I was sitting in a café yesterday with a good friend and we were having an amazing conversation (Most amazing conversations take place in a café, don’t you think?) and my heart was so full of gratitude: for her existence, for our paths crossing, for our developing friendship, and for her support of my creative life.
"It takes awareness and acknowledgement from ourselves to fill our own creative wells to continue in our brave pursuits." This is such essential advice! We creatives have such an active relationship with ourselves, but is it as supportive as the ones we have with fellow artists? Do we pat ourselves on the back as often as we do others? A valuable question! I will take this to heart and set the intention to fill my own creative well on a daily basis through appreciating all my own efforts and accomplishments. Thank you, Loralee!
Thank YOU, Luz. It's always easier for us to do for others, I think, and it's nice when we get those reminders to do for ourselves as well. Much success with those intentions!
Here in Greenwich Village, I never feel as though I am "swimming against a cultural tide for my passions." Most neighbors are in the arts - - actors, Broadway composers, bestselling authors, portraitists, designers, opera tenors, stage managers, dramatists, sculptors. This neighborhood is a cultural crossroads of sorts. I live half a block from Henry James' inspiration for his novel "Washington Square" (1880), a stone's throw from where Edna St. Vincent Millay had her first book published in 1917 "Renascence and Other Poems," on the same block where Maurice Sendak wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are" (1963), and in the same building where Candace Bushnell wrote "Sex in the City." 🗽 New York, New York has wonderful energy. 🗽
"It takes awareness and acknowledgement from ourselves to fill our own creative wells to continue in our brave pursuits." This is such essential advice! We creatives have such an active relationship with ourselves, but is it as supportive as the ones we have with fellow artists? Do we pat ourselves on the back as often as we do others? A valuable question! I will take this to heart and set the intention to fill my own creative well on a daily basis through appreciating all my own efforts and accomplishments. Thank you, Loralee!
Thank YOU, Luz. It's always easier for us to do for others, I think, and it's nice when we get those reminders to do for ourselves as well. Much success with those intentions!
Here in Greenwich Village, I never feel as though I am "swimming against a cultural tide for my passions." Most neighbors are in the arts - - actors, Broadway composers, bestselling authors, portraitists, designers, opera tenors, stage managers, dramatists, sculptors. This neighborhood is a cultural crossroads of sorts. I live half a block from Henry James' inspiration for his novel "Washington Square" (1880), a stone's throw from where Edna St. Vincent Millay had her first book published in 1917 "Renascence and Other Poems," on the same block where Maurice Sendak wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are" (1963), and in the same building where Candace Bushnell wrote "Sex in the City." 🗽 New York, New York has wonderful energy. 🗽
I am so happy that there are others who do not feel that way! You chose well, LindaAnn!