Comments on: Growth is coming

By: Mal

Mal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:44:12 +0000

@Lisa: Believe it or not, I actually learned to draw IN my journals. Most of this was predicated on one simple concept: giving myself permission to suck. As soon as I believed it was okay to draw something that looked totally ridiculous, I started drawing things that didn’t look totally ridiculous. (Some still did, but over time they have gotten better.) I still can’t perfectly convey a realistic scene or portrait, but I can get across the message of my own emotional landscape on most days.

With your eye for color and layout, I’d think you’d be a natural at visual journaling, honestly…

By: upstatelisa

upstatelisa — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:35:47 +0000

I wish I kept journals and/or sketchbooks. I need to learn to draw a little better and to find the discipline to do this more often.

By: Mal

Mal — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:15:48 +0000

@Elizabeth: I almost love revisiting old journals as much as I enjoy writing in them in the first place. It’s so wonderful to trace threads of thought through a lifetime of psyche.

Thank you for your positive spin on my morning’s foul mood. I’m going to get to work and wait for the miracle to happen. Thanks!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:12:55 +0000

Keep several journals and sketchbooks but I don’t write daily in them. I learn a lot from it because while I’m writing I have the time to think things through one more time. This gives me a stronger memory of what I’m experiencing/thinking at that particular moment and often I look back on subjects when a new string of thoughts follow.

There is nothing wrong with waking up in a foul mood. You start working and than you notice/experience that the sun starts shining inside yourself. For me, this is a delightful miracle each time it happens.