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Ok! Now I'm starting to wonder if a two hour nap counts as a field trip??
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No no and no some more..
But then I can have a nap whenever I want one.. I am retired.. oh lordy I am retired..
Page 19.. The Basic Tools..
Spending time in solitude with your artist child is essential to self nurturing.. A long country walk, a solitary expedition to the beach for a sunrise or sunset, a sortie out to a strange church to hear gospel music, to an ethnic neighborhood to taste foreign sights and sounds --- your artist might enjoy any of these.. Or your artist might like bowling..
Hmmmm about the bowling..
This on the side of that page..
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with objects it loves.
C. G. Jung..
Page 20 (what I underlined and put a star against..)
You are likely to find yourself avoiding your artist dates. Recognize this resistance as fear of intimacy --- self intimacy. Often in troubled relationships, we settle in an avoidance pattern with our significant others. We don’t want to hear what they are thinking because it just might hurt. So we avoid them, knowing that, once they get the chance, our significant others will probably blurt out something we do not want to hear. It is possible they will want an answer we do not have and can't give them. It is equally possible we might do the same to them and then the two of us will stare at each other in astonishment, saying, “But I never knew you felt like that.”
It is probable that these self-disclosures, frightening though they are, will lead to the building of real relationship, one which the participants are free to be who they are and to become what they wish. This possibility is what makes the risks of self-disclosure and true intimacy profitable. In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it. Our creativity will use this time to confront us, to confide in us, to bond with us, and to plan.
Stuff like this really helped me sort my reunion.. I needed to find out who I was and am.. the good and the bad.. And I believe this is the core of the thing that Julia Cameron is into here..
Loving one self..
Taking time with one self.. becoming intimate with one self and no longer avoiding what we do not want to think about..
I went to Boston on a date with myself.. I sat and journaled.. and I remembered..
I still have those journals..
Jackie