Today I want to take a little trip in the way-back machine, back to the year I turned 23.
I was teaching at a nursery school in the Berkeley hills that year. I had recently graduated from college, and was flailing about, really unsure what I wanted to do with my life. [Read more…]
The only difference between artists and everyone else is that artists never lost their natural-born entitlement to create. Or if they lost it, they were able to find it again.
The beautiful thing is that we were ALL born with that ability, that entitlement, that love of exploring and creating, and no matter what age you lost it–7, 12, 18, 29–you can reclaim it at any time, at any age.
It’s yours for the taking. All you have to do is [Read more…]
You know those creators who just crank stuff out like they’re breathing it? The ones who say, “I paint/write/make music/build macaroni sculptures because I can’t NOT paint/write/make music/build macaroni sculptures! It’s like air to me — I’d die without it!”?
If you’re NOT that person, this post is for you.
(The rest of you can go on your merry way. I’ll be back soon with another post that is for you, too.)
“Geez, louise, I’m not like that,” you think, [Read more…]
There are so many reasons people cite for why creativity doesn’t hold a bigger place in their lives.
Time is certainly a big one — I don’t know anyone who doesn’t have way too much to do and not enough time to do it in.
Then there’s self-doubt — the gremlin voices that tell you you’re not good enough, you’ll never be good enough, and certainly never as good as your heroes, so why bother? And who do you think you are to even try, anyway?
And then there’s the nagging sense of [Read more…]
