standards

  • Synchronicity

    “A phenomenon where an event in the outside world coincides meaningfully with a psychological state of mind.” Or: “Synchronicity – A Wink from the Universe.” Pictured above is a treasured journal that was given to me as a gift (along with The Artist’s Way). I started using it with the…

  • Thirty!

    “Art? You just do it?”  – Martin Ritt 30 Weeks of Blog posts, 30 weeks of 3 art pieces per week on Instagram.  30 weeks of creativity.  More than half of the year! Looking back on this time, I really enjoyed creating content for regular posts.  I am very proud…

  • 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…

  • Rejection

    “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…

  • 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…