How are we all doing? How has your week been? I've had a much better week. I have been much kinder to myself - more bubble baths, less inner beat-up. I've also had great fun creating my collage. I was suprised to see how strongly 'home' featured. And I think I'm going to be dying my hair bright platinum blonde - as every single picture of the women I cut out had bright blonde hair. Not quite sure what that says...?
My artist's date was supposed to be with a Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, and his screening of the film Fire Under Snow about his imprisonment in a Chinese Jail. He was speaking in London last night.
But I didn't make it. I ended up in a field in the sunshine today and fell asleep by a river. Not sure if that counts as an artist's date but it did feel a bit Thomas Hardy.
What have you been doing on your artist's dates?
We're on to week 8 now. This is going to be an interesting week - 'filling the form'. I love this exercise as it's fairly close to the Big Leap philosophy of baby steps. "Instead of writing a business plan, just write a few figures on the back of an envelope, I say. Just start, do something, anything, I cry!" Cameron also urges us to do the same. To turn up to the page. I've been writing my Big Peace book for the past 3 months (due in on the 30th) so have definitely had a visceral experience of what that feels like. Just writing a few pages a day and today I checked and suddenly there are 96 pages. Nearly there.
The exercises are lovely too - we're reinventing our childhoods and creating our ideal days - bliss!
Have a lovely week. Keep at the morning pages and let me know how you're doing with your artist's dates.
Have a good week.
Suzy x
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