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It’s been several years since I read Julia Cameron’s The
Artist’s Way, A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity. If you’ve read the book
you are familiar with The Artist Date: time that the author encourages you to
set aside each week towards “nurturing your creative consciousness, your inner
artist.” Some of my favorite artist dates I’ve spent at local art galleries
letting myself get lost in the creativity of others. In each brush stroke
or click of the shutter I find motivation,
energy, and inspiration to fuel
my own projects.
Reading is another way that I feed my inner artist and I am starting this week on yet another reading high. I finished Sara Zarr’s How to Save a Life (Amazing!) and Margarita Engle’s The Firefly Letters (Lovely!) I’ve also started Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (too soon to tell, but I’ve heard great things and have high hopes.)
I’m also a big So You Think You Can Dance fan. I just get
lost in the emotion and artistry of so many amazing dancers. And I’ve learned
that the most powerful artists whether they be painters, photographers, writers
or dancers, are the ones who put their whole heart and soul into their work –
something that we can forget to do when we focus too heavily on the
technicalities of our craft.
I missed the first half of this season’s premier episode of
SYTYCD last Thursday because I was at writing group, but I made it home in time
to see this guy, Hampton Williams, who bares his soul and in doing so, he reaches ours. We all
want to be that kind of artist/dancer/writer, don’t we?
