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Today I Choose to Create...: How to Handle Getting Stood Up
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Tuesday, July 18, 2006. How to Handle Getting Stood Up. Has this ever happened to you? You make a date. You eagerly anticipate the day, maybe buying a special outfit or a new journal, and you are all pumped up to see where this will all lead. How often have we signed a contract in yet another book on creativity, only to never open the book again? What should you do? So, try it on yourself. G...
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Today I Choose to Create...: Take a bad wrong and make it better...
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Wednesday, January 06, 2010. Take a bad wrong and make it better. Stopped by jeep on a snowing evening. Whose jeep this is I think I know. His house is in the village though;. He can not see me standing here. To watch my car fill up with snow. My little car must think it queer. To see my eyes pop wide in fear. Boston drivers take the cake. To park like that and disappear. Using anger to create i...
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Today I Choose to Create...: January 2010
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Wednesday, January 06, 2010. Take a bad wrong and make it better. Stopped by jeep on a snowing evening. Whose jeep this is I think I know. His house is in the village though;. He can not see me standing here. To watch my car fill up with snow. My little car must think it queer. To see my eyes pop wide in fear. Boston drivers take the cake. To park like that and disappear. Using anger to create i...
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Today I Choose to Create...: Dancing Your Art
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Saturday, January 10, 2009. Perhaps it is because I've recently become a Nia white belt. I've begun to see dancing in everything. Today, I was taught by my six-year-old daughter about how to dance a painting. As Schubert played, she started swooning around the room, circling her paintbrush, getting the gesture of the music in her body, and then - swooooosh! I'm dancing my paintbrush! After a whi...
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Today I Choose to Create...: Finding Your Own Party Hat
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Tuesday, May 19, 2009. Finding Your Own Party Hat. Last Valentine's Day, I came up with a CafePress design that reads: ". I love you 365.2425 days a year. OK? 160;I made it in honor of my wonderful, loving engineer husband, who gripes that he doesn't want to be told by some card company. 160;to tell me he loves me. Song that I adore, called ". A Still, Small Voice. New York Post Sunday Magazine.
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Today I Choose to Create...: The Fastest Way to Finish A Project
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Friday, January 09, 2009. The Fastest Way to Finish A Project. The fastest way to get something done on Project A. Is to put a stake in the ground on Project B. 160;By declaring an intent to deliver A. As proof, I offer this humble blog. . Designed and managed the building of a Georgian style entryway. Designed and managed the installation of a 1/2 acre landscape. Got my Nia white belt. I thou...
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Today I Choose to Create...: Celebrity Bunny Bowling
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Wednesday, July 19, 2006. Creativity requires a willingness to be a tad silly. When I find myself mired in a problem I can not solve, I try to give myself a little brain break. Answers to vexing problems usually pop into my head after about ten minutes of this silliness. My favorites:. Keep origami paper and patterns on hand. Make a few paper balloons and blow them up. Pull out a coloring book a...
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Today I Choose to Create...: May 2009
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Tuesday, May 19, 2009. Finding Your Own Party Hat. Last Valentine's Day, I came up with a CafePress design that reads: ". I love you 365.2425 days a year. OK? 160;I made it in honor of my wonderful, loving engineer husband, who gripes that he doesn't want to be told by some card company. 160;to tell me he loves me. Song that I adore, called ". A Still, Small Voice. New York Post Sunday Magazine.
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Today I Choose to Create...: Shuffle poetry
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Wednesday, January 14, 2009. Another 20 minute studio date idea -. Set your iPod to shuffle. Write down the titles of the first ten or twelve songs. Feel free to mix them up, move them around, drop or add words. See if something strikes you. Take that kernel and try to express it in your own medium, your own way. Two examples:. Walkin' West Ave,. At the club -. I will never be the same.
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Today I Choose to Create...: Mount Malarkey: Just Make Stuff.
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Today I Choose to Create. Quick takes on getting more art into your life, as an artist, a patron, and a human. Monday, July 17, 2006. Mount Malarkey: Just Make Stuff. Oh, I've heard all the excellent reasons for not working today. I've created many new ones, too. Malarkey, every last one. If we can get into. The studio, we will get work out of. Doodle with your non-dominant hand. Take snapshots of your work-in-progress. Play one favorite recording. Put your feet up and relax. Drink twelve ounces of water.
