The Artist Way

I've been taking an online, self help class through a site called Mondo Beyondo. It is an extension of a few books I read: The Secret, Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting & Focus on the Good Stuff. Each of these is about the power of positive thinking, appreciation for what I have NOW, and achieving my dreams. That is one reason I took this class. I have ADD right now - taking a photo class, drawing class, crocheting, and sewing. I feel I need to focus. I need to concentrate on one or two, so I reach a level beyond being a jack of all trades. Not only that, this reverts back to my older post about discovering my new path and going for it. Graphic Artist keeps popping into my head - but I don't want to be a logo designer. I saw a magazine today called Digital Artist - that is more of what I want to do along with photography. I read something that hit home a few weeks ago - I think it is why I fell in love with scrapbooking- it is because I'm a story teller. I am. I want to tell stories with my photos, I want to tell stories with words, and I want to tell stories with drawings. I'd also like to incorporate them all together.

The other reason for taking this class is I want to find inspiration from within. I don't know if I need to find my focus first & then inspiration will come. From this class I have discovered two other sites - Jamie Rider Studios & Magpie - Girl. I am amazed that there are SO many women like ME, craving creativity; so many women like me who want to be an artist.

While listening to a podcast: Creative Living with Jamie Rider, her guest - Magpie Girl stated what I read in The Artist Way: creating is connecting with our spirituality, our divinity, our faith. God is an artist - he created this beautiful, gorgeous world. I know that is what I crave - to be in touch with my divinity with in - so that it emanates out of me, for my family, for my friends, for the world! This might sound too new age, but I believe God resides in me. The greatest thing I can do is find that trigger that will cause him to no longer be suffocated with in me, but erupt out of me with such force & brilliance that his sheer radiance will be blindingly brilliant and dazzling. I feel that once I find this creative g-spot, that thrills me beyond belief, that this will happen. Maybe I pushed off this desire by not going to the retreat at the Royal Way. Maybe it would have brought me more focus. Maybe I would not be rolling a dice to take the path that I've already traveled. Maybe!

These dreams I want to manifest.