Comments on: Connecting to Your Longing

By: Liv

Liv — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:03:36 +0000

Leah, love the photos and your insights. I couldn’t help but think about all the “connecting” you do with your site. You’ve built a community of artists and art lovers, practically plucking them out of thin air and attracting them to you and each other. And I suspect it’s become more than you even imagined…or desired…when you first started. I know that’s how it feels for me.

I just relaunched a new site that has been such a joy to build (www.mysweetangelpie.com). It feeds a part of me – the creative mommy in me, the creative kid in me – that the One Year of Beauty blog doesn’t. It’s all about raising and nurturing spirited kids with products, ideas, wisdom, etc and I’m having so much fun connecting with the part of me that cares so much about those things and with others who feel the same way. Thanks for all the inspiration!

Liv

By: Shayla

Shayla — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:24:27 +0000

Interesting what you’ve said about desire, Leah. It reminds me of the lyrics in “Bird on a Wire.” I feel stuck trying to find my place between the two sometimes. “I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch, He said to me, you must not ask for so much. And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door, She cried to me, hey, why not ask for more?”

By: tammy vitale

tammy vitale — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:54:00 +0000

I know that one: it’s too big, what if I don’t reach it? somehow reach for the moon and you’ll land among the stars didn’t sound like enough. If I want the moon, doggone it, it’s the moon I want, not the stars. Better to not want anything. Thanks for writing about that. Right now as I’m deciding to get my blog transferred (with ALec by the way)and listening to Christine Kane who says: this side of your business is as important as the art side. Resistance big time. It’s always good not to be alone in these feelings! (and I’m coming to think that we get the biggest resistance around repeated lessons, which this is for me: grow that business. It’s bigger than you’re letting it be!)

By: Glad

Glad — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:34:13 +0000

First, your photos are great. Beautiful color, texture and depth.

Second, I am also a nature lover. I find I do my best thinking (or Nothing) when I walk in the woods. I get lost in there and my mind cartwheels with ideas and solutions. I love that.

I read the chapter and realized I wanted to pick up pebbles that lead to creativy, particularly painting. I have always been so afraid to try it (or even to admit i wanted to) because I was afraid to fail. I am no artist, but I want to express something … I haven’t figured it out yet … but my heart says pick up a paint brush. I’m listening this time instead of ignoring it.

By: Ana

Ana — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:05:59 +0000

Leah,
It’s so good to hear about your day, and your own experience with the feeling or being of longing. I think for me, this kind of notion appears more in my sense of purpose and duty whilst am here on earth. Not so much in the expression of art, but the willingness to get on my journey and do what I am here to do. This longing is very much in action at the moment, and as its meeting the true purpose. Yey.
Your pictures are very beautiful and am glad that you are connecting with this sense of longing. What is more cherishable is the experience as a whole, past the desire and the human need.

By: sarahkdesigns

sarahkdesigns — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:33:34 +0000

looks lovely : )

By: Angie Fortuin

Angie Fortuin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:52:28 +0000

yes, I have been wanting to paint more just to produce something to show, and I get to do some in my art classes, but when i am at home i get pulled to do textile art more, i am drawn to sew, build felt dolls and just play around, these are my nudges, yet I feel i should be painting more!
As long as I am creating I am happy.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:57:09 +0000

These photos are beautiful. I find myself drawn to reflections in water a lot as well.

I like how you explored your desires, and I wouldn’t worry if it takes a while for the larger, scarier ones to emerge. I think that’s why Beck handles desire the way she does in the chapter, and suggesting we pick pebbles. Often those pebbles add up or lead to the larger desires. And, it could actually be that the life you have is, for the most part, the one you want. That would be a wonderful thing!

I hope you’re having a good weekend, and that you enjoy this next week of creativity!

By: Genie Sea

Genie Sea — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:51:08 +0000

I love the intuitive way you worked through your desires. The photography is richly ethereal and deeply earthly.

By: gemma

gemma — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:36:15 +0000

My inner nudgings are calling me to be part of the art.
Into it…the stroke of paint,the brush itself…perhaps somethings emerging.