[week 18/52] ecstatic flailing & celebrating progress

“Now I’m not saying that you won’t have many bad days where you feel incompetent and like you are flailing like a crazy person. As Kurt Vonnegut put it so perfectly, “When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.” But at times you will also feel like you are able to leap over tall buildings with great ease if you go directly into that place you spent a lot of time when you were a kid, experimenting and making messes, and playing on the floor.” –Keri Smith

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recovering a sense of safety

One of our chief needs as creative beings is support…. Unfortunately, many artists never receive this critical encouragement [and become] caught between the dream of action and the fear of failure [there] shadow artists are born…. For all shadow artists, life may be a discontented experience, filled with a sense of missed purpose and unfilled promise.

Julia Cameron
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