Thank you once again for the candid banter! I am so enjoying the podcast as I read and work alongside (a week behind). Feels like a fun book club - and I agree, I am starting to see fruit. Not looking forward to the possible week 3 emotional stretch you mentioned, but I did have my own encounter with that at the end of week 1, so maybe I can skip the angst this week! 😂
I’m not reading along in the Artist’s Way--only listening to the podcasts and trying to do morning pages when I can. But I just wanted to enthusiastically endorse the library as a great place for an artist’s date. I once had a free afternoon during a conference in LA, and I went to the main public library there, and it was AMAZING. Not only was the building extremely cool, but I was not prepared for the big section of coffee-table art books or the sizable collection of non-English-language books.
I did my morning pages every day, but today and yesterday, they were a bit shorter. I also experienced less brain-drain but am struggling to fill the space left behind.
My artist’s date was an Arcadian Wild concert. (My husband was there, but we didn’t talk the whole time I promise. 😂) I loved watching other, way more seasoned artists perform live.
Very nervous for this week’s reading deprivation situation. I don’t have a job or anything that requires reading, but even so I feel quite nervous at the prospect of not reading for a whole week. I have no conscious memory of not reading for a whole week. Anybody else have deep feelings about this? 😅
As I suspected, I am continuing fine with morning pages as an already-established habit, but haven't had much of a chance to do other things. Last week, I shared others' frustration with Julia Cameron's blithe expectation that you can simply get yourself away from 'crazy-makers' - not always possible, especially if they are your responsibility - and this week I agreed that yes, while it would be nice to be able to act upon anger, that isn't always possible either. This month and next, due to the sibling rota, I have to spend every other weekend with my mother. I am very angry about it, and there is nothing I can do about it, Julia. Moving swiftly on from that...
I did manage to do an at-home 'artist's date' looking at Japanese prints, both in a Bristol museum online 'exhibition' and in a British Museum Youtube video. Some are very striking and beautiful with a real sense of atmosphere. The online medium means I can zoom in and peer at detail. Another advantage of the online galleries is that when you feel you are saturated you can go away and then come back again. When I've made the effort to travel to London to visit an exhibition (and pay!) I feel I HAVE to look at everything, which means I look closely at the first few things and then just glance at the things at the end!
I did the exercise of listing the traits in the people I admire (living and dead) which can basically be boiled down into three C's, Cleverness, Competence and Confidence. Or at least the appearance of them...
Thank you once again for the candid banter! I am so enjoying the podcast as I read and work alongside (a week behind). Feels like a fun book club - and I agree, I am starting to see fruit. Not looking forward to the possible week 3 emotional stretch you mentioned, but I did have my own encounter with that at the end of week 1, so maybe I can skip the angst this week! 😂
I’m not reading along in the Artist’s Way--only listening to the podcasts and trying to do morning pages when I can. But I just wanted to enthusiastically endorse the library as a great place for an artist’s date. I once had a free afternoon during a conference in LA, and I went to the main public library there, and it was AMAZING. Not only was the building extremely cool, but I was not prepared for the big section of coffee-table art books or the sizable collection of non-English-language books.
Happy Sunday!
I did my morning pages every day, but today and yesterday, they were a bit shorter. I also experienced less brain-drain but am struggling to fill the space left behind.
My artist’s date was an Arcadian Wild concert. (My husband was there, but we didn’t talk the whole time I promise. 😂) I loved watching other, way more seasoned artists perform live.
Very nervous for this week’s reading deprivation situation. I don’t have a job or anything that requires reading, but even so I feel quite nervous at the prospect of not reading for a whole week. I have no conscious memory of not reading for a whole week. Anybody else have deep feelings about this? 😅
As I suspected, I am continuing fine with morning pages as an already-established habit, but haven't had much of a chance to do other things. Last week, I shared others' frustration with Julia Cameron's blithe expectation that you can simply get yourself away from 'crazy-makers' - not always possible, especially if they are your responsibility - and this week I agreed that yes, while it would be nice to be able to act upon anger, that isn't always possible either. This month and next, due to the sibling rota, I have to spend every other weekend with my mother. I am very angry about it, and there is nothing I can do about it, Julia. Moving swiftly on from that...
I did manage to do an at-home 'artist's date' looking at Japanese prints, both in a Bristol museum online 'exhibition' and in a British Museum Youtube video. Some are very striking and beautiful with a real sense of atmosphere. The online medium means I can zoom in and peer at detail. Another advantage of the online galleries is that when you feel you are saturated you can go away and then come back again. When I've made the effort to travel to London to visit an exhibition (and pay!) I feel I HAVE to look at everything, which means I look closely at the first few things and then just glance at the things at the end!
I did the exercise of listing the traits in the people I admire (living and dead) which can basically be boiled down into three C's, Cleverness, Competence and Confidence. Or at least the appearance of them...