Program 213 – Creativity and Fear
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Running time: 00:25:39 Size: 24.7 MB
Prize winners: Prizes are on their way… sorry for the delay.
The Artist’s Way online group will start up again in mid-January with an evening group. Keep an eye on the blog or podcast for the dates.
You can find YouTube videos with Julia Cameron (author of The Artist’s Way) and get a little preview. Please check the previous blog entry for what you need to have to do The Artist’s Way.
Here is a link to the Tilton Sisters webinar:
http://enchantedlife.net/sweetspotsalon/autumn-2012-salon-series/tilton-sisters/
Lyric Kinards’s blog, where you can find Joy In Service through the month of December.
Freddy Moran in my inspirational hat:
I hope you enjoy the article: Creativity and Fear.
Here is a link to the TED conference where Elizabeth Gilbert spoke about creative genius.
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Wow Annie, I had no idea that there had been no podcasts because you were sick — I had assumed that you were traveling to visit the grandkids for the holidays and we’d be treated to another series of travel posts when you got back. Glad to hear that you are on the mend!
I loved the references and links as I had been recently making my “To Do” lists for 2012 and Fear, while not overwhelming in my quilt life, still does rear it’s head with certain tasks so I will be keeping all you said in mind as I start the projects for the new year.
Looking forward to listening to this podcast. I’ve been listening to your back episodes having just recently found your blog, etc. and have enjoyed them very much (loved the interviews with Kari Meng and Jo Packham).
Annie – Great podcast and wonderful to hear you back again! I was missing you and am sorry that you’ve been sick. I may enroll in a local class that’s using “The Artist’s Way” to help spark me out of my creative doldrums. Let me know if you are visiting western NC. Best to you and yours.
Annie – I kept logging on to the website and surprise – today you were there! I’m so sorry you were sick. I wondered about the long gap and thought it was either a new grandhchild, a great trip, some new project you couldn’t share, or my own personal excuse – life. I hope you are better and will have a great holiday!!
I have had more than one quilt that I’ve made be called ugly. Recently. It hurts. A lot. So it does happen, not everyone likes everything. Wish everyone could just love everything I did, but the sad truth is that is not possible.
But on the other hand, I don’t want to be the same as everyone else either. And I don’t want my aesthetic to be everyone else’s or vice versa.
What we do with the information is key, it’s easy to let the projects that are deemed ugly to let them go to just put them in the corner. But perhaps this last comment on this last quilt will help me gain a better quilt in the end?
I’ve been noticing on “a well known quilter”‘s facebook page several posts in this past month about design choices that are completely not popular in ‘modern?’ crafts. And there are many times I agree with the definition of ugly (are there words?). But somewhere someone had pushed past the fear & created something. And ultimately was made fun of on someone’s facebook page by several people. This saddens me in thinking about the idea of getting past fear, and just making something hideous anyway. Or who’s to say it’s hideous?? In any event, the behavior is all too common with everyone in today’s society that people are ridiculed for their artistic (or otherwise choices) and people who do not like something someone else does really should just ‘not say anything at all’ if they don’t have anything nice to say.
Thanks for the podcast. I remember the Quilter’s Home article that you wrote. Truth is that the fear is there because it is real, and it does happen that people dislike things that you do. (not you, but people in general). Just had to get that out there.
Not every day will I let the criticism bother me. I once was criticized on how I cooked and eventually it made me better. Took a while, but it got done. And I also remember that the people who criticize the loudest are usually ultra critical of themselves too. Which helps keep the sting of such words at bay sometimes. (sometimes).
Hi Annie
What a great podcast, I could relate to everything you said about fear. Once you get past it and realize that you are doing this for you and you are the only person that matters its makes such a big difference and becomes so much more.
I would love to do the artists way with your group, I have read this book a few times and never seem to get to the end, so I will look forward to starting with you in January.
Thanks for sharing
Sharon
Annie,
I am so glad that you are back and sorry that you have been ill. I hope you are healthy now and ready for the new year!
I’ve had a bad back and going through an unproductive period also, but with the help of modern medicine(taken regularly ) and physical therapy (sorta regularly ) I think I am on the mend.
I loved your article on creativity and fear. I especially deal with it being a relatively new quilter and am always amazed to hear that even the seasoned quilters do as well. I look forward to all your upcoming podcasts and hope to take more classes.
May the New Year bring one blessing after another to you and your family.
Cathie
Hi Annie! Such a nice surprise to see you’ve posted a new podcast; so sorry you haven’t been well. I wish you and your family a wonderful and blessed New Year. Thanks for the great podcast
Annie, this is one of the best podcast episodes I’ve heard recently. Thank you thank you thank you for reminding us that we shouldn’t ever allow our fear to keep us from doing what we love, believe in, and are driven towards.
Tanesha (Crafty Garden Mom podcast and blog)