Comments on: Art Journal: The Anchor and the Bird http://turningturning.com/art-journal-anchor-bird/ An art therapist on creativity, healing, and the power of making. Tue, 15 May 2012 00:19:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mal http://turningturning.com/art-journal-anchor-bird/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Mal Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:21:02 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=339#comment-169 @lee: This sounds very familiar to my own stuck. It's more of a stillness or paralysis -- a literal "stuck." I think you're right, too -- the key seems to be to just keep moving even when you don't want to. @lee: This sounds very familiar to my own stuck. It’s more of a stillness or paralysis — a literal “stuck.” I think you’re right, too — the key seems to be to just keep moving even when you don’t want to.

]]> By: lee http://turningturning.com/art-journal-anchor-bird/comment-page-1/#comment-167 lee Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:50:38 +0000 http://turningturning.com/?p=339#comment-167 I'm less stuck and more distracted. My inner two-year-old doesn't wanna.... anything! Just sit and read and eat marshmallows. I think I place my faith in horses and spring and process. If I can breathe horse smells and pat them and ride them, and stick the weather until it finally turns, and keep on making things, then eventually I will be making things that are interesting and good and worthwhile. I’m less stuck and more distracted. My inner two-year-old doesn’t wanna…. anything! Just sit and read and eat marshmallows.

I think I place my faith in horses and spring and process. If I can breathe horse smells and pat them and ride them, and stick the weather until it finally turns, and keep on making things, then eventually I will be making things that are interesting and good and worthwhile.

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