I read so you don’t have to… here’s just the good stuff from around the interwebs. We are diving into creativity, platonic friendships, one question to change your life and go check out my IRL friend Marisa. Good stuff, people, good stuff.
Looking to start an art journal? (I totally want to do this, btw.) Have one, but you don’t write in it very often? My Thread of Thought has a great post on adding art journaling to your everyday creative process. “I like art journaling because it allows you to experiment. You can try out different methods and materials to create and not worry about the outcome. It doesn’t matter what you create, write or draw. If you don’t like it, you can cover it up and start again.”
Cheri Bywater has a plea for you to do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month – which is coming up) to become a “real” writer. Her ideas are pretty compelling. Is this the year that you do it? “I dabbled in writing, volunteering for the homeschool newsletter, writing long letters to the grandparents. I even sold a few freelance pieces. Still, I had never said out loud, “I’m a writer.” That seems so audacious. So arrogant. So vulnerable.” – This is so good, people.
I have two “work husbands”, men that I talk to often and enjoy their company. It is all totally platonic and they have great a wife/girlfriend that I love too. I never really think about the “problem” of having platonic friends, but was totally intrigued by this from Eat, Geek, Love – who I now have a blog crush on. “Platonic friendships between members of the opposite sex, I have noticed, are viewed as the unicorns of the relationship world.“
A few days ago my husband said that, at the age of 50, he just doesn’t care what anyone thinks anymore. My mom said the very same thing. That idea was in my head when I read Cody Alley write about the one question in his head to change his whole life... and we both have a heart crush on Gary Vee (he reminds me of my mom – who was from New Jersey and I love that brashness!)
Are you afraid to do something because you are going to be bad at it. I swear to you we should start a being bad club – hell, I just might. We expect to come out of the womb fully formed, but we took 2 freaking years to learn to walk (elephants get up that moment, people). Lovely and Creative has a great post on how she felt being BAD at something.
Lastly, go read Marisa Mohi’s blog. Regularly. She is someone I met when I spoke at the Oklahoma Women Blogger’s mini conference and she is a bright spot in my world… if she would only bail on her college and come teach at UofA I could see her all the time.
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