When I started graduate school in New York City, my very first assignment was to write an essay so that the school could assess my writing skills. I was considered a...
Category: Jamberry Circus Tags: 2020, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Face Masks, Lockdown Life, Mask, Staying Safe
And it’s done. Or is it just starting? I have finished the 12-week Artist’s Way program. I’m slowly sinking into the most delicious feeling of accomplishment. Over the last several years,...
Category: Jamberry Circus, Self, Writing as a Practice Tags: ArtistsWay, Creativity, Joy of Creativity, Self Awareness, Self Care, Writing
Thinking about change and nurturing myself were the key actions for Week 11. I reflected on all the ways I’ve changed since Week 1 and also made some commitment towards how...
Category: Jamberry Circus, Self, Writing as a Practice Tags: Art, ArtistsWay, Online Experiences, Self Awareness, Self Care, Writing
In the last three weeks, I fell into the Virtue Trap (i.e. deprioritized myself), got scared of my own ambitions as laid out in the Goal Search during week 8, and...
Category: Jamberry Circus, Self, Writing as a Practice Tags: ArtistsWay, Courage, Self Awareness, Synchronicity, Writing
I took two weeks to get through week 8, and I’m glad I gave myself extra time for the week 8’s tasks. I felt overwhelmed thinking about goals and setting a...
Category: Jamberry Circus, Self, Writing as a Practice Tags: ArtistsWay, Big Magic, Inspiration, Self Awareness, Self Care, Writing
I’ve spent my entire adult life thinking of myself as a plant terminator. I have killed off more house plants than I can bear to think of. Even plants that are...
Category: Green Thumb Stories, Jamberry Circus, Self, Wellness Tags: Attention, Forming New Habits, Indoor Plants, Self Awareness, Trying New Things
Visual Arts and Practice were the two key themes this week. I painted, made a collage, watched MOMA’s Virtual Views on photography and the art of Yayoi Kusama, took photographs of...
In Week 4 of the Artist’s Way program, we were supposed to write an Artist’s Prayer which I thought would be really difficult because it felt like writing poetry and I...
Category: Jamberry Circus, Self, Writing as a Practice Tags: ArtistsPrayer, ArtistsWay, Blessed, Gratitude, Prayer, Self Awareness, Writing
Week 6 is in the bag! This week I learnt to accept freebies – a pineapple from my neighbor, four online lessons from my yoga studio, a class making Salzburger Nockerl...
Category: Jamberry Circus, Self, Writing as a Practice Tags: Abundance, ArtistsWay, Get Creative, Joy of Creativity, Self Awareness, Writing
March 20, 2020 was a good day. It was a Friday and the beginning of spring break. Three people whom I have known practically my whole life celebrated their birthdays on...
Category: Jamberry Circus, Self, Writing as a Practice Tags: ArtistsWay, Self Awareness, Writing
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