Hello.
It's me.
Creative (writing) me.
I'm back.
Is anyone still reading?
It has been an entire calendar year. Where have I been?
A long hiatus from many things was called to order in January of last year. The ability to creatively 'think with words' flew the coop. My manifestations were more visual and tactile. My being was undergoing a period of intentional growth. My physical self, unsurprisingly, uprooted and re-rooted again. Elsewhere. But this one's gonna take. It feels right.
In the absence of my writing ritual we've begun a new year. 2010. Wow. How some things have evolved.
But to leave my little wordsmith blog hanging in the cobwebbed nooks of cyberspace any longer and dishonor this new year and all its glorious potential would be a travesty. What's more, turns out (against all intention) I've got a resolution. Go ahead and say 'I told you so'. It's actually more a vision for the path lain out before me...and it includes resurrecting this space. So label this my launching point...the public assertion of things to come:
I want to design my day-to-day. I want to feel inspired, become charged by my surroundings, fueled by the joy of operating on my terms. Doesn't life have so much more meaning that way? I want to take little adventures of discovery, see new things, remember old but unique ways of looking, structure my creative times not force them and fill my life with centering, holistic experiences (yoga. dance. reading. and acupuncture!) that I may create ART. Success through art means taking this energized, evolving product of a heightened state of daily living, thinking, being-the ART- and living off it. No, from it. Sharing it with the universe, stimulating thought and conversation, spinning my fuel, my energy into a means of teaching others to find theirs...Success feels like a liquid, flowing, that emanates from me to everything around...that I share, but also which I absorb and with which nourish myself....its circular.
Ironically, I am ever surrounding myself with circles. They emerge in my paintings, I am drawn to their presence in nature, I observe the movement as made by the body a circle. I relish the idea of returning to the place of origin, the start; of coming back to where it started, while still continuing around again in forwards motion....so this vision, it feels like home.
Yes, success for me as an artist is circular: create, share, teach, receive, experience, translate, create, share, teach, receive, experience, translate....and on it goes. And here it begins. Again. With more intention.
