Have you ever noticed that, when you share your viewpoint (or your creative work) one negative comment can completely throw you off balance? Even if the response is generally very positive, that one negative comment sticks in your head and you find yourself...
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post about all of the things I had learned from my very first year as a one-person business. As we small business owners are always so hard on ourselves, I thought it might be nice to revisit this process regularly. A...
As a new artist, there are a few pieces of advice that you hear repeated to the point that they become banal and almost something to rebel against. “Do what you love” “Create every day” “Show up and do your work” “You need to work for 10,000 hours...
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” ~ Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot The question was difficult and I didn’t know what to say. I looked up to meet her eyes and the confusion in my face must have led her to believe that I hadn’t...
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson She took a step back and squinted her eyes, the way everyone does when looking at those magic eye pictures. “So…..is it Photoshop or is it real?” I’m never sure how to...
“Maybe the only enemy is that we don’t like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. if we run a hundred miles an hour to the...