I think, therefore I am. I am learning not to think when unnecessary. I began the discipline 4 years ago while rving. Today, I chose not to think at a meeting I was in. The realtor left to copy a page. I could have spent time thinking about the topics we discussed. But I seized the opportunity to pause, breathe in, blow out, let energy calm down. In those 2 minutes, I was rested. Thinking or resting? You get to choose!
Maybe you reshared this one in a treepeat so forgive me if I’m saying this again but Steven Pressfield got me out of a creative funk… until he didn’t…When the war ethos stopped working. (Thankfully Liz Gilbert was there to catch me.) Anyway, I love that Jordan commented with her tune, such a perfect set of lyrics to listen to this morning after coming home from an art show weekend.
I think we have commented to each other about this before. It's worth talking about it again. I had the same Pressfield to Gilbert journey. Speaking of, I love Liz Gilbert's thing about following your curiosity rather than your passion. I don't always have passion. I'm almost always curious.
Oh man, yes! Especially as an artist-type where you are constantly confronted with the Passion Monster. The Curiosity Monster is much kinder. (Ok, now I feel a Jeff Gill illustration coming our way!)
I've never had cancer, so I wouldn't dream of telling people how to face it. I do know that a quick google will find plenty of people who have had cancer and healthcare professionals who treat it saying that battle is a really unhelpful metaphor for the whole process.
I think a lot about this a lot lately, and try for workarounds. Even our storytelling methods are based around a core of conflict -- time to start imagining the way we move through the world differently.
JOHN CRAIGIE FOREVER. ; ) We love him over here. This is him performing I Am California just blocks from my mom's house -- literally her neighborhood and where I grew up. <3 Love. https://youtu.be/7wldRoZenss?si=1VM7cf-TbVGWSIhZ
I think, therefore I am. I am learning not to think when unnecessary. I began the discipline 4 years ago while rving. Today, I chose not to think at a meeting I was in. The realtor left to copy a page. I could have spent time thinking about the topics we discussed. But I seized the opportunity to pause, breathe in, blow out, let energy calm down. In those 2 minutes, I was rested. Thinking or resting? You get to choose!
Maybe you reshared this one in a treepeat so forgive me if I’m saying this again but Steven Pressfield got me out of a creative funk… until he didn’t…When the war ethos stopped working. (Thankfully Liz Gilbert was there to catch me.) Anyway, I love that Jordan commented with her tune, such a perfect set of lyrics to listen to this morning after coming home from an art show weekend.
I think we have commented to each other about this before. It's worth talking about it again. I had the same Pressfield to Gilbert journey. Speaking of, I love Liz Gilbert's thing about following your curiosity rather than your passion. I don't always have passion. I'm almost always curious.
Oh man, yes! Especially as an artist-type where you are constantly confronted with the Passion Monster. The Curiosity Monster is much kinder. (Ok, now I feel a Jeff Gill illustration coming our way!)
If I do my job right, there will be plenty of monsters this summer! For now, most of my brain is occupied with prepping for a BSL exam
AH!! You got this!! When is the exam?!?
27 June. One more week of serious revision work.
Yooou caaaan doooo iiiit!!
I am curious when people with cancer refer to their healing process as “battling cancer” and what this does to the psyche.
I've never had cancer, so I wouldn't dream of telling people how to face it. I do know that a quick google will find plenty of people who have had cancer and healthcare professionals who treat it saying that battle is a really unhelpful metaphor for the whole process.
I think a lot about this a lot lately, and try for workarounds. Even our storytelling methods are based around a core of conflict -- time to start imagining the way we move through the world differently.
Are you familiar with Walter Wink? His writing about the myth of redemptive violence heavily influenced my thinking. http://old.ekklesia.co.uk/content/cpt/article_060823wink.shtml
JOHN CRAIGIE FOREVER. ; ) We love him over here. This is him performing I Am California just blocks from my mom's house -- literally her neighborhood and where I grew up. <3 Love. https://youtu.be/7wldRoZenss?si=1VM7cf-TbVGWSIhZ
Very nice. He looks like Hugh Jackman's little brother.