Dear Blogger

I have been neglecting you as of late. I assume that will change soon...

I have been reading a sort of self help book, the Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron and I believe that I have found my second bible.

If anyone knows me I am not at all emotionally connected to my religion. I've had issues with religion all my life. It was not so much the lack of believing but the lack of reason to believe. My theory was always to do just enough to be on the safe side; get cool points for trying.

Perhaps the problem with me and religion has always lied in my inability to fit in. After a while it turned to an in-desire to fit in. I rather be alone than amid a group of like minded individuals. I rarely feel pride in anything that involves group effort and have never really been patriotic (although I have my loyalties). "If everyone else is doing it then what is the point," I always wondered? Somewhere along the line religion got placed into a category of group projects I didn't belong to.

However, with Cameron's book I feel that perhaps religion (or at least the interpretation of it that I chose to follow) can have a place in my life and in my art. The gist of the book can probably be summed up with one poignant quote:

"We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves."

Now, I must make it clear that I am in no way preaching religion or the power of Moses, Jesus Christ, Alah, (or any other recognizable religious figure ) to any reader (if any exist). I am simply saying that for me, perhaps there is something in this book that may help me gain a deeper understanding of myself and my art.

This book has a 12 week, 12 step program to creative rediscovery, which may be what I have been searching for in the Masters Program at VSW but not finding. Maybe this book is that 15% that I need to push me past the hurdles that I have faced within my art work. That 15% may be whats standing between me and my confidence as an artist and as a human being.

Who knows, this may be the last entry before a life altering event.

So here's to trying new things and to new beginnings....


... see you on the other side...

-Rona G