Today’s post is a wrap-up of a few more things that have been bothering me and the steps I’m taking to make changes. My original post is here; right click to see parts one, two, and three. Thanks for your encouragement and comments on my earlier posts – it’s really helped give me some perspective and help in letting…
Read more Working Back From Discouragement – Being Worthy, Why Blog (#4)
This is part three of a series on how I’m dealing with discouragement right now. This is from a post I did in May and the wonderful comments that my readers left for me. So far, I’ve explored why I need to lower my expectations and not be so perfectionistic, the limits of my time and energy, that trying things and…
Read more Working Back From Discouragement – Overwhelmed and Overdoing It (#3)
My last post started a four part series on how I’m working my way back from a major case of discouragement. My post in early May on being so discouraged is here; part one, which dealt with perfectionism and limitations, is here. Today I’m discussing about how I tried some stuff earlier this year that I…
Read more Working Back From Discouragement – Experimenting, My Job (#2)
In early May, I posted how I was dealing with a major case of discouragement about most everything in my life. Ya’ll gave me some great comments, which I copied into my notebook and added more of my own. I’m still working through execution on them, but here’s what you told me and where I’m at…
Read more Working Back From Discouragement – Perfectionism, Limitations
At some point, every writer wonders if his or her stories are important, and if anyone will ever care about them. . . I told him writing, like Tai Chi, was internal, not external. It is about feeling and honesty, if something wants to come out, it needs to come out. One has to set…
I had fun with my daughter these last few days, but after a late night flight yesterday and working all day today, the best thing I can do to nurture my creativity is go to bed at a decent time. In her blog, The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin writes repeatedly about the importance of enough…
This is the essence of Rembrandt’s advice to Van Hoogstraten: the authentic craft develops naturally from one’s own experience. So, it seems reasonable to suggest that the search should not be for the lost secrets, but for one’s own practice. This is in fact easy, you start making things. At first they might not be…
* Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh * The things you do every day take on a certain beauty, and provide a kind of invisible architecture to daily life. – Gretchen Rubin * * Welcome to my landing page for 31 Days of Nurturing My Creativity.…
Today’s question is – if I had an extra hour in the day, I would: Work on my photography skills Read Clean the house more frequently (it gets way too dirty for my tastes before we clean it again) I would not: Cook more – cooking once or twice a month works just fine for…
Living The Seasons 