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self-directed study // the why
“Bone by bone, hair by hair, Wild Woman comes back. Through night dreams, through events half understood and half remembered, Wild Woman comes back. She comes back through story.” -Clarissa Pinkola...
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self-directed study // ever-widening circles
ever-widening circles The question in life is not “how much time do we have?” The question is “what shall we do with it?” -Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay What piques your interest? Which activities,...
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self-directed study // incorporating collage & color
Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World by Natalie Goldberg I had to go to an empty white canvas and find out what was within me. -Natalie Goldberg The first hurdle in determining your personal why is...
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self-directed study // resilience
Most of us have little sense of our true strength. -Julia Cameron, Finding Water Resilience is a characteristic of both why and how to engage in a self-directed study. It is revealed in our willingness...
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Week 40 // my self-directed study
Week 40 // weekly page from October planning pages I found I could say things with colors that I couldn’t say in any other way — things that I had no words for. -Georgia O’Keeffe Week 40: the best and...
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self-directed study // review as of Day 6
collaged quoted material: Robert Henri, The Art Spirit So much of a creative life is knowing when to go forward and when to retreat. So much of winning through in the long haul boils down to knowing...
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self-directed study // eyes wide open
In My Bones: A Visual Journal by Orly Avineri The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. -Anna Quindlen The ability to...
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self-directed study // note-taking: graphic organizer
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann The practice of eliminating the unnecessary is the key to effective note-taking as a means of...
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self-directed study // reading: dimensions
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. -Mortimer J. Adler A self-directed study begins with a promise to...
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self-directed study // attentiveness, line by line
…the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. -Mary Oliver Gluebooking is a means of creative note-taking and facilitates a time for...
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self-directed study // autonomy
Rather than trying to act big and strong, we allow ourselves to be small and convalescent. -Julia Cameron, Finding Water A self-directed study as a practice develops your sense of autonomy — your now,...
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Week 41 // grace & living like water
Week 41 // page from my commonplace book Art is what happens when you dare to be who you really are. -Emily Freeman Week 41: time with friends and family; black ink and hand-lettering; working on 2016...
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self-directed study // review as of Day 13
collaged quoted material: Robert Henri, The Art Spirit Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. …you move in a world of...
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self-directed study // creative concentration
creative concentration – Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor by Lynda Barry The great benefit of drawing … is that when you look at something, you see it for the first time. And you can spend...
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self-directed study // note-taking: routines & comfort
To draw you must close your eyes and sing. -Pablo Picasso This series is half-way written and I am delighted by the response I have received as well as celebrating the many self-directed studies I have...
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self-directed study // reading: analytical reading
[contents] How to Read a Book by Mortimer J AdlerTo make knowledge practical we must convert it into rules of operation. We must pass from knowing what is the case to knowing what to do about it if we...
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self-directed study // “no” as a creative power
Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and...
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self-directed study // balance
rhythms of balance Pivotal to any creative journey is the ability to resist the cliff’s edge of drama. All of us are tempted to binge on negativity. -Julia Cameron, Finding Water A self-directed study...
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Week 42 // permission
The unconscious creates, the ego edits. -Stanley Kunitz Week 42: time outside; relationships; nutrition and wellness planning; black ink and hand-lettering; working on 2016 Right Brain Planner™ and...
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self-directed study // review as of Day 20
The truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that. -Alanis Morissette Review as of Day 20 Allow...
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