So it's week 1 with The Artist's Way and it's all about recovering a sense of safety.
I am a bag girl...a hippie bag/backpack carrying person all the way. I carry my bag with me everywhere I go. It is my security blanket- my sense of safety. Both my bag and all that it holds inside.
I've always been like this, since I was a teenager. My parents fought a lot; well... mostly my mother just screamed and threw things. So I'd always carry an extra T-shirt or pair of jeans with me, just in case I wanted to make a quick escape, or not come home at all for a day or so. To this day, I prefer backpacks or big hippie bags from the army surplus store.
I keep inside and bring everywhere with me, things that are personal and important to me...my journal/sketchbook, daytimer, addy book, digi-cam, pens & markers, my crystal mojo, granola bars, bus schedules, toothbrush, tylenol, chap-stick, whatever paperback book I'm currently reading, etc.
I like the idea of being "portable". I frequently whip out my journal and a pen while sitting in a coffee shop. I often read when I'm on the bus, or waiting while my hatchling is at her dance class.
When she was younger, we'd go to the park every night after supper. While she played on the jungle-gyms, and swings, I frequently sat close by and wrote in my journal about my single motherhood journey.
Bottom line - my sense of safety is directly related to having my "personal stuff" with me.
I've been doing my morning pages every day...I had a new, never-used journal sitting on my bookshelves and now it has a purpose all of it's own.
Artist's Date? nothing yet - but I plan to spend an evening alone with my acrylic paints and some modge podge and magazine tear outs....maybe tonight?
Hope you are all having a great time with this book!
