Someone asked me: how did you come to write poetry? I sat stunned for a minute and then answered “I don’t know.” I do know that I did not consciously sit down to write a poem. I sat down to figure things out – I was 13 or so and I had found that I […]
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Reminded
When we think to ourselves, “I have nothing unique to say,” we are thinking with our surface mind. The surface mind is an idiot. It knows nothing. -Steven Pressfield The other day I received a blog post called “Something Unique To Say” by Steven Pressfield, author of ‘The War of Art”. It was a booster […]
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Lingering thoughts from a science class of long ago – potential energy. When scientists talk about energy they are talking about the ability to do work. When the work is being done it is termed kinetic energy. When the work is waiting to be done, it is termed potential energy. I have this very big […]
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I’ve changed my mind-set and I’m on a rigorous path of learning both in my creative life and in my business life. For business I am updating my knowledge in the realm of social media, WordPress and upgrading my Adobe programs to CS5.5 to take advantage of advancements in InDesign, Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Always a […]
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I’ve been incubating but not writing. In the meantime, to get me in a creative zone, I have been prepping new surfaces for mixed media. They are the equivalent of a winter wonderland, white, flat, unbroken and ready for a mark. Fenna, on the other hand, has been writing and writing. She has started her […]
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