teenager, a young adult and so on, I never new what I wanted to be, besides ME. I’m now finding mout more of what I truly love to do. I just wish I could make a living from it.
June 25th, 2012 at 6:40 am
I was a teacher to 9 different stuffed animals…who all had seperate and unique personalities. I loved creating them and when my friends and family got to know them…they loved them too. Its funny I shared 2 of the characters with my husband who still request these two funny characters to come to life. Sly fox, my daring, risk-taker self, and Andy, my burnt gingerbread man who loved everyone and wanted to eat candy, laugh, and make everyone feel happy. He says they are the angel and devil in me. I like to think of them now as my ego and my spirit.
I also loved creating…books, magical lands, songs, and dance routines. My work allows me to keep creating if I could just get to a place where I felt I could be me 100%. This image I think people expect from a healer…its not me. I want to wear those tall purple boots…HA! You inspire me Laura to just be…I am getting there:)
June 25th, 2012 at 7:48 am
wow! When I asked myself the question, I didn’t get an answer. I know what I like doing but don’t remember having a dream of ‘being’. Maybe….that’s why I’m stuck now???
Thanks again Laura for poking me in the who-I-am spot. I’ll work on the answer to the question. It’s in there somewhere.
June 25th, 2012 at 9:35 am
Oh my gosh Kimberly! I love that you were the teacher to 9 different stuffed animals. You are definitely a born teacher and bringer of wisdom to unique individuals!
June 25th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Hi Michael,
It is wonderful to have awareness about where we may be stuck because then we can focus our consciousness on new questions to open us up.
If you would like to open this area for yourself imagine being a kid and able do to absolutely anything you wanted, what would you choose to do? how would you feel? That is a great place to start.
Have fun!
June 25th, 2012 at 11:43 am
Hi Linda, ‘Being’ yourself is the ultimate path!
June 25th, 2012 at 12:34 pm
Thanks Laura for your question, so good to bring us all back to our core passions.
When I was younger, I loved to write songs, poems, and stories. I loved to sing. I loved to dance. I loved running, which spurred me on further to love learning about health and nutrition, so I then wanted to be a coach. I loved being outside in nature, all the time! Currently, I am doing health coaching (would like to expand my business further), have been writing a memoir these last few months, and writing songs as inspired. I do feel my creative gifts taking a backseat to a conventional job and trying to pay off debt. I continue to build them on the side until I can step out of the conventional work world.
June 25th, 2012 at 1:58 pm
Ha! riding “bare back”… i thought that meant “naked”… awesome! now I realize you meant without a saddle… I see… still very cool. when I was little i dreamed of being an actress.. I think i loved the idea of being on stage and using my imagination to tell stories.
June 25th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
My retirement home is the house I grew up in. I loved paper dolls and really wish there were some designed for re-imagining adult dreams and choices. Actually you’d make a great paper doll for expanding people’s ideas on fashion, creativity, self-expression, etc. Of course, I’d also want a replica of your studio to put together because wow – love it, love it, love it.
June 25th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
What a wonderful question! And how lovely to read all the posts. Very inspiring!
As a child I had a lot of fantasy and created everything I wanted. I used to draw paperdolls (have a complete Scarlett O´Hara collection with all the dresses), made everything from clothes to food and furniture to my dollshouse and to the Barbie dolls. I loved fashion and creating miniature worlds but did never get good grades in Arts at school. However when asked what I wanted to be when I grew up the answer was clear. I wanted to be a missionary and help starving children in Africa.
Until the age of 17 I was so creative that it was like I almost run out of fuel and then stopped completely creating anything and I turned to live another chapter in my life.
During my University years friends complemented me on my beatiful language and thought that I should become a teacher…I myself thought I would become a Diplomat or at least work in the UN…
I ended up being an academic working with adult education and now I´m trying to find my creativity again and just love love love everything that you do Laura!
Warm greetings from
Carina in Finland (the land of the Angry Birds
June 25th, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Every time we visited my grandfather he would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I would always give him five different answers pertaining to my interests at the time. I have always been drawn to visual art and creative problem solving. First I wanted to be an animator for Disney because I loved drawing cartoons and Disney characters. I also used to draw tubular, underground playgrounds and my size barbies before that stuff was even out on the market, so maybe a product designer at heart. I always want to make things better. Then, around junior high I wanted to be an architect. As I grew into a high school student I sought a business based creative field, so I wouldn’t be a starving artist. Even then I had survival/profit motivations. Now after I stint in corporate america…I teach yoga and am studying business to learn all I can and live from my creative center with the hope of sending healing, art, creative energy, and inspiration into the world. However, it is hard to have faith and move from that place of creative inspiration that drives you. Some days it is pretty scary.
June 26th, 2012 at 7:21 am
Hi Alishia,
I still see you doing that, but I get the sense the kind of stories you are telling now about relationships, sexuality, and sensuality.
June 26th, 2012 at 9:46 am
I’ve wanted to be so many things over the years, but always told myself “I can figure it out later”…and then later came and I found myself without any real deep sense of what to follow. I’m still in the process of discovering that but love to sing and paint and love the work I do as a health and wellness coach- by far the most satisfying thing in life, for me, has been connecting with others!
June 26th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Well – I just want to be and continue on with what I am doing – I now have over 130,000 images in my galleries and I never want to stop – retire or do anything but continue on seeing different things and experience different experiences and continue adding these to what I am creating –
Walter Paul Bebirian
June 26th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
I wanted to be magic. I wanted to be an inventor, so I tried to learn how things worked. I considered being a teacher because it was such an important and sacred job – it was incredible to me that all these parents would leave their kids alone in a room with a single grown-up all day for 9 months straight, with very little questioning of what was actually going on. But I knew I was an artist – everything I did was to create, re-create, make things, figure out how to make new things, and make things more beautiful. I am an artist today. Between “inventing” art, teaching, and making things more beautiful, I earn a living in a very magical way.
June 27th, 2012 at 6:55 am
I wanted to be a writer! And still aspire to that
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June 27th, 2012 at 1:11 pm
I loved creating games……think I took after my brother……he always invented new games out of nothing and I also loved doing this with my friends….playing outside and exploring and creating fun times. And to this day I still love creating………
June 29th, 2012 at 6:04 pm
When I was young I loved using my imagination to create fantasy worlds that I played in with my neighbour Eleanor. There was an old fallen tree with branches sticking out that were our horses that we rode to have adventures in far off lands, we drew rabbit burrows in the dirt and used hay bales for hospitals. A beautiful hanging willow tree was our playhouse. We gathered leaves to make soft beds and we made a broom from tree branches to sweep the house. We ran through the bush with our dogs and I wheeled kittens around in my dolls pram. I guess what I loved the most was using my imagination for travelling to far off places. I also loved reading. In my adult life I have travelled to many different countries and much later in life discovered my creative side. I love to mosaic and I occasionally write. Now I’m focused on building a business to help people awaken their creative spirit and heal on a spiritual level to create the life that they desire.
June 30th, 2012 at 3:18 pm
Ladies, I L.O.V.E your comments!!! Thank you!
July 2nd, 2012 at 4:16 pm
When I was a kid I wanted I was drawn to movies about jet fighter pilots and dreamed of flying beautiful silver jets thru the sky. Flight was magic. I was drawn towards the life of a warrior in the sky, probably not your standard audience answer. I flew for the Navy in training and felt the thrill of solo flight but the dream ended shortly thereafter due to my lack of math skills. I then spent the next 35 years wearing the uniform of a police officer and loved helping people, but it was not my passion. When I was a kid I loved building plastic model airplanes and painting them was my first introduction to art. Today I live my passion for flight and love of country thru my aviation art. My son says I’m a train wreck being a warrior and a spiritual/metaphysical teacher and artist. God gives us many directions and talents. I love writing, art and learning and speaking about the mystery of spirit. Thanks Laura for your site, talent, inspiration and challenging questions.
July 4th, 2012 at 9:24 am
When I was a kid, I created pictures, loved writing stories and being in plays; which is incredible, since I don’t like public speaking today. Then, I would take off my glasses and act my heart out, since I couldn’t see their faces, because I was near-sighted and had no worries! LOL! I wanted to be an artist, a writer, an actor and sometimes a teacher. Now, I’m artist, I write on my blog and I teach workshops at times. The only thing I don’t do is act; but I think I’m going to explore that through videos…I’ll see what happens.
When I think about those times, they were the happiest times in my life! I felt loved, gifted and extremely happy. That feeling was amazing!
Thanks Laura for taking me down this wonderful journey, and showing me what being an artist, writer, actor and teacher looks like and being a model for it!
July 8th, 2012 at 11:28 am
When I grow up I’ll know who I am.
I’ll stand on my artfeet and flybounce on infinite green skyroads.
And rest in velvety blue pools with violet hearts.
Then fall unto orangelands with yellow rivers pulsating in threes.
My arthands will grow colorfood to feed any tearsmile.
And then grow some more.
Thank you Laura for your shamanic journey into our minds and hearts. And thank you fellow travellers for your inspiring comments.