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The Artist’s Way

March 7, 2006

Beginners & Experts

Via Lifehacker, I’ve found a great new blog (as if I could keep up with those I’ve already found): Creating Passionate Users. It was a post there — How to be an expert — that gave me just that little push I needed to jump into the 30 Day Photo Challenge: … the research says… Continue reading

30DayPhoto, The Artist’s Way

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March 5, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength

First, a few links: I found this first one (a Yahoo group) because I got a hit from there; someone in the group linked to my very first post on The Artist’s Way: artistswayplay · The Artist’s Way Online Playgroup. Then I found a Flickr group! How could I have missed this? Flickr: The Artist’s… Continue reading

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abandonment, The Artist’s Way
February 28, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 7: Recovering a Sense of Connection

Last week’s topics included listening, perfectionism, risk, and jealousy. Risk is an interesting one for me. I realized quite young that I was risk aversive; I like comfort, and safety. I recognized that many people settle into a job or a place early on, get comfortable, and never move — physically, intellectually, emotionally, or spiritually… Continue reading

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harp, Jane Hirshfield, listening, Music, photograph, The Artist’s Way
February 26, 2006

Journals & Notebooks

Blue Dog asks: What do you write in? And many, many reply, with photos and thoughts on journaling and writing that are worth sharing outside the Blogging the Artist’s Way list, I think. So I have many links below the cut, and will add more as I find them. This gives me an excuse for… Continue reading

Critters, Memes, The Artist’s Way, Writing

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February 25, 2006

The Artist’s Way ~ Awful Affirmations

Are you fond of this affirmation? TREATING MYSELF LIKE A PRECIOUS OBJECT WILL MAKE ME STRONG Have you, as directed, drawn it out and hung it on your wall? If so, you may want to quit reading this now. Because I detest it, and I am… Continue reading

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Ancestral (Artificial )Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. For me, writing is how I think, and I prefer to do it myself. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

I have changed this from Artificial to Ancestral, after Abi Awomosu @ Substack. This medium was made with human history, human thought. All of it, bright and dark. It is ancestral.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

The Artist’s Way

Beginners & Experts

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 8: Recovering a Sense of Strength

The Artist’s Way ~ Week 7: Recovering a Sense of Connection

Journals & Notebooks

The Artist’s Way ~ Awful Affirmations