Muller Davis

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As a writer, teacher, and artist, as a father, as a brother - as a human!  - I try to live life as an expression of love and creativity, of goodness and growth.  Everything I do adds up to my art.  Getting out of bed and lacing up my shoes one at a time I consider an artistic act.  Riding my bike, smelling a ponderosa pine, contemplating the joyous ways of my exuberant son - all acts of art as much as painting a picture or writing a poem.  

It is not about pain, as some art is; for me, art is a vehicle through which to express my heart as my head searches for a certain sense of bliss.  Creating art, at its best, produces both an equilibrium and an understanding of the world around me that helps transcend life's conflicts and miscommunications and hardships.  I seek emotional truths.  I attempt to live unhindered by what is expected of me especially if those expectations are obstacles to the truth of my essence.

As I stand here in this moment, I am the masterpiece in the making.  So are you.  We may fail again and again, but it's not exclusively about the goal  - it's the journey.  The beauty is in the trying.  Just because we are doing and creating and breathing and sharing we have already succeeded.  Right?