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You know that saying, you never know what you miss until it's gone (or something like that -- I'm sure I just butchered it)?

Well, I want to change it up a bit to you never know what you miss until you get back into it. When it's gone, it's out of sight, out of mind. How can you miss something you've completely forgotten about? Think about a random song that you loved eons ago that you haven't heard for the longest time and suddenly it comes on the radio and you stop what you're doing because OMG I love that song and how could I have forgotten that it exists?!

Sometimes when you've got stuff taking up space in your brain, it becomes inevitable that you may forget about something that you were so used to. This happens with people or with hobbies or whatever.

(EDIT: Okay I just remembered that the saying is you don't know what you've got until it's gone ... I completely butchered it!)

I love to paint, but I never get an opportunity to do it as often as I'd like. Yesterday, a couple of friends and I went to this pottery place where we picked a ceramic piece and got to paint it. I spent four hours working non-stop on painting the cake platter that I chose. And I was completely in my element. I was hunched over it, carefully deciding on the design, on the colours of paints that I would use, painting over any mistakes I made, my shoulders and back killing me and all I could think was, "God, how I missed this."

The platter still has to be fired up and glazed and will be ready for me by next week, but I can't help but think how much I really want to go back and paint something else. And then I think of the empty canvases that I have and how I want to fill those up. It's hard for me to paint at home because I don't have a space where I can get really messy with it. And let's face it, art is messy. It is meant to be messy.

I need to find a studio where I can create and get messy and just be happy and at peace. Because that is how I feel ... so why wouldn't I want to capture that feeling all the time?

Right? Right?