Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles

Jenny Odell. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Melville House. 2019.

Sharon Louden, editor. Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists. Intellect Ltd. 2013.

You will fall away from a practice, and you are always invited to return to it in this moment, and this one, and this one. Your art is always waiting for you.

Your life is finite, and you should make your art. Things will get in the way and you should still make your art. Return to your art, over and over again. You will find clarity and answers as you feed this vital part of yourself. As you build and maintain a consistent practice, you will find the other parts of living a modern life seem more managea

Joanne Cacciatore. Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief. Wisdom Publications. 2017.

Marketing is part of the business and administrative side of your art career; you should tend to this part weekly during the time you set aside for non-creation activities like email, finances, applications, and so on.

Sometimes a bit of compassion is all we need to change an interaction or our perspective.

There is an intimacy, a sense of destiny, that we could be changed so much by something we found by chance.

The Denial of Death.