#4 But what are we even alive for if we don’t do something we believe in

Welcome to blog post #4 for The Insightful Creative.

14 years ago, Taylor Haskins, a jazz trumpeter, and Catherine Ross Haskins, a visual artist, moved from New York City to Westport, N.Y, a pretty town on Lake Champlain, 275 miles north of Manhattan.

Catherine Ross Haskins and Taylor Haskins

3 years ago they bought an abandoned, 11,000 square foot flour mill and have reopened it as The Mill, a center for contemporary visual arts with a chapel-like performance space. Yesterday they were in the New York Times, and here’s a story about this project in the Adirondack Explorer. “We want to help people see how integral arts are to a community,” Taylor says.

Catherine adds, “We could fail, but what are we even alive for if we don’t do something we believe in?”

What are you “alive for?” Have you tried to make it happen in some way?