I grew up on a couple acres at Shawnigan Lake. We could hike from the back of the property, up to the train tracks, which run from Victoria to central island. We would walk up to the tracks when we were kids, and put a penny on the tracks and…
**** June update! Here is the link to the YouTube video! (On YouTube under DevonMcFaddenArt)*** I am interrupting my regularly scheduled weekly blog post to put a call out to former graduates of Frances Kelsey Secondary School. Two of my most favourite people have kids graduating this year. It happens…
My first day of grade 1, I came home crying because I hadn’t learned how to read yet. I was told grade 1 would be the year I could learn how to read a book by myself. Just imagine my surprise when I wasn’t an expert the first day. You…
I was reading in ‘The Artist’s Way’ the section on Recovering a Sense of Possibility. Oddly enough, the author Julia Cameron talks about Solitude in this chapter – which was my blog topic last week. She also relays the importance of solitude for an artist, saying ‘without this period of…
“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” – Picasso. I really connect with this quote because of how I work. I very much like my quiet time. I have stressed in the past and feel guilty if I take some quiet thinking time, as I felt like it meant…
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