Our Direction

In the long tunnels of time, we stumble, trip and faulter. We strive down wrong paths and open dark doors. We mis-use and abuse relationships along the way, failing to see that damage to another is damage to ourselves.

Welcome to The Hope Stone. This is a blog about creativity; but not in the more commonly thought sense of creating art. Though I am an artist, as is my wife--you'll see samples posted periodically--this blog is not directed toward the creation of artwork, but rather the creation of one's life.

Sometimes, it feels like we're living in a movie or a book. I talk to many people who comment on this in one way or another. "Oh, let me tell you my story," or "I could write a book," they say, but they never do. They are living lives both fantastic (not always positive, but sometimes) and usually without direction, letting it happen to them rather than directing its course. If a movie director or publisher were to look over these life scripts, in many cases, he would toss much of the plot into the river because the script for most says nothing and goes nowhere.

I'm creating this blog to discuss, and hopefully hear comment about, how a person can establish a direction in life, set an image far off on their horizon that will benefit them (and others--because that's required) and reach it.

Hence: The Hope Stone. Sound interesting?