day 21::playing in the shallow end

   every child is an artist.  the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.  ~pablo picasso

if you didn’t know already, by now you have probably realized that by nature, i am an introspective person.  i think about my Art.  i ponder the meaning of life.  it’s just who i am.  and i am totally ok with that.

sometimes though, even for me…i get tired of being in my own head so much.  and it’s in those time that i know i need to get out of the deep end and spend sometime in the shallow end of the pool.

this past weekend i had the pleasure of spending a long weekend with my focusing on life sisters in galveston.  it was a photography retreat so of course we took lots of photos.  but mostly it was a chance to spend some time face to face.  a chance to really connect.  linger over our meals.  share a glass of wine and conversation.  laugh hysterically.  play on the beach.

in her book, the artist’s way, julia cameron often writes that our inner artist is a child.  and that it is important for us to treat ourselves as such.  so what could be more childlike than play?

   a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.   ~ecclesiastes 3:4

through play we nurture our creativity.  through play we replenish our creative fuel.

and it has a profound affect on our Art.  i am living proof.

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