When we finally make peace with ourselves, a new perspective of life opens up. We feel our feet on solid ground, and it's as if nothing can shake us. Even if the Earth quakes, nothing will rattle our foundations.

We spend so much time fighting ourselves, contradicting ourselves, and even ripping ourselves apart, that even the most harmful thing anyone can say to us doesn't even compare to the criticism we inflict upon our own wellbeing.

How can we help others, with a constant war brewing inside? For our true path to open up, our true place in our community, family, and this life, we ultimately must resolve the conflicts that brew within.

This is a constant I have struggled with for many years, and probably many lives. I found myself during the Great Pandemic turning a half century years old, and felt my life had become stagnant. I was going through the forms, but had become comfortably numb.

I had been working on my first mural out in a small town in Colorado, and when I returned the next time I found myself asking myself, why am I not living here. What is holding me back. Nothing.

So I went up to a little overlook that looked down into the valley and the town nestled there and screamed the old cliché, "If I am supposed to be here, give me a sign."

I turned around, and I kid you not, I saw this to Big Horns looking at me. As an Aries, it was literally my sign, and not only that, but they were sitting, at peace, and in that moment, I knew Colorado was to be my new home.

I took a photo of them, and turned it into this painting. Now that I have arrived, I jokingly say that it will take my 5 lives to explore Colorado, and I think I mean it.