After our meeting this morning I finished reading chapter 2 of The Artist’s Way. Wow, I remember reading this back in 2022 and how deeply it impacted my sense of identity. The part where she talks about “crazymakers” really reminded me of my ex husband, and when she wrote about how we CHOOSE to have the crazymaker in our life as an act of self sabotage it was like a finger pointing right at me. I am interested to do the Life Pie activity again and compare it to 2022. I hope that I have more balance now. I also really love the end of the chapter where she talks about learning to be present in the moment because of the letters from her grandmother. It reminds me that even when life is very difficult, we have simple beauty around us every day, if we just take time to acknowledge it.

Hi friends, Would it be helpful to have this thread to share artist dates and ideas for artist dates? @Lisa David found this article with some great ideas. I'm putting it here and I will put my last couple dates below to share my ideas and what I'm doing. https://www.stephaniescott.art/brushwork/2023/7/4/108-artist-date-ideas

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Hi everyone! What did you have planned for your artist date? I thought we could post some ideas here. I like things that are free or low cost myself 😂

I'm trying to read this, but there's SO MUCH introduction. And I'm trying to concentrate, I really am. Here we are the 22nd of the month, I have to get through page 40 AND do the work. I truly am struggling with this.