Week 16: Compass &Tassels This week i return to an earlier idea i explored about resistance. First a stream writing sparked from the red tassels in this week’s drawing. Tassel, a thin red tassel at the bottom of my curtain trickles in the cool morning breeze, trickles and tickles of sweet fragrant air wake me […]
Week 15: Pink & Orange i’m surprised i keep picking pink and orange to work with. When i was a kid, i didn’t like the color orange except sometimes in nature. i wasn’t too hot on pink either. How we change… Do you ever find yourself drawn to something you used to resist or didn’t
Week 14: Stripe This week i planned to return to an earlier bit of writing i was tussling with, resisting, instead i realized i was still pushing too hard. Midweek, i played with numbers and it was just the thing to bring back the play. i want to bring it back into the writing even
Week 13: Experiments What if i only used red and tones of grey? i really liked how the red candlestand stood out when i first added the color but later as i added more colors, i felt like it lost something. So, i tried going back to grey tones except for the candlestand. It’s not
Week 12: More thoughts from The war of Art Below is a little riff on resistance from having recently read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield i think i am understanding resistance in a new way. The tension created from resistance is actually a gift. Resistance, that place that shows up as a kind
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Week 11 Not so many words this week, catching my breath from some unexpecteds. It’s a rainy day here, noticing the tones, more than the colors, layers of fog, dark mountains, patches of fields as i ride through the countryside to see my brother and back to the dale. So it seemed a good word
Week 10: Slack Back to Who’s Driving and thoughts on a challenging week below but first a stream write: Slack, a loose rope or a flat band, really, a slack line, slightly elastic, buoyant, with bounce yes! Bounce back, that is what slack allows you, to bounce back, up and down, not just down. Up
Week 9:Crow in Disguise i’ve come back to the previous drawing of a Crow that looks like an Eagle, now in a finished state. (there may be some minor changes but i don’t think i’ll post it again) Below a stream write, i hope you enjoy it. Thanks for reading! “Words Escape Me” You would
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Not much changed this week with Who’s Driving, a little color and it is slow going. i am happy however with what’s developing. It was an intensive writing week. My About Lisa page is live though needs a lot more editing. i find writing about myself a challenging endeavor and i know i’m not alone
Week 7 Who is driving? Who is seeing the way ahead? If its you, what are you seeing? What are you driving through? Are you calm, are you frantic, or something in between? Are you reacting or responding? If you’re reacting, you may not be seeing clearly. Reacting as different from responding usually involves at
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