Today is the beginning of my 'creative recovery'. Last night lying in bed I decided that I wanted to work through "The Artist's Way" again.
I am a Gemini and feel the star sign atributes are very true for me. I love having lots of different projects on the go all at once, love being busy, thrive on a challange, love people and chat and activity. But my flaw is rarely finishing something that I start. I was much worse when I was younger, wanted to be a ballerina, went to the classes for a month. Then I decided I would be a champion majorette, I lasted 2 months. Then I realised that music was my path and started to learn the piano, then the flute.
Thank you Mum for never saying no and encouraging me to try new things and being patient until found what my heart was seeking. And after many clubs and no doubt much money I found an art class run in a local church on Saturday mornings. I had found home.
I do still love to try new things, I still have a list of unfinnished business and feel now is the time to complete some of these tasks/ projects. The Artist's Way being one of them. The programme runs over 10 weeks and each time I get to week 7 or 8 and something else comes along and distracts me, or should I say I distract my self! But I never feel defeated and here I am again at page 1 and I am excited. Julia Cameron is inspiring and I have seen the results for myself, but each time I wander off course.
So this morning I got up an hour earlier and did my 'morning pages', and today I felt lighter not carrying all the stuff around like wet cloths. Although today I didn't physically make anything I feel the morning pages ,all but poetic, were a creation, and I look farward to tomorrow morning.
" It maybe useful for you to think of the morning pages as meditation. It may not be the practice of meditation you are accustomed to. You may, in fact, not be accustomed to meditation at all. These pages may not seem spiritual or even meditive- more negative and materialistic, actually- but they are a valid form of meditation that gives us insight and helps us effect change in our lives." Julia Cameron, page 14, the artist's way, souvenir press ltd, 1994
1 comment:
Wonderful post!
I smiled when I read you were doing the "artist's way" and then smiled again, when you said it wasn't your first time.
I could possibly be up for another round of the book, myself!
I try many new things, so I can relate to the feeling of "unfinished business."
Thanks for adding me to your blogroll!
I'll be back!
Sylvia C.
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