4 Feb 04
My decluttering journal arrived yesterday... yaaaayyyy! I'm scanning it today.
And, I'm working on art. Ideally, I'll have a whole pile of art for sale this weekend. Cheap art and stuff that took more time, I hope. Several faerie windows, for example.
It's a good, rainy day when I'll get a LOT accomplished.
I spoke with London Lad this morning, and he let me know about someone who's making tee-shirts at prices that include a small set-up fee, but once that's out of the way, he's creating quality shirts for far less than Cafe Press. And, his work is good. I may do that with some of my designs. I'm seriously thinking about it.
I'm also beginning to link my past aisling.net diary entries to the current one. I didn't save many of my entries since late 2001, for some reason. But, I have enough of them to portray a clear picture of where I've been, and the process that's been evolving since 1995 when I first put my diary online.
Meanwhile, from the latest issue of Utne Reader, quoting Eckhart Tolle:
"...Attention is also the essence of Zen, a state of alertness in which there is no tension. It is a relaxed alertness, as if you were listening, though there is nothing to listen to. In this state, thought actually subsides; it stops.
"...Great artists create from there; great scientists, too... their best insights came at a time of mental stillness... out of that stillness, that aware presence, came the answer.
"...Great athletes also enter that state. They are not thinking about what they're doing; the mind has nothing to do with it. Right action happens spontaneously, and they are totally alert.
"The ancient teachings point out that it is possible to live that way, such that your whole life is a statement of that state of consciousness; the madness doesn't reassert itself the moment you stop your artistic or athletic activity.
"...Creativity doesn't come from the human mind. The human mind may give it form, but the deep inspiration for it--the essence of it--always comes out of that state of alert presence: not mind, not thought. Subsequently perhaps, thought comes in, more so in certain activities: writing, for example. But even the writer listens and waits for it to come."
I like this. I rarely think when I'm creating my journal collages. And, they usually turn out very well, and with meaning that was not consciously intended.
For example, I did not see the "tear" indications in the collages on pages 2 and 13. But, the next day when I was scanning them... bingo, the tears were obvious.
At the time, the copper leaf and other elements just seemed to "fall" that way. There was no conscious thought in the placement at all.
Anyway, I'm getting back to work/play now. It's a good, productive day.
Wishing you rich and creative days filled with dazzling inspiration,
What I'm reading right now: Utne magazine, and PanGaia magazine
What I'm listening to right now: Fleetwood Mac's 'The Dance'
What I'm watching right now: The Matchmaker
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