Checking in: Week 3 - Recovering a Sense of Power

Morning Pages
Did the seven of them. They’ve become more like journal pages with not much introspection. It could be because I’m not writing them immediately after waking up. I should make an effort so they don’t become “afternoon” pages.

Artist Date
I took a long walk up the pyramid up to the church on top of it. I went around the atrium to contemplate the view of the big city of Puebla and, to the other side, Cholula with the volcanoes as a backdrop. I also went inside the church because, although I have photographed it plenty from the outside, I had never been inside. I found it follows the architecture and fashion of other churches nearby. There’s an appeal to see cities from above and the landscape in the distance. It gives you a feeling of wholeness, of belonging.

Synchronicity
I’m awed by all the synchronicity around me. I feel that I have moved, than I’m making things happen, and the responsive universe might actually be acting and reacting.

Other Issues
I have begun to be more constant in drawing; just for a 15-20 minutes a day, I’m doing one or two practice drawings, but at least it’s getting my hand “un-rusty”.
I’m a bit behind tasks. I’m missing one from wk 1, one from wk 2, and 5 from this wk. I intend to catch up in the next week or two.

Some quotes taken from the author Julia Cameron

• “Anger is meant to be listened to [...] to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.”
• “[Answered prayers] imply responsibility.[...] We call it coincidence. We call it luck. We call it anything but what it is —the hand of God, or good, activated by our own hand when we act in behalf of our truest dreams, when we commit to our own soul.”
• “We’re much more afraid that there might be a God than we are that there might not be. [...] Most of us are a lot more comfortable feeling we’re not being watched too closely.”
• “Possibility is far more frightening than impossibility.”
• “Life is what we make of it.”
• “[...] the possibility of an intelligent and responsive universe, acting and reacting in our interests.”
• “The what must come before the how.”
• “It is difficult to avoid walking through the many doors that will open.”
• “[Art] illuminates us. [...] It brings healing.”
• “We must learn when criticism is appropriate and from whom [...] timing is very important here.”
• “As artists, we must learn to create our own safe environments.”
• “If you do one nice thing a day for yourself, God will do two more.”

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