Remembering my center

Sometimes I wonder if I am, in fact, one of the densest people alive. Really and truly. But maybe this is just the lesson I need to learn right now. Again and again, if I don’t do anything creative for longer than 3 days, I’m seriously cranky. The sad...

Tempting the artist

So I thought that I was officially over the whole gallery fiasco. But then yesterday I woke up feeling thoroughly discouraged and crappy all over again. I’d been trying to get back on the creativity horse and doing little drawings. I had all these plans about...

Dancing my way back to art

I’m dancing again.Very few people know that when I was younger, I used to dance all the time – I was a classically trained ballet dancer and I loved it. But then I got sick, and I had to let that passion go. I thought that door had closed forever. If...

Damage control

I started painting this morning and 40 minutes in, realized I’d made a real mess of things. Sometimes it happens. You get bogged down in the details, and you lose sight of your greater vision.Whenever this happens, I sit down and brainstorm what I can do to save...

Nourishment for the soul

In my current extremely burnt out state, I’ve been contemplating ways to prevent ending up here again, which brought me to ask myself the question – what nourishes my soul?What makes me feel alive? Happy? Exuberant? What gets me really excited about life?...