Frost on my stairway window.
Been thinking a lot about creativity lately. I have the ideas, but nowhere to implement them right now and no time, it seems.
Thought of my maternal grandmother this morning as I was casting off a hand warmer. I learned to knit in Girl Scouts. My grandmother did not knit until after retirement. Grandma didn't do canning, grow vegetables, or craft. Sometimes I wonder why - did it have to do with growing up on a farm and making everything by hand?
My father, on the other hand, made many things - furniture and candlesticks and designed and taught architecture.
My parents both are creative in their own ways and support and encourage me to be creative and make things. A woman I know has a son who is an Artist and has recently sold some major pieces of work, but she thinks that he should get a job. I, on the other hand, have a job and should get some Art! Thank you, Mom and Dad for supporting my creative side.
Part of creativity is showing up and I need to remember that.
I have been doing the Morning Pages that Julia Cameron suggests in her book The Artist's Way. I've been writing every day first thing in the morning for 3 weeks now and it's making the ideas come - flooding in, actually.
Today I begin to tackle the cleaning up and organization of my studio. It has been neglected for far too long and I need make a nice space for me to work in.
I have two quotes for today and they conflict:
A place for everything and everything in it's place.
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.
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