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Creation Without Magic
What is Creation without Magic? Mere craft? Decoration? Assembly? When I was a teenager, I’ll never forgive my art teacher for breaking my concept of art. To be fair to him, it was all in the best intentions. And it wasn’t all his fault. I didn’t have to listen. I had many flaws in my…
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2023: The Year of the Trickster
Ever since I read Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert, I have taken a lot of what she said to heart. The purpose of the book was to discuss the perspectives people take on their art and creativity. One of my favorite things that she wrote about was Tricksters and Martyrs. When I was a little…
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: My Own Invisibility
I’ve been reading the Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and I don’t know that I’ve read too many other characters in my life that were so much like me. She grows up as a strange child in France, learning to draw in charcoal. She develops a deep fear of marriage and motherhood. She shuns the…
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Perspective: Suffering is Optional
So today I heard of Camus’s theory of absurdism and I loved it. It fits well with Gilbert’s view of Tricksters and trickster energy. I had no idea someone had laid out my philosophy before. The meaning of life, the eventual necessity of death, creates a conflict within us all. Not only is our own…
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Zoe and Bios
Today I was reading Twyla Tharp’s book, the Creative Habit, and I nearly put it down for good a couple weeks ago. But today I picked it up, I suppose my ruffled feathers from before have been forgotten. I am not a very habitual person, consistency is something hard won from me and someone telling…
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My Picture Book
Today I’ll tell you the story of how I first was inspired to write a book. It was the most magical, nearly fully formed idea I’ve ever had, and I am so excited to realize it as well as I can. It starts with the book Big Magic by Liz Gilbert. Yes, the Eat, Pray,…