Artist’s Way

The Journey Ends. The Journey Begins.

by Beth on February 21, 2010

A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. – Paul Gardner Today, we bid goodbye to the work begun at Imbolc, 2009, working our way through The Artist’s Way.  I leave you with some final thoughts. First, as we have admitted by now that we are recovering artists, we are urged [...]

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Final Tasks for Chapter Twelve

by Beth on February 20, 2010

We are now at the end of this journey together on The Artist’s Way. Which is to say, we are now just beginning our own Artist’s Way: living the life of Creator. Here are the last exercises that Julia recommends. I hope you’ll spend some quality time this weekend working through them. Tomorrow, 1. Write [...]

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Escape Velocity

by Beth on February 19, 2010

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide As we come to the end of this journey, we may find ourselves facing a final exam or two. This is what Julia calls The Test. It is as if our most vulnerable [...]

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Do We Have Liftoff?

by Beth on February 18, 2010

The race isn’t over until you cross the finish line. You’ll be surprised at how much can change in the last twenty strides. –Jackie Dugall (Women’s Cross Country champion and award-winning coach) Just as our Tarot card of the week has predicted, we are leaving behind the tenderly placed heart lessons found in the chapters [...]

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Extravagant Play

by Beth on February 17, 2010

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture. – Italo Calvino (Journalist and writer, 1923-1985) The ego trip of pursuing ART, with a capital A is just another trap which is [...]

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Beware of Art

by Beth on February 16, 2010

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair’s breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance…. To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired. – Thoreau (My thanks today to Waverly FitzGerald for this [...]

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Mystery

by Beth on February 12, 2010

What shakes the eye, but the invisible? – Theodore Roethke In this final chapter of The Artist’s Way, as her bon voyage gift to us, Julia offers a bouquet of ideas. When we begin to understand our creativity in terms of it being a sacred conversation between our Divinity and our human selves, she emphasizes [...]

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The Path of Bliss

by Beth on February 11, 2010

Enough words have been exchanged; Now at last let me see some deeds! – Goethe, Faust I Everything that we have been doing – examining our assumptions about abundance, healing our wounds, facing our fears about our place in the Multiverse, the months of hard labor on our archaeological dig to discover our authenticity – [...]

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The Child of the Universe

by Beth on February 10, 2010

Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you. – Marsha Norman (American playwright) While it is true that the real artist’s adventure begins with our being able to admit to our inner dream, it is also true that we can almost instantly react with resistance to it. Julia writes, “This resistance [...]

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The Artists Way – The Final Chapter Begins

by Beth on February 9, 2010

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies. – Erich Fromm First, thanks for your patience while I took a much-needed break over the Imbolc period. I know that I was, in some ways, not as available to you as usual, which may have been a bit [...]

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