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Sing As Tired As You Are: Creative Rest
being an artist, blog, Brooklyn College, creativity, Do Rest Repeat, Hazel the cat, Jean Hakes, Luna Project, rest
One afternoon many years ago, Jean Hakes, my voice teacher, took a long look at me. I had just arrived at her place for my weekly lesson. I was not doing well ...
Time’s Up: I’m Glad I’m Losing Patience
#becomingunstuck, agriculturist, agriculturists, artist, blog, creative block, creative habit, current events, feminism, foragers, grandmothers, hunter-gatherer, hunter-gatherers, impatience, Luna Project, making art, patience, Strawberry Moon
What’s changed? My tolerance for the discomfort that arises when the reality you are offered isn’t working for your inner wise person ...
Do the Needful: Alternatives to Willpower
#becomingunstuck, blog, creative habit, creative habits, creativity, do the needful, habit, inner bully, inner critic, laziness, lazy, making the time, Resistance, ritual, routine, self-discipline, self-talk, values, willpower
What’s your stance on willpower? Some people credit their success to it. Others, like me, prefer to steer clear of the whole notion ...
How Precise Is Your Mind’s Eye?
aphantasia, blog, continuum, hyperphantasia, imagination, mind's eye, panster, pantsing, plotter, plotting, spectrum
The meditation apps want to me to transport myself to a mountaintop and turn around, taking it all in like Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, and I just go blank ...
Look Back to Learn and Savor
#journalingchangeslives, Awakening Moon, blog, creative habit, creative habits, full moon, gratitude, gratitude practice, habit formation, habit forming, journaling, looking backward, looking backwards, Mercury retrograde, negativity bias, rear view mirror, recap routine, Rick Hanson, springtime, taking in the good
It takes a little extra work to remember, reflect on, and value the good things that happen. Once we make it into a habit, the habit does the heavy lifting ...
