On the CD of “Romancing the Ordinary” by Sara Ban Breathnach, she mentions Julia Cameron a few times. She is the author of the book, “The Artist Way”.
My brother sent me the book and notebook that went along with it a little over six years ago to begin discovering the Artist within me.
Julia wanted us to write “Morning Pages” just a simple practice of writing a few pages each morning, putting to paper our thoughts.
They could be just stating what we had to do that day, how we were feeling, just ramblings but getting them out of our heads and on to the pages, cleaning up the space to be creative.
I was a beginning student to this Way, when all hell broke lose in my life, and what surprised me greatly, is that I clung to these morning pages, which often grew to day long pages, for sometimes I wrote morning, noon and night.
I filled that first book in a short time and then bought my first journal and after four years of writing longhand, I began a blog.
I still write most days, sometimes more depending upon the unsettledness of my soul; writing is now part of who I am.
What is so synchronistic is this book came to me just a week or so shy of a major event in my life, and it helped me find my way.
What also has happened simultaneously my Artist arrived, she is having a ball playing with ladies, fabric, colors, designs, and is going places Artists go and her work is in an Art Gallery.
I don’t know the way, but it seems to happen anyway.
Perhaps that is the Artist Way.
(I will have to go back and read in her book to see the marks I hit unbeknownst to me.)
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