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I should really get my shit together.

I’m thinking of changing/eliminating my complex “productivity” system with something simpler.

Such as “Write it down so I don’t forget it. Then do it as soon as I can.”

I don’t need more software. I need more ideas and the energy to act on them.

Establishing a creative practice is our most valuable and urgent task – as important to our well-being as fitness or nutrition. 

Chase Jarvis

Having an issue changing ribbon on the typewriter today. Frustrating and how the heck did the writers of the past use this so frequently?

Finally getting around to creating that photo journal of my daughter. It has only taken fourteen years.

Side note: It is easier than I thought now that Apple Pages allows us to make photo books. I think I’ll send to the printer as well as a digital .pdf.

Just picked up a couple of art supplies to start creating in analog as opposed to digital all the time. I have this need for a tactile experience. I am lousy and impatient but somehow feel the need to experience this. Oh, and the smell of wood and graphite when I open that tin is amazing.

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly… Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them…throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you…trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly…on tiptoes and no luggage…completely unencumbered.”

– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

In our limited lifetime, what do we want to see desire to see, become and create?

Blog like no one’s reading, because chances are they won’t be.

And that is all right. This is for me.

As I think about getting into podcasting mode, there are too many questions and I don’t like the answers. Mostly cost to host. This is a hobby, so free or included features would be ideal. I’m left with my familiar question – where do I host it? For now it looks like simple audio posts right here on the website.

I give permission to call myself that. And because I am an artist, I am free to create whatever I want.

Say it with me: I am an artist. I don’t need art supplies, lots of cash, a mind other than the one I currently have, skills other than those I already posses, or a network of influential contacts. I can experience the world thoughtfully and make things to put into it. I am an artist. You don’t need anything other than a will to make, and-perhaps- a prompt.

Sarah Urist Green