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Me Musing .
. . December
30, 2008 . . .
The
last few days I have been checking out some other artists' ideas
for beginning a new project/year/habit. One said she gets up at
5:00
a.m. (yikes!) every morning,
takes a taxi to the gym and works out for a few hours before beginning
her day . . . (and when she says every
morning, she means .
. . every morning). After having read only about 30 pages
in her book I decided she was too much 'no pain, no gain' for me!).
On
to the next few who both had committed to one
year of a new practice . . . the first just beginning
a month ago and the second having just finished the year. I noted
that the one just finishing it wrote things like . . . "only
12 more weeks . . . only 8 more weeks . . . only 3 more weeks .
. ." which
sounded to me like it had become a drudgery waaaaaaaaaaaay back
months before!
So
I dug through some stacks of saved 'good' information and found
Martha Ringer's
'Complete. Done. Finished. The Joy
of Doing, the freedom when done' pdf book file that I had
gotten a few months ago. I like the simplicity of what she says:
"Take an idea you like and do
it consistently for 32 days in a row. If you miss a day, start the
count over at one until you have 32 days of doing a new behavior."
and "Each
day is like a surprise
delivery of the unexpected!"
There
was something in those words that spoke to me and got me started
in 'organizing-sorting-clearing
gear' so things in my sewing room became more 'usable'
(in other words . . . 'findable'!!!!!!!!!!). Within hours I had
re-organized my 4 drawer chest of sewing stuff . . . and that led
me to think about what new 'habit' I'd like to begin.
My
usual morning routine has been: awaken, stay in pj's until I finish
looking at emails, eating breakfast, doing cleaning or whatever,
then bathing and beginning my day!
I
figured, why get cleaned up before
doing all that???
I
decided that my new routine would be: awaken, bathe, eat, 'creative
journal' (which meant a new journal) and then begin the day. Looking
at emails would be better done in the late afternoon as a kind of
'break' from my creative routine.
What
was really interesting
was that the first day I began (which was two days ago), as I luxuriated
in the bath and studied a favorite photograph I have on the wall
of Canyon de Chelly, all of a sudden I saw a face at the bottom
of the two spires!
Favorite photo
from Canyon de Chelly
The
next morning, the face was gone, but the large base part of the
photograph looked like an elephant and this a.m. it changed into
looking like a turtle!
It
seemed like some part of my 'creative mind' had opened wider! I
have always seen faces in trees, rocks, etc., so that part wasn't
new, it was just that they jumped out at me more than usual!
I
had taken a spiral ringed notebook to use as my new 'Creative Journal',
then for some reason this morning I decided that was too boring
and went into the Studio Sewing Room and brought out the wonderful
box I had bought a few months ago at a great little store in Yachats,
Oregon.
I
fell in love with the box as soon as I entered the store and had
brought it home with me; however, it had not quite found its 'place'
or 'use' yet . . . until this morning.
I
decided it
would house my new journal.
Special box
from Toad Hall
I
have reams of paper and cardstock that have just been sitting on
the shelf, so I picked some 11 x 17 paper in orange and cut them
to
8 x 13 size to fit in the box, then numbered them 1 through 32 and
cut a purple sheet to record the changing faces each day of the
Canyon de Chelly photo and one more in yellow-gold that I titled:
'Some things to think about . . .' (more on that tomorrow!)
I
decided that since I had not been journaling for many months that
I had 'temporarily denied myself
access to a deeper part of my Artist-Designer-Creative Self'
. . . and . . . that my 'Creative 32-day Journal pages' would be
much more interesting if I wrapped them in silk ribbon and housed
them in the special box . . . that way . . . "Each
day would be like a surprise
delivery of the unexpected!"
Inside the
box
Since I had already started journaling in the spiral notebook, I
cut out the little I had written and pasted it on to the new orange
pages!
And
. . . tomorrow after I awaken and bathe, I will go into my Studio
Sewing Room and delight in opening the box to find my new Journal
Pages!
The Muse and
Her Box of many mysteries
The
more creative
everyone is
. . .
the better off we all are
as a Society!
Until soon,
Che'usa
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