Art Supply House & Custom FramingThese posts were weekly emails and are archived here for any sort of future reference
You must practice being stupid, dumb, unthinking, empty. Then you will be able to DO … Try to do some BAD work – the worst you can think of and see what happens but mainly relax and let everything go to hell – you are not responsible for the world – you are only responsible […]
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.~ Jane Kenyon Isn’t that a great reminder? It’s easy to […]
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.~ Jane Kenyon Over the weekend I stumbled across Emily Dickenson’s […]
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, […]
We don’t choose when we live, we choose how we live. I’m a list maker. I have lists of lists. A friend sent me a photo of their todo list recently. It was gorgeous – little doodles drawn in the margins and nice handwriting. I replied with 4 of mine – various todo lists broken […]
They say we don’t even have to be fully sane, that it actually helps if we’re a bit peculiar. I disagree of course. When I listen to the mayhem on the news each day, I realize that artists must be among the few truly balanced people on earth.~ Richard Schmid It’s certainly hard for us […]
And this too shall pass.~ Abraham Lincoln – which undoubtedly helped him through the depths of all the crises he faced. A podcast I recently listened to spoke about the constancy of uncertainty. A listener commented on how they aren’t able to deal with the uncertainty of the rest of this year. The hosts’ point […]
It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I just […]
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.~ Brenda Ueland I don’t know if you’ve ever read Big Magic: Creative Living Without Fear, but I recommend it. It talks about how creative ideas have a time and an energy of their own. How they will appear to […]
Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it, for a special occasion. Today is special! I have been enjoying the opportunity to test out some new art supplies and have a list of projects to work on. Of course, it’s hard to tear myself away from my little girl, […]