When I was 17 and moved to the Netherlands for a year, I had a horrible last few hours of my flight over. I felt ill and spent the majority of those hours getting sick in the tiny airport washroom. I had mentally prepared for moving away and not being…
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…
“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.” (unknown) I had submitted 3 stories to a writing competition at the end of…
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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