Yes, I know. This month's 30 Day Challenge is Bravery. I may have to write EPIC FAIL at the end of 30 days or know that there were a few Braver Days and lots of couch time listening to never-ending chiming in right ear. Blah blah blah.
What HAS been continued, though not as real challenge, was to write three pages in a journal every day. Not in one of my "real" journals - filled with real journal stuff and all those Green Bay Packers WINS and rare but heart-breaking losses, not in any of the many sketchbooks, or The Journal of Power and Grace or the Vintage kind of art journal or the real art journal, but the Marvel Heroes Journal. Yes, since January 7, 2012 this hero-y book has been written in every day. Three pages, and today, four. Not always in the morning, as Julia Cameron would suggest, but every day. Once or twice a sketch happened to fill up space, but the pages are mainly filled with words. I didn't cheat by WRITING BIG either. It was to be a discipline rather than a challenge. To see if one could simply Continue Without Stopping. So far so good. Now if I could be Brave every day without stopping, well, wouldn't that be a "Woo Hoo!!" Crawling toward working up to baby steps?
In the front of the book are some quotes from when it was to serve a different purpose.
One by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche: The world does need your help so badly. And so on behalf of this world, I would like to invite you to come and do something about it.
Another, from ZEN MIND, BEGINNER'S MIND: In order not to leave any traces, when you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire... Zen activity is activity which is completely burned out, with nothing remaining but ashes.
Time to keep preparing for the Leonard Baskin & Edward Gorey presentation for this coming Thursday night at The Bikery's Van Gogh Cafe. I will not be at my best and feistiest, but the show must go on. I sure do like good drawers and people who draw well - haha. Got to cheerlead those who used great lines and the occasional color wash to create those wonderful spaces on flat paper for us to explore. And for folks like Mr. Gorey - size didn't matter. Small is good. Baskin? Well, whatever worked.
They were artists who kept at it. Creating books, art, sculptures, theater sets, and prints.
Keep at it.
Keep at it.
Keep at it.
Good Luck!
Sue
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