inspired.

perhaps one day we’ll find our peace

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career and landed his first movie role at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first major movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first major movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

Life doesn’t fit in a box and neither do we. So we must take to the mountains, seas, and skies to explore new frontiers of not just the physical outset of our lives, but the internal too. We must set fire to our hearts, freeing our burning spirits so that they may rise up in the fiery ashes of discomfort and misplaced contempt.

Our renewed spirits will take to the skies, flourishing in their expanded world - claiming each of the sun’s glorious rays as their own.

In this new world we will continually discover and reinvent ourselves becoming the very best version that we can be; flourishing with every triumph and failure. We will direct our energies to the betterment of ourselves, others, and our world. For we are the hope of the future - and the future begins today.