Beginnings
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…
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Possibility
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…
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Solitude
“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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Art Critiquing and Soft Skills
In college while studying Visual Arts, we had critiquing days that the class would sit in a room for up to 8 hours. You could equate the complaining (bragging) about the ‘hard work’ of critiquing art for 8 hours to an academic student complaining (bragging) about staying up all night…
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Virtual Mentor
I was flipping through an old mini notebook I have. Back in 2014, I became interested in twitter and what I could learn from it by following certain entrepreneurs or individuals (I have mentioned this before, here). I wanted to follow people I could learn from or had relevance to…