Normally in a post about fear I think I’d be writing about creative fears: Fear of failure. Fear of success. Fear that makes you resist what you know you want more than anything. Today, however, I’m dealing with a more visceral kind of fear: Fear of dying. That’s at its most extreme, granted. It’s also…
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Weekly Review #23: Balance, backups & changes afoot
So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Here’s the funny thing: I was finding it hard to tap out my thoughts on the keyboard tonight, so I decided to just record them on video. But being me, I couldn’t…
Time Out to Rant About My Damn Cat and Her Nasty Habits
Author’s note: I am not on the Anti-Icky Poo* payroll. I do not get kick-backs. I do not own stock in the company, though perhaps I should. Just sayin’… One of the great pleasures of having a cat is cuddling with it in bed. Thankfully for my cats, there are other pleasures besides this one,…
Video: Spinning Your Wheels & Being Gentle With Yourself
Despite the image above, this post is not about love, or romance, or anything remotely like it. The pic is a gilded section from a ketubah I just completed and shipped off today. After days of high-intensity work to get it and some other client projects done on deadline, for much of today I found…
Four Tips For Achieving Your Goals
If you haven’t guessed by now, your intrepid correspondent can be a bit… obsessive sometimes. To wit: just as soon as I make a public announcement that I’m not yet ready to commit to making a new painting every day, I go ahead and form the private intention to do just that. Sometimes I drive…
Weekly Review #21: Course adjustment, and painting again!
So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? The week started with a podcast interview, ramped up to a singing gig on Thursday (my first with my ukulele!), and wrapped up with art-making, a party filled with music-making, and finally…
Weekly Review #20: Getting back in sync… I hope
So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Theme of the week: Out. Of. Sync. You know that feeling? When you’re kinda off track and just can’t seem to get back on? Yeah, that one. I mean, I suddenly realized…
Weekly Review #19: Figuring out what works for me
So how’m I doing in my quest to re-invent my life, follow my evolving Blisses and create the life I really, really want? Um… Yeah. Weekly Review… Well, it’s now this week, and although I aim to do my review of the week when it’s still kinda last week, that obviously didn’t happen this week….
Happiness vs. Greatness Redux
I had to hit the ground running when I got back from music camp, what with a custom ketubah waiting to be completed (photo below) in and among catching up with general business stuff. Oh, and my sales tax return (still) to be done. (Yes, I know I’m a horrible procrastinator.) Running a business comes…
Never compare yourself to your heroes; look back instead
Last night, as I labored at my drafting table to calligraph an Aramaic text on a ketubah print, I distracted my aching hand by listening to a Third Tribe seminar with Sonia Simone and Johnny B. Truant. It was a fun interview, but one part in particular really stuck with me: The reminder not to…
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