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artistic goals

Dare to introduce your fear to your wishes. They already know one another and you need them both in order to move on from here.

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You cannot let go of anything if you cannot notice that you are holding it. Admit your ‘weaknesses’ and watch them morph into your greatest strengths. ~Neale Donald Walsch Living with MS, with {mostly} undetermined amounts of energy and focus is my admission; it has become my greatest strength in ways I never could have [...]

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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ~Rainer Maria Rilke What are ways you see things setting themselves into an alignment you didn’t [...]

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Pull me round Push me to the limit Maybe I may bend But I know where I’m not going I will not be broken ♫♫ Bonnie Raitt, I Will Not Be Broken A {not-so} funny thing happened … It was my plan to invest some time in organizing links for this final week of Link [...]

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Email is all about the now. Letters are different, because whatever I write needs to be something that will be relevant a week later to the person to whom I am writing. In some ways it forces me to think about time more because postal mail is slower. “By the time you get this…” It [...]

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{what is living-giving guides us through the white spaces} There was a day last week that felt like a fantasy — emotional light. The weather completely changed from sunny and moderate, to cloudy and cold — and there was the most gorgeous snowfall! Extraordinarily large, wet snowflakes fell from the muted sky like cotton … [...]

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Last month I reviewed {journaled, doodled, pondered} my alter-egos. Along with the situations that require various {other selves} to patrol the front line of my personal-onward. Today it became necessary that I remind myself of the alter-ego to the facet of my personality that prefers straight lines over the squiggly lines for productivity: my rest-self.

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Over time, the life of a productive artist becomes filled with useful conventions and practical methods, so that a string of unfinished pieces continues to appear at the surface … They allow confidence and concentration. They allow not knowing. They allow the automatic and unarticulate to remain so. Once you have found the work you [...]

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To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. ~Henri Cartier-Bresson

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My freelance business is about the number of days I am energized by what I do + providing income for living. Being clear about what we’re doing and why is the first step in doing it better. If you’re not happy about the honest answer to this question, make substantial changes until you are. ~Seth [...]

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