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Just like Owl herself, this painting is full of mysteries. I thought I was finished with the painting - and posted Owl as finished. But something kept nagging at me. Well, Owl kept nagging at me. Telling me that something didn't quite feel right. After meditating for awhile on the Heart of Owl, I knew it had to have more of a nocturnal feel, so I darkened the background, and that was better. But something about the wording also seemed off, like I had just put the word "color" in there because I couldn't think of another word. When I let my mind relax, and stopped pressuring myself to finish the painting, the word "daylight" popped into my head. I like the word on many levels: being nocturnal, owls do dream in daylight. Many Owls I know are "daydreamers" as well.

In reworking Owl, I realized that I have been putting pressure on myself to finish the series. I set a deadline for myself and so I am trying to meet the deadline. But it is just an arbitrary deadline. Nothing will happen if I finish a day, a week or a month late. But the looming deadline gets under my skin, and my taskmaster left brain pushes for completion. My right brain says "whoa! Slow down and give each painting your undivided attention and let it emerge and evolve in its own time." My right brain is, well, right about this.