Brummet's Conscious Blog

* Today's article was written by :  Galen Garwood, who's art involves painting, filmmaking, writing and photography. He currently lives in Northern Thailand. He invites you to share his thoughts on all aspects of the creative spirit and the human condition, our relationship to one another, to other creatures and to this planet we call home. You can visit him at http://www.galengarwood.com and his blog site at http://www.galengarwood.wordpress.com . Back in the early fifties, at the age of nine, I decided that, unquestionably, I'd become an artist, even though I didn't exactly know what that meant and the only painter I knew was my sweet grandmother. I clumsily professed my certainty to my mother one late afternoon. She smiled and nodded, and carried on with whatever she was doing. I had no idea that decision would reverberate with such polarity between anguish and elation throughout my life. But I've never regretted it. Not once in these sixty-four years. And as fa...