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Find your passion

Aging can be a revelation. All the truths we ran from, the wisdom we didn’t have time for, catches up with us — if we let it.

By Carolyn Ellis May 26, 2026 3 min read
Find your passion

Aging can be a revelation. All the truths we ran from, the wisdom we didn’t have time for, catches up with us — if we let it.

I stumbled upon abstract painting in late 2011, when I was 61. I still had three children living at home, but the youngest was 15. Suddenly I had some time to myself, so I thought, Why not try something new?

Out of nowhere and with no art background at all, I…

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