Savoring the Good Life

I didn't know it at the moment, when I was making this painting, but the character that would come to visit me through this painting I ended up calling "Savoring the Good Life." She reminds me to stop and pay attention, to have a grateful heart, to practice gratitude.

Often we over focus on what is not working. Which is usually a small area compare to the whole picture. And we take for granted all the things that are working. It's like we live in a bubble of modernity and comfort, and we don't notice it. We only notice the small things that are not working in that bubble. So this character is coming to tell me to Notice all the good things in my life: access to the internet, to be grateful for electricity and water. So many things! All the people and animals that nurture you, us. That nurture me! So, this lady reminds me to be awake to all the details that form The Good Life. And to savor them, taste them, appreciate them, and be grateful for them. To look at them with wide open eyes.

“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” Socrates

With care and respect,
Lorena Fernandez, Ph.D.