Former chief personnel officer for NASA, former assistant ambassador to Mexico, they quit their jobs to follow their bliss. They were surrogate parents, employers, and my first examples a spiritual well being was most important. They gave me confidence that I had done the right thing in leaving a stressful, good paying job to work for them part-time, which allowed me to go to art school, where in the next few months I experienced a way of self-expression that gave me a sense of peace, a feeling of joy, that was not boastful, but borne by an inner Light.