Who Am I?

I was just looking over our trunk show website...the online show runs this weekend and I was checking out how the site is shaping up. One of the artists...Patricia Norman opens her artist statement with the following:

"Who Am I? After 73 years on this planet one would suppose that I would know who I am.I am a lover of beauty, a quester of unusual items, but do I know who I am? I doubt that any one knows who they are or she is. We are constantly evolving into something different."

As I think about her statement, I realize how true that is. We are constantly evolving into something different. I know *I* have been. If you look at the jewelry I make, my evolution is evident. And as I think back on the types of jewelry I used to make, I can see how much I have changed and changed and changed.

I've also changed what I do in life, the people I choose to be around, and environments. One thing I've always loved to do anything with is jewelry. And I've always been a creator. Those things are constant in my evolution. There are very few people (other than family) who remain a fixture in my life. Paula is one of my "longest" friendships...and I think part of that is because most of our communication is online - she doesn't have to be around me personally! LOL

I've worked in offices, doing secretarial work, accounting, and other what I considered "boring" things. I've been a waitress, worked at an entertainment facility (one of my FAVE jobs ever!), I'm a published author, owned a publishing company...I'm a certified past life therapist...I've studied the legal field intensely, studied herbs, metaphysics, and all forms of healing. But I've evolved from all of those into becoming somewhat of a recluse from the world and staying in a warm, comfortable home, making my creations and putting them out there.

I'm a believer...I have faith...I'm a dreamer...I'm a romantic. Those things are constant....they always exist in me. Yes, I still believe in true love...that one day I will have the "relationship of my dreams". Course I might be 73 when I get it, and you know what? I bet who I am will have changed again and again and again by then. No wonder relationships are difficult...I keep changing. Change is invetible...I just wonder, can it be slowed down at all?