Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Filling Your Well

I have spent many, many hours over the last 24 working on an ad.  Don't know when I'll be satisfied with the collage of photos I'm putting together, but getting better as I go.  Of course, this is fun for me, even though challenging and frustrating and all those other emotions that come up when one is trying to be creative.  So, I'll have to spend some time "filling my well", as Julia Cameron writes in The Artist's Way.  If you have never read that book, you should.  I'll lend you my copy if you like.  Filling my well can occur from many different activities:  meditation, walking, sleeping and dreaming (especially in the hammock), listening to music, eating chocolate and/or ice cream, traveling, reading romance novels, knitting, sewing, breathing practices, and, of course, yoga asanas.  Sometimes, just sitting in my swing chair on the screen porch.  What fills your well?

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