Comments on: No Separation

By: wen

wen — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:45:42 +0000

I love the free-formed, many threaded feel of the blog…
And I agree about the time management and schedule stuff. They are tools. And if you don’t need them to enjoy life and be reasonably effective (e.g. your bills get paid, no one is calling the health dept. on you), then who cares! Do what you want when you can, or when you are inspired. Nothing wrong with living a “permeable” life.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:21:25 +0000

I love the diversity of your blog entries. But what I love most is that they come straight from your heart,that you share your thoughts with all of us and that I recognize some of it in my own life and others may recognize other elements and it makes us think or smile. I don’t have a blog nor a website but I visit yours very regularly and it is one of the most inspiring blogs I read on an almost daily basis. (I’m a compartmentalizer myself…) Thanks for sharing so much with us!

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:37:56 +0000

I so feel the melted crayons in the sun experience… thank you for a great post, about things that we all feel, about who we are, how we best represent who we are, and how all of a life melts together into stream of experience and purpose.
I was just having a conversation with my husband (a musician) about time, and wanting more time for what he wants to create and play, and it broadened into a conversation about one’s whole life is a whole life, whether you are doing exactly what you want at any given moment, or not. And sometimes the moments that feel least like your own, turn out to be the strongest fuel for the moments that do feel like your own…
Anyway, loved reading your thoughts, it felt like a continuation of our conversation here at home . . .

By: Popeye

Popeye — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:26:03 +0000

(I kinda like it here)

By: emily lyles

emily lyles — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:34:07 +0000

Hello! I found your page a while ago and have always lurked, but i felt inspired to comment today!! first of all- your art is beautiful! i want to buy everything and wallpaper my house in it! and second of all- i’ve been reading a book by sandra magsamen called “living artfully”. it is an amazing book but it is really about how everything we do in life is a creative outlet. simply breathing is a form of our artful process. this thought really helped me with my constant need to be painting/writing/anything to be creating and helped me step back to see that no matter what i am doing- i can put a piece of myself into it! thank you for your words, your art, yourself! you are such an inspiration to me!
xoxo
eMiLy

By: susannah

susannah — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:39:11 +0000

amen to that. it is the kaleidoscope – as seen through your eyes – that i love to read about when i come to visit your blog. this is the beauty of blogging – how we can share our own take on things, our joys and sorrows, our experiments and explorations. My blog started as a way to chronicle my journey through bereavement and healing, and now i see it changing to focus more on my artistic journey – the next stage in the healing i guess. i read so widely in blogland – food blogs, crafty blogs, art, literature, poetry – it’s all there. I too share that urge to compartmentalise and organise and be ordered in my words (decide what ‘type’ of blog i have), but that wouldn’t reflect how i experience my world. some bits are ordered, most isn’t. just like the blog

By: alex

alex — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:33:24 +0000

wow, its like you took the thoughts right out of my mouth! Could you believe that, I was just thinking so much of what you were saying. I even spent some time narrowing down the categories of my blog (I still have over 16). I want things to be in control I think, because other aspects are not. But I love the snippets of your life. I get to see you how you are, and thats what keeps me coming back to see what is new, time and time again. Art is more then Art. It is life woven in to a visual fabric.

By: Kerstin

Kerstin — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 18:27:57 +0000

I understand that need to compartmentalize so well. I have asked myself similar questions with regards to my blog, but unlike you I don’t feel that there is this invisible web of ‘everything’ that keeps it all together, in your case your being an artist. Perhaps that is why I am struggling with wanting to have a “theme” for my blog, a purpose, because I am still unsure about MY purpose.
The reason I love your blog is because it is diverse yet all connected. I often marvel at how different our lives are, yet I regularly recognize bits of myself in your posts. Mostly, you are an inspiration for an authentic life, something I’ve been struggling with over the last couple of years.
By th way, I love the Stranger piece!