{"id":14458,"date":"2016-01-19T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T20:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=14458"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:25:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T09:25:41","slug":"advice-from-my-80-year-old-self-listen-to-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/advice-from-my-80-year-old-self-listen-to-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self &#8211; Listen to Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artist and curator <a href=\"http:\/\/morebeautifulthanyoucouldeverimagine.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan O\u2019Malley<\/a>, asked a hundred ordinary people between the ages of seven and eighty-eight what advice their 80-year-old selves would give to their present-day selves. Tragically she died suddenly at just 38, a week before her pregnancy due date. The project with its poignant words of wisdom is now published as: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1452139938\/braipick0d-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advice from My 80-Year-Old Self: Real Words of Wisdom from People Ages 7 to 88<\/a>\u00a0which benefits the <a href=\"http:\/\/morebeautifulthanyoucouldeverimagine.com\/memorial-service\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan O\u2019Malley Memorial Fund for the Arts<\/a> supporting emerging artists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14459\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice7.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice7\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice7.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice7-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14460\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice11.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice11\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice11.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice11-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14461\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice13.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice13\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice13.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice13-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14462\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice15.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice15\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice15.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice15-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14463\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice4.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice4\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice4.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice4-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14464\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice1.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice1\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice1.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice1-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14465\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice9.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice9\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice9.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice9-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14466\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice5.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice5\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice5.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice5-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14467\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice6.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice6\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice6.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice6-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14468\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice14.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice14\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice14.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice14-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14469\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice3.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice3\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice3.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice3-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14470\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice10.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice10\" width=\"680\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice10.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice10-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14471\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice12.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice12\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice12.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice12-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14472\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice8.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice8\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice8.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice8-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-14473\" src=\"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice2.jpg\" alt=\"susanomalley_advice2\" width=\"680\" height=\"929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice2.jpg 680w, https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/susanomalley_advice2-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist and curator Susan O\u2019Malley, asked a hundred ordinary people between the ages of seven and eighty-eight what advice their 80-year-old selves would give to their present-day selves. Tragically she died suddenly at just 38, a week before her pregnancy due date. The project with its poignant words of wisdom is now published as: Advice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dispatches-from-the-field"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29102,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14458\/revisions\/29102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}