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A Quiet Revolution
Something has happened and is happening to me. After all the hours and days and weeks and months of illness and suffering and fear and fierce hope and determination and making endless batches of vegetable juice and countless appointments with doctors and healers of...
Rekindling My Creative Schedule: My Secret to Making Time for Art
When students ask me what’s the secret to making time for what they long to do, I always answer first with this: Schedule it! I’m such a huge fan of scheduling regular time for your art or whatever gives your life meaning. When you want to make progress toward your...
Make Your Mark as an Artist!
I’ve come across this term “making marks” quite a few times recently as I’ve been dabbling more in the world of two-dimensional visual art. I’ve told you about my occasional forays this year into illustrated journaling, which has provided a fun and helpful entry point...
Power and Beauty, Connection and Purpose
The Sierra Poetry Festival was spectacular. The power and beauty of this offering blows me away. People pour their hearts and souls openly and with great care and artistry into words, sharing vulnerably their wisdom, their fears and failings, their faith and hope,...
Revisiting Timeless Wisdom in Gerald Jampolsky’s Teach Only Love
When you are confronted with a life-threatening illness as I was suddenly four months ago, it’s natural to reach for spiritual inspiration and timeless wisdom to help make sense of the road ahead. It was in that spirit that I felt drawn to re-read Teach Only Love: The...
What’s Inspiring Me Now 9.15.23
Don and I watched a gorgeous and incredibly moving and inspiring film called Pride. It’s about a small group of gay and lesbian activists in the UK, deciding to support Welsh miners who were on strike. So beautifully acted, scripted, directed. It’s a testament to the...
Training Like a Spiritual Warrior For Your Art
I've been thinking about how artists need to train like warriors. Or like athletes. Or like monks. I was inspired by one of Steven Pressfield’s excellent posts (https://stevenpressfield.com/2021/12/training-turning-pro/). If we want to become the best artists we can...
Making Art Is Inconvenient
Making art is inconvenient. We have to carve out time for it. We have to carve out space for it. We have to spend our hard-earned money on it. We have to rearrange our schedules, ask for time off from work, and beg out of gatherings with friends and family at times....
What’s Inspiring Me Now July 2023
PBS My husband Don and I let go of our Netflix and replaced it with PBS. What a great change that is! We are currently happily (and rather harmlessly) addicted to All Creatures Great and Small, an utterly wonderful series. It’s so refreshing to watch something...
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