In yesterday’s reading, Cameron said that as you empty your mind through writing the Morning Pages, the Logic Brain is hushed and the Artist Brain is allowed to take its place. “We move from logic brain to artist brain and from fast to slow, shallow to deep.” Cameron, The Artist’s Way, pg. 14. Yesterday, I…
Category: Zen
January 2 – Day 2 of #ReadtoWrite
Daily Painting by Carol Marine pgs. 1 – 73 The Spider Weaver by Margaret Musgrove Calabash Cat by James Rumford Kente Cloth Patterns Sheep – A Chapter in Story of the Bible Animals by J.G. Wood pgs. 176-193. Create to Be More Creative – A Zen-Like Thought about the Importance of Getting Things Out Read…
Loss of Intuition Is A Centuries-Old Problem for Both Women and Men
Romanticism is a Cultural Movement that is almost 300 years old. It began with the teachings of Jean Jacques Rousseau in the 1700s. I discovered Romanticism when my 10th-grade English teacher introduced me to William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Blake’s Experience is a state of alienation and emotional exile. I grew up in…
Create to Be More Creative – A Zen-Like Thought about the Importance of Getting Things Out
A year ago, my first picture book was acquired by Doubleday for Young Readers. And while it would seem that this miracle would have opened my floodgates and would have called forth every book that might ever lie deep within myself, the opposite was actually true. Regardless of what I tried to write, a voice…
The Tao Te Ching – The Named & The Nameless: How That Relates to My Art & Writing
For many years, I have thought about the paradox involved with letters of the alphabet and the words that they create. In short, letters, in themselves mean nothing at all. Winnie the Pooh breaks it down for us: “To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.” ― A.A. Milne, The World of Winnie-the-Pooh It…