Yesterday, listening to the local public radio station, I heard part of an interview with Natalie Goldberg. I was busy doing other things, but I caught a section where she talked about making her creativity part of her practice. Very interesting... I already have her "Writing Down the Bones" ... OH! I just checked. I have "Wild Mind" in my creativity library as well... Yay! Hmmm, I suspect the next few evenings will be quite busy re-reading these.
Anyway, I decided to go to the library to see if any of the available books of hers were directly about creativity as practice, and if I could maybe translate her writing instruction to my wax carving of silver charms. I found two books. One called "Thunder and Lightning", which seems more directly related to questions of writing, and a book called "The Great Failure".
That title grabbed me. I have had some major failings in personal relationships recently, and I was hoping, hoping, hoping that her failure (was this about her failure?) could help me with my own. It did. I read the whole thing in one evening. It also helped open up my perception about the Pema Chodron and Shambhala reading I've been doing.
"We spend our life on a roller coaster with rusty tracks, stuck to highs and lows, riding from one, trying to grab the other."Yes. I need to buy this book now. I think I'll get some Beyonce too... "to the left, to the left"...
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The rowboat is almost complete. I need to refine the shape a little more, carve the oars, and texture it, and then it's off to casting!
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