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Processing Thoughts of Creative Growth
Nov. 14th, 2004 07:01 pmThis year has been a rather dismal one in the area of Creative Growth. Somewhere around April I dumped my Goals and Check in. There has been stress in my life that I can't pin down, but to which I can attribute my dismal showing in my goals. The stress is probably work related.
Today I skipped the Writer's Workshop. Considering the needs that I had to attend to, skipping the workshop was an odd action. One of the gifts that Juli gave me for my birthday was the full version of Adobe Photoshop CS. I was after Adobe Photoshop 7 but apparently CS is the next version. Today I tended to two tasks. One was the installation and set up of CS, as well as going through the tutorial video, which was more of a commercial for their $300 workshop on DVD. There were many items that came up in the video that looked very cool, which I will pursue in the text book. I'm good at book learnin'.
The other task was the cleaning and organizing of the art room, including the removal of much collected yet never to be used papers. So now the art room looks very ready for use. One of the interesting items that I found in the art room was a letter from Rachel Ehrlich from 1993. Inside the letter was a photograph of me from a whale watch that we all went on in Westport. That was the one where![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chuck_melville's Saturn 3 baseball cap went over the side and had to be rescued.
The photo of me shows me as rather skinny and with shoulder length curly hair. Whoa! HA!
But back to topic: I've been railing against my own lethargy again. It's the same feeling as I've had before, the feeling of my creativity like a dried pea in a small box actively rattling around trying to get out. The workshop would have possibly helped, but it's been my experience that while I'm in this frustrated mode I don't benefit from the workshops. When I'm there I feel creative and I want to be here creating rather than there. Odd. But now I've set a stage. My desire is to make it work.
Today I skipped the Writer's Workshop. Considering the needs that I had to attend to, skipping the workshop was an odd action. One of the gifts that Juli gave me for my birthday was the full version of Adobe Photoshop CS. I was after Adobe Photoshop 7 but apparently CS is the next version. Today I tended to two tasks. One was the installation and set up of CS, as well as going through the tutorial video, which was more of a commercial for their $300 workshop on DVD. There were many items that came up in the video that looked very cool, which I will pursue in the text book. I'm good at book learnin'.
The other task was the cleaning and organizing of the art room, including the removal of much collected yet never to be used papers. So now the art room looks very ready for use. One of the interesting items that I found in the art room was a letter from Rachel Ehrlich from 1993. Inside the letter was a photograph of me from a whale watch that we all went on in Westport. That was the one where
chuck_melville's Saturn 3 baseball cap went over the side and had to be rescued. The photo of me shows me as rather skinny and with shoulder length curly hair. Whoa! HA!
But back to topic: I've been railing against my own lethargy again. It's the same feeling as I've had before, the feeling of my creativity like a dried pea in a small box actively rattling around trying to get out. The workshop would have possibly helped, but it's been my experience that while I'm in this frustrated mode I don't benefit from the workshops. When I'm there I feel creative and I want to be here creating rather than there. Odd. But now I've set a stage. My desire is to make it work.
