The image for New Directions
The next several entries in this “Old Country” section of my memoir — the “Old Country” being the story of my life — cover these last fifteen or so years of my life. It has been the part that has gifted me with “New Directions.” Joyous directions. Directions full of curiosity, creativity, and most especially, PURPOSE.
This last segment has been the part that finally took everything from my life, synthesized and transformed it into something that has just blossomed. While I managed to thrive in some fashion through all those earlier years of pain and hard work, these past years have been an absolute joy to me.
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As with all my earlier posts, I have paired the text with photos or paintings that represented those times. So, it is only fitting that for this “New Directions” phase, it has its own painting — a visual expression of what I felt to move beyond so much struggle and emerge into the life I was born to live.
I will share periodic posts in between my regular postings with more photos of the painting’s progress. For today’s post, here is the set of photos showing the beginning stages of the “New Directions” painting. Enjoy.
After the “Old Country” story
Once I complete the Old Country story, I will move on to the last section, where I revisit the questions I had at the beginning. I want to see what answers, insights, and even new questions come up for me. And where I land at the end in terms of finding peace. But for now, the beginning of the “New Directions” painting….
Note: All painting photos below are by the author
Stay tuned for more….
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