Be known, not perfect. That's something @jonacuff said. I have a problem with the drive to do things perfectly. It keeps me from doing so many things and I get overwhelmed before I even start because my expectations are so high. I mean, I have lived in my house for 11 years, overflowing with art to hang up and I literally just hung a gallery wall in my living room that I'd been planning for about 5 years, just last week. I want to know how to do it before I do it - if you know me, you know how much I adore reading through the entire direction manual before I use any new appliance or play a board game. But it's silly to think you can know how to do something fully before you've ever gone through the motions. Winter is my studio time. There's something about the lack of light outdoors that inspires me to create. In the past two years I haven't created much - I've been pretty stagnant, but this year is different. I have goals set and I've been diffusing this blend for the past few weeks in my house and in my studio. It smells mostly like cedarwood, sandalwood and spruce which make me feel calm & grounded - I just realized this feeling is how I feel when I go camping. Not all squirrelly, like I need to control an outcome. Honestly, I've never much felt I needed to control much about my art, it's the one place I can let everything go and not worry. Other areas of my life, notsomuch. I am consciously working to practice art more and I hope in turn this feeling will bleed out into my everyday life. And meditating is good for that too. I've got one day under my belt so far, but I'm starting and that's what matters right now.
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