When Passion and Purpose Collide

I have good news and bad news and depending on your perspective of this whole blog thing, you could go either way on which is the good news and which is the bad news.

Here is the bad news.  I will be gone this coming week (I'm actually already gone) and will most likely not be able to post while gone after tonight.  Tonights post is going to be short as a result of this "being gone" thing.  Or, maybe that's all good news.

Now for the good news.  I will be back.  And, hopefully, with more content. (maybe that's the bad news) 

I mentioned long long ago that I was trying to work on a comic strip.  There have been some technological hurdles.  I could have done it old school, but it takes a lot of time that I didn't really have for doing cartoons.  Then I upgraded some tech and have basically had to relearn how to draw in order to use it.  

It still isn't perfect.  But it's now useable.  I'll be upgrading the art as I go and improving as I post.

I now have a direction that will lead to other directions and I have to say, drawing again is like breathing again when you didn't realized you had stopped.

It's easy to forget the things you are passionate about when you have been devoid of it long enough.  But this past week I was presented with some unexpected inspiration and, just as a joke, I decided to make it into funny art.

And suddenly, I remembered why I loved to draw and how important it is for me to do so.  The process of creation is very intrinsic to my personality and desires.  Those things haven't been a part of my life for a long time.  The exception being, maybe, this blog.

So, while I have some logistics to work out as far as where I will post strips and what they will be called (I'm thinking "Life and Stuff."), I'm very much looking forward to making it happen.  I have the ideas, now to put them to them to paper.  And by "paper", I mean a digital drawing tool that cost more than I'd like anything to cost.

However, I would like to reiterate this point.  Never lose sight of your passion.  Never walk away from it.  Simply find a way to use that passion in your life and make that passion ride with your purpose.  If you can do that, you are hard pressed to fail in the pursuit of joy.

Have a great night and I will see you in two weeks!