allowing vs trying
I am learning and relearning and more deeply experiencing the dance between allowing and striving when I try, I suck. when I allow… (here’s a quick time lapse of a first layer being allowed in a dimly lighted room) Share This:
Tag Archives: creativity
finding things, part 2
there are lost parts of ourselves, that are not really lost– just waiting for us to return to them somehow. I have always been an artist. Sometimes I make art, other times I collect images, experiences, sensory deliciousness, discomfort, witness, and hold it, store it, like medicine in a bag. There is a rhythm to… Read More
finding things
I wrote this two years ago for my other blog, and found it today. Dear self, You may not know it right now, but you are doing important things. I know, it may feel like somehow you got on the wrong bus, or that you are being mistaken for someone else with different skills and different goals… Read More
Painting a new way of being
So, I am taking an intuitive painting e-course by Flora Bowley. The course is officially over, but I am working on week 4 of 5 content, since my time is not wide open. I have painted alone, in the morning, in the evening, with Della and Doug, with Della, with Della next to me, with… Read More
Make it easy
I just painted for the second day in a row. 2 songs worth *therapy* my stuff is all set out for a course I am taking, so it is easy to just do a little– let this be a lesson to me: MAKE IT EASY it does not all have to be all or… Read More
bow wave
there is a moment in conjuring where a blissful AH HA! comes — sometimes quietly, sometimes with a roar, but there is this moment, when ahhhhhhhhh an IDEA, an offering, a theme, a project, emerges from the primordial muck and wow it is so cool and then, facebook and my inbox bring me messages of… Read More
Evolution
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-KtbpJlYpM?rel=0] Evolution is such a funny thing. Sometimes it takes *work* and effort and intention, and sometimes it is as if it is more about momentum. It is about openness. It is about saying, ok, I’m ready. Even if you are not quite 100% ready, or want to have a more complete vision, or… Read More
longing and fear
In a recent coaching conversation with my amazing coach Lorraine, the TRUTH that longing and fear are intimate bedfellows came up, BLAM, like stepping on a hoe. This makes sense, of course, out there (imagine hands waving out in front of me), but as in so many situations, it is hard to see how it… Read More
Imagining things
This today from a blog I loved and lost, and found again. “The term “imagination” in what I take to be its truest sense refers to a mental faculty that some people have used and thought about with the utmost seriousness. The sense of the verb “to imagine” contains the full richness of the verb… Read More
Everyday creativity
Here I am, listening to Miles Davis, trying to suss out a tangle of notes from a client project… If you were to look from the outside, you’d see me hunched (horribly) over my keyboard, tea gone cold in my mug, my brain following paths looking for the ease that indicates the ah ha that… Read More