Monday (tomorrow) begins the normal year for most everybody in my family and I guess that more than even new year’s day causes me to think about plans.
I really hope that I make time to write, here, and on a novel that I at least actually began this past year. I’ve always struggled to find a focus on blogging, so it would be great to manage to do so this year. I also plan on using Nicolaides- The Natural Way To Draw as a tool to begin drawing more and hoefully to improve.
If any of you are Orthodox, or leanng that way, such as I. This is a great plan for reading through the Orthodox version of the Bible in a year’s time.
It seems to me that right before the meat of the routine year kicks in I find myself wanting to hang on to some creative and energetic things I pick up during these slower times. While also growing fearful that they will be lost in the busyness of what is coming up. Too often my fears are realised, and the process occurs so subtly, I hardly seem to even notice. If any of you have some solutions to this problem, leave them in the contents by all means.
I’m finding it difficult to maintain that balance as well. Go for the drawing! I’ve been taking a sketch book with me and as I sketch I feel the creative belief surge again within me.
Sometimes its my very busy-ness that prompts me to stop, to breath, to enter the moment. Rising early to meditate seems to allow me this kind of reminder, as if it sets a whispered reminder throughout the day.