017 Find Your Peace
Week 17 of 2024 I visited an art festival this weekend and purchased an almost magical piece from Hoover, AL artist, Donna Martin (she doesn’t do social media). She glues little pieces of items from forest onto her canvas and then paints beautiful abstract scenery. Each canvas features a little bird that sits on one of the constructed branches. It reminds me that there is always peace around us. This world that we all survive in will paint a picture of never ending turmoil, wars, beefs, and chaos around us. It is up to us to find those pockets of peace. It is on us to locate and cling to those people and places that fill us with an overwhelming sense of peace. On that day, in that moment, her art gave me that feeling and so I thanked her and purchased one of her works. She thanked me for sharing how her art made me feel and I can only hope that our interaction gave her the feeling of peace that I felt. Be somebody’s moment of peace today.
