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Recommended reading and listening

I read it and had huge ah HA! moments. The (couples) therapy wasn’t successful but I found it personally successful. Since then, I’ve recommended the book to lots of people over the years, along with a couple others by the same author. Continue reading

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Ah HA! The Job of the Artist

I started reading “No Time to Spare” by Ursula K. LeGuin and what a read it is. A blurb on the back by New York Times Book Reviewer Melissa Febos promised “The pages sparkle with lines that make a reader … Continue reading

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Being An Artist and Why Moms Rock

some of these things I have been figuring out on my own and they’re true! Continue reading

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The artist and still today

In case you need to listen to a more inspirational voice today. I sure do. The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and … Continue reading

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Oh the woes of an artist!

First world artist woes: Getting your CV to fit on two pages! (PS There should be a photo of the first local strawberries of the season here but somehow I managed to eat them instead. Sorry. Not Sorry)

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