Your Creative Midlife
Your Creative Midlife. With host Betsy Bush.
I’m talking to people who are exploring the creative life post-career or as empty nesters: painting, writing, making music, theater, and film making. What about you? Is this the time to write that book? Return to arts you enjoyed as a kid or teen? Curious to try something new?
Here’s the thing: It’s never too late to bring a creative practice into your life. My guests talk about the satisfaction they find as they develop their new skills. They also share the uncertainty and fear they felt when they started and the confidence they gained as they kept at it and their skills developed. Even better: their definition of success is their own. Where do you want to go? Dare to follow your muse.
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Your Creative Midlife
From Medicine to Painting and Finding New Forms of Expression in Retirement, with Bob Veselis
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What do doctors and scientists do in retirement? In this week’s episode, Betsy speaks with Bob Veselis, a former anesthesiologist, about his art practice and how he transitioned from medicine to becoming an artist.
About the guest:
Bob Veselis, a retired anesthesiologist from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, has returned to painting, collage, and piano playing in his retirement. His artistic work has evolved from more traditional, representational painting to a more abstract, intuitive approach, where he starts without a fixed plan and lets the work develop organically. Bob sees his artistic practice as a way to tap into his creativity and find new channels of self-expression, similar to how he found research and problem-solving in his medical work to be a creative outlet.
Resources:
The Failure Of Success Creativity Study, Dr. George Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFD5UdGTOmw&t=70s
Do Schools Kill Creativity? Sir Ken Robinson, TED Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Values: Building a Better World For All by Mark Carney: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61965810-values
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