Today I was reminded that it has been almost a year since I left Michigan and\u00a0 headed for the southwestern part of the United States.\u00a0 Looking back it has been a glorious time of growth and development and I met a lot of people along the way.\u00a0 I’m glad that I made the move and decided to experience life in a totally different environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I was reminded that it has been almost a year since I left Michigan and\u00a0 headed for the southwestern part of the United States.\u00a0 Looking back it has been a glorious time of growth and development and I met a lot of people along the way.\u00a0 I’m glad that I made the move and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[381,616,614,613,603,102,618,615,359,301,617,108,620,610,113,611,390,388,387,391,386,389,609,385,380,114,384,612,224,619,196,228,383,382,608],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-even-monkeys-fall-out-of-trees","tag-a-time-of-growth-and-development","tag-abstract-painting","tag-african-american-female-abstract-artist","tag-african-american-museum","tag-art-by-marvalisa-coley","tag-arts-league-of-michigan","tag-bell-rock-mountain-sedona-arizona","tag-black-female-abstract-painter","tag-cafepress-commarvalisa","tag-charles-h-wright-museum","tag-colorado-springs-hiking-trails","tag-detroit-artist","tag-detroit-artists-market","tag-detroit-eastern-market-artisan-village","tag-gilda-snowden","tag-james-spearman","tag-just-do-it","tag-leaving-detroit","tag-leaving-michigan","tag-living-the-dream","tag-looking-back","tag-make-the-move","tag-marvalisa-youtube","tag-meeting-people","tag-my-how-time-flies","tag-national-conference-of-artists-michigan-chapter","tag-new-environment","tag-raymond-wells","tag-relocating","tag-sedona-az-hiking-trails","tag-shirley-woodson","tag-southwestern-states","tag-southwestern-united-states","tag-traveling-to-the-southwest","tag-youtube-commarvasart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marvalisa.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}