Since I started my blog last year I have been torn between a “work” blog and a taekwondo blog. It was like I needed one for work and one for play. I was always motivated to write about taekwondo, my passion, and always struggling to think up a worthy healing topic for my physical therapy audience. And then today while driving home from a friend’s house my sister and I were talking blogs, and she helped turn on a light bulb for me. I thought of that line from “Karate Kid” where Jackie Chan says to Jayden Smith, “kung fu is in everything we do”. I need to fuse my worlds together, take the passion I have for taekwondo, the healing journey I have taken in my career, and every moment in between and write.
The creativity I want to foster in my blog is best cultivated by combining work and play, all of life. Taekwondo is a way of life and I live its tenets in all of my daily moments. My passion for taekwondo and for writing about it lives in the fact that is is in all places in my life and that it is a way of healing. (and I chuckle to myself as I rub my nose that got smacked in sparring yesterday). Yes it is a way of healing.
So today is the birth of my blog, transformed into more of “me” who is a healer, a martial artist, a mom, a writer, a wife, and a horsewoman, among other things.
I hope that you will come into this blog and play a while, share your passions, and make your work your play.
For more awesome thoughts on life and art, please visit www.alissasart.com and say hi to my sister for me. I am lucky to have a sister to ponder, celebrate, and live my art with.
This is a cow that stared at me as I drove by today on my way to my friend’s farm. A farm that has been a rich part of my life over the last several months, teaching me about life, death, and love.
