I’ve taken your “Keep Going” and “Please Stay on the path” very much to heart this week and so, so appreciate the encouragement and consistency. I am learning to cultivate it in myself and it’s lovely to have the booster shot of it on the outside too. Thank you.
I needed a bit of time out but am now back, from outer space – well, Namibia, which felt a bit like it, and ready to recommit and enjoy it again.
Working the morning pages again, I am always struck struck by the epiphanies the practice yields, together with working through the tasks.
The current one is that “…it is not true that my chance at being an artist was ruined by becoming a landscaper. I channelled my creative skill into gardening, so perhaps it is a matter of perception. Perhaps it is time to recognise myself as the artist of landscapes now, with plants and rocks and steps and paving stones as my medium. An artist-magician, weaving the elements into an experience for my clients and I to enjoy. Yes! In my art (!), my work is all commissioned (how nice!), yet I have a great deal of freedom with limitations as creative challenges I welcome and enjoy. I love the context of service my art exists in. I love my art being inhabited and used and interacted with and changed by the life that dwells in it. I Love My Living Art. I love that I work hand in hand with Nature whose Divine Interference will keep surprising and teaching me new things.”
I LOVE this. I've always thought of you this way; a landscape artist :) For me, this week's epiphanies have turned out to be a little less joyful and a whole lot more "let's rip out the foundations and see what's underneath".
Fabulous! Inspiring! and just what I needed to read today :-)
I’ve taken your “Keep Going” and “Please Stay on the path” very much to heart this week and so, so appreciate the encouragement and consistency. I am learning to cultivate it in myself and it’s lovely to have the booster shot of it on the outside too. Thank you.
I needed a bit of time out but am now back, from outer space – well, Namibia, which felt a bit like it, and ready to recommit and enjoy it again.
Working the morning pages again, I am always struck struck by the epiphanies the practice yields, together with working through the tasks.
The current one is that “…it is not true that my chance at being an artist was ruined by becoming a landscaper. I channelled my creative skill into gardening, so perhaps it is a matter of perception. Perhaps it is time to recognise myself as the artist of landscapes now, with plants and rocks and steps and paving stones as my medium. An artist-magician, weaving the elements into an experience for my clients and I to enjoy. Yes! In my art (!), my work is all commissioned (how nice!), yet I have a great deal of freedom with limitations as creative challenges I welcome and enjoy. I love the context of service my art exists in. I love my art being inhabited and used and interacted with and changed by the life that dwells in it. I Love My Living Art. I love that I work hand in hand with Nature whose Divine Interference will keep surprising and teaching me new things.”
I LOVE this. I've always thought of you this way; a landscape artist :) For me, this week's epiphanies have turned out to be a little less joyful and a whole lot more "let's rip out the foundations and see what's underneath".
hhhmmm! I'd love to hear more about that.