"Why I Like Dead Flies" - that was the title of my application essay to Brown University. When I was 8 years old I decided I wanted to be just like Indiana Jones when I grew up. (Except, a girl, of course). There was only one book available, with color pictures, about Egypt...
Yesterday, I read a blog post by Kris Carr (one of my female heros) about Manifesting Your Desires. She had recently stumbled upon the book E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Energy Experiments That Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality by Pam Grout, at a conference. Kris' summary of the book: "As you know if you’...
In my last post, Steal Like an Artist, I mentioned some of the amazing new ideas that I am learning and processing from reading Austin Kleon 's book. Today I really understood what he means about creating your own (artistic) family tree. Building your collection of influences and inspirations that become your new artistic...
In the past few months, one of my blog readers, Littleviews, has repeatedly (here) suggested (and here) that I read the book Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon. I ordered it and it arrived just as I was running away last week. The little black cover...
#1 - Rocks My absolute favorite thing about this stretch of the coast is the rocks. The colors, sizes, shapes... A beach like this can actually bring on a panic attack from sheer distraction and overwhelm. "Oooo shiny!" For me is also "oooo rocks!" I sit on a boulder and stare...
Summary of the last post: climb up mountain, jump on zip line, new experiences, whooo-hooo!, crash into trees, pick pine needles out of teeth, climb up new mountain. Repeat. I promised to let you know how the date turned out... If you follow the zip-line analogy... here's my journal entry from last night:...
