7 composition books, 1200 pages, 365 days. Today is the one year anniversary of my first date with The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron.
I had told myself so often that I’m left brained, that I don’t have a creative bone in my body that I had started to believe it. I began The Artist’s Way with the goal of completing the 12 week course in order to develop my right brain and to find something creative that I might enjoy and be good at.
Like many of us, I start things and don’t finish them. I give up too quickly. Even when you complete a goal, it’s all about the goal. You set it, start it, complete it, then what?
But I finished and after the 12 weeks I kept writing and writing.
The writing has become something I do, part of me and I am grateful for it.
The writing has brought excitement, creativity, this blog, a garden. It has carried me through joys and sorrows including a stressful senior year and a milestone birthday. It has helped me work thorough more problems than I care to count.
It has made me a better listener (to others and to myself). The ideas and inspiration for almost every blog I’ve written have come while writing these morning pages. I’ve released a great deal of sorrow, anger and fear (still more to go) and there have been so many dots connected and “ah ha” moments.
The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself Of Solitude, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French Renaissance essayist
7 compostition books, 1200 pages, 365 days, 525,600 minutes and still writing. If you haven’t listened to Seasons of Love from Rent for awhile, Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8iTeDl_Wug
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. This life changing book is a 12 week self guided course on awakening or reawakening your creative self. Initially developed for “blocked” artists, this book is a must do for all us left brained folks. www.theartistsway.com
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