Day 53: Emily 8

(Ed. note: there was no text with this picture but I assume it is a picture of the rare and endangered Emily Floor which has recently had a sighting.  Now to try and catch a picture of it in the wild.)(There won't be a picture of an equally rare Clean Parent Floor - it is a much rarer animal.)

Day 52: Sort of...

I should have blogged this yesterday but I was obsessed with finishing a book.  This book, in fact:

.Chapters.indigo.ca/books/Switch
I'm going to have to read it twice, at least, to begin to really get my head around it's content.  I understand now why some of the changes in the church and in my life aren't working but I haven't yet figured out how to integrate their methods into a positive outcome.  It's in there; I just haven't worked out how I'm going to do it yet.

Day 51: Is that like Area 51?

I've been working on a creativity workshop -- just because.  Someone mentioned to me meditating in front of a fractal generator.  Interesting, I thought.  So I spent part of the day playing with a couple of generators.  The one that worked (Ultra Fractal) is a demo version which you'll see on the video.

Anyway, here are somethings I generated today.  I'm not convinced yet about the software.  But it's a step along the learn-something-new-everyday path.  Apparently the video won't load so you'll just get the stills.





Day 50: What have I done?

I did it.  I bought a Dungeons and Dragons starter kit for Emily and Dan...just when I had gotten rid of the antique stuff we owned because we'd never play it again.  I must be nuts.  Hopefully nuts in a creative way.

Anyone for an adventure?

Day 49: I've been kidnapped by an interesting thought

I've been surfing around more websites and blogs lately.  I'vebeen trying to feed my voracious need for 'input' for my brain without buying more books or magazines.  I'm trying to do this for two reasons; first, expense and second, storage.

I came across this blog today: http://doingitallforaleyna.blogspot.com/   She started this thing called Seven Words, trying to sum up in seven words how she is doing at this moment.

I've spent a while contemplating what I wanted to say.  How's this?  (After looking at it and playing with it, I can't even figure out if it is grammatically correct anymore!)

Trying to stop sabotaging my own success.

Day 48: Let's rock!

I was going through my photos and realized: I take a lot of photos of rocks.

Sleeping Giant Rocks

Cottage Rocks

Peggy's Cove Rocks with Ocean

Maine Rocks with Barnacles

What does this say about me?  I look down a lot?  I feel an affinity to rocks?  I wonder...

Day 47: Back to basics

For various reasons, work and personal, I've developed something of a block, artistically.  I have accomplished little things of late but nothing particularly exciting.  I have been struggling to find something positive to say here.

So, as is my wont, when I get stuck, I return to The Artist's Way.  A book on working through the rough patches of an artistic life.  There are lots of suggestions and exercises in the book.  Basically, I recommend it to you.

My first step is usually to return to journalling.  Somehow, once I get the stuff out of my head, my dilemma comes to the surface.  Part of this comes from being an introvert in a household of six people.  I can't think through the words floating in the air.

Next step?  Talking to my support network.  Which is what I'm going to do now.

I close with a picture of a random work of gourd art.

More on this to follow.