A New Beginning

Abstract Flower Painting by Bella Cosa Art - Deana Mattos

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

— Rumi

Welcome and Thank you for joining me again. It has been awhile. I am always creating but not always posting, blogging or sticking to the business side of art.

As you know things change, sometimes daily, weekly, monthly or yearly and sometimes it seems all at once. Family, health, age, circumstances, work. In the last three years much has changed in my life. The littles are growing and are 23, 19, and my baby is 15. Two of my children are now adults. My husband and I now have adult legal custody of our autistic daughter and entered a new phase. She will continue her life adventure living with us.

My husband is no longer working full time in banking and is moving in to working from home. That makes a full house! Winning hand in cards... let's see what it does for Art.

My health changed also. My disc slipped while looking up (in a thrift store, of course) and caused extreme vertigo for days. I then got inflammation that caused Vestibular Neuritis, which in turn became Vestibular neuropathy, causing the balance nerve signals to die in my right ear.

As you can imagine, this has caused many changes in my daily life. These are among the few things that led me here today and inspired me to move forward. I have another art mentor (my mama of course is always number one) and friend who has helped me make my dream come true of having my own website.

So I am official now, "Going Pro". I am doing this just as I turned 50 this last month and this year is our 30th wedding anniversary. This is a great way to start my second half of a century. Don't you think?

Over the years I have learned a thing or two ... maybe, so what I share I hope you will find interesting. Please follow on this new life journey. Life after Fifty! Feel free to comment on what might interest you or you want to know more about. I will be sharing many things from life in Montana to finding my heART as I step forward into my fifties.

So, one more time:

"Hello and Welcome to the heART of Montana and Bella Cosa Art"

--Deana