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In December 2003, ater a heart rending visit to Armenia on behalf of CESO and while feeling somwhat useless, I read "Heart Sense" by Paula Reeves. She said that if one had an unfulfilled creative dream of any kind, one should do something a bout it NOW. She motivated me to do just that by registering for painting courses at Cariboo College/Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops in January 2004 for three semesters.

Painting had always been my dream. With occasional spurts of painting and drawing (lots of decoraions in notebooks for whatever school work I was doing) and except for a month or so of daily painting in Ibiza, Spain, in 1964, I had managed to avoid doing that which all my life I had felt I really should do.

The hour and a half drive and four hours of busy class work one day a week were easy. UCC/TRU was lots fun. The fellow students, the work and even the cafeteria were all fun and inspiring. Since then, I have been filling house and studio with canvases, doorskin boards, paints, pastels, easels, etc. It's all starting to overflow but of course has all been well worth it.

I don't kow if her book is still available but the inspiration I found from it has been invluable. I may still have a copy and would be happy (if i can find it) to send it to anyone who might want it.