The Artist's Way Week 1 - "Recovering a Sense of safety"
Respond here with anything you want to share about the introductions or the first chapter of "The Artist's Way."
Some possible topics:
Your Creator/God/good orderly design
artistic recovery
Your censor voice
positive self talk
the questions for this chapter
shadow artist
the mystical experience of creativity
And post your check in on Monday Jan 13th:
How many days did you do your morning pages? How was it?
Did you do your artist date? What did you do? How was it?
Any significant issues with your artistic recover?
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Thank you for the intention of holding space for safety.
I wrote seven out of seven days. Making a beeline for the second chapter, I read ahead, but still adhered to writing all days of the first week.
I went to Shen Yun sleep deprived and saw the actors move like water. Imagine cartwheels with water sleeves. Somebody asked me why I was writing and I said I was screwing myself, and my body language said to go away. Because it was on a weekend, I took an uber and the driver was striking a conversation with me on the way home. Maybe I was grumpy about having interlopers in this escapade, but I had listened to the driver's side gig about his side gig as a DJ anyway.
It felt out of regimen. I procrastinated on accordion playing, because of a projection that I have held onto that artists are escapists of reality. As we know now, procrastination is based on fear. I'm wary of taking in external knowledge from a place of fear. After some brooding, I was happy to tell others that I saw Chinese classical dance. It has rekindled my appreciation of writing Chinese characters in the correct stroke order. Although there is a temptation to call these artists clowns, or to call myself a clown, I made sure to keep my mouth shut. This is one of those blurts. The trickster has destructive energy and the creator does not. Letting go of the expectation of outcome might be for another journal entry.