I was stressed out and came home everyday only to sit in front of the TV and not do anything. I had a beautiful wife that I overlooked most of the time and completely under appreciated. Aleisha, my wife, was in a similar spot, but she had a creative passion that had no outlet. Stuck in a mundane day to day rut, the outlook looked bleak. What happened? A wake up call! One day she decided that this
was not a life she wanted and set out on a journey. In doing so, I got a slap of reality and too realized that our dreams and goals were being detained on our path through life. Whether from other peoples opinions, our owns fears, someone else's dreams or blackened by the sadness that had consumed us both, we were determined to change right there, right then! Aleisha spent the next few months being a person that had been bottled up for what seemed like a lifetime. Living life in a way that she never had, yet in a strange way familiar. She was bold, confident, sassy, the fire burned in her eyes that I had not seen in a long time. She started to travel again and trail running in the mountains. At this point in time she started weight training and was rather good at it I might add. She took up racquetball as well, learning quickly and showing no mercy, the way it was meant to be. Yes her life after years of hibernation was starting to roll. As for me... I relearned life. Yes I know that sounds crazy, but it's true. I had buried the man that Aleisha fell in love with and married. Plagued by regret, fear, self pity, letting other people influence my life, constant fear of what other people thought and eventual distain that harbored for her. I become someone that everyone would like traveling down the path that they had in mind. In doing so it almost cost me my greatest treasure. The day I got slapped back into reality was the day I realized I was not living my life or dreams and set a new course into my life that had been lost years ago. At this point in time me and Aleisha's courses were very different and I did not know if they would meet again or continue apart. I did not want to lose her but at the same time did not know how to bring her back. So I did some heavy soul searching read a lot of information and began to find the person I was. This was not easy. In a few short weeks I flipped a 180 on my personality, attitude and my view of the things I had. I began my fight for my dreams and my life. I started living for the moments,, got back to the things that we both loved doing together. It was a struggled that we both cried through many times and this is where are paths start to meet once again. We started hiking together in the mountains and in the country. We took drives and cruised the back roads not really caring about when we were going to get to our destination but enjoying the things we got to experience along the way. I started helping out around the house, which was huge for me, started playing racquetball. Ok so that's still competitive between us. In this process I left my job for another hoping that it would be less stress and give me more time with my family. I was wrong and then really wrong when I got laid off. Well, ok so I got the time with my family now. But something happened then that I wasn't ready for all of this in all of it's oddity, started bringing us closer together. We came to rely on each other instead of judge. A good friend of ours decided that she was going to get Aleisha a surprise, one that would have greater impact then I ever imagined. This friend, bought and brought over a whole starting kit for painting, including canvas. This was the creative outlet that Aleisha had been needing. Her ability and talent to put colors together still blows my mind. I tried painting, came out looking like a skit from South Park. With her new found friendship with canvas and getting paint on herself, she was creating the things that she could not put in to words, feeling, passions, the woman I knew came to life, in herself and in my heart! This is really her story in in Paint form so watch closely it changes quickly! After losing my job, I haven't found anything yet job wise, I remembered how much I love teaching music. I am in the process of finding students for guitar and possible bass lessons. I also teach music theory (yeah that's fun). This is what this page is about. This is our journey together! Welcome to STARVING ARTISTS STUDIO!
