Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving
As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.
The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.
Anger is meant to be acted on. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points the direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that our anger is sending us.
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention. . . the capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.
Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.
I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.
At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.
As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.