Comments on: Self-Portrait: What You Do and Who You Want to Be

By: Margaret

Sat, 30 Sep 2017 18:02:24 +0000

hi,
2 steps I’ve taken-
first -is reduce my work hours by 1/2, now working only 2 days a week!! I have a 5 day weekend!!
second – we bought a new home on a 1 acre property with a 500 sq ft studio for me!!- have moved a mountain of boxes into it but need to spend some time there getting organized!!

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By: Robin Edmundson

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:19:38 +0000

I just made a place to meditate in my studio. I found that not only does it help me, but others have noticed the change in energy in the studio. Bonus! I’m going to commit to meditating regularly. The challenge will be for me to take time to sit still every day.

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By: Kristen O'Neill

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:14:35 +0000

I commit to stretching again every morning. I will explore yoga as a way to do this better. I’ve wanted to for years, so I am starting today!

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By: Amy Evans

Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:28:32 +0000

I am committing to a regular practice of contemplative prayer and yoga…slowing down too…also reading more…positive books in addition to painting as a practice too.

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By: Moe

Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:12:31 +0000

The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do?

It seems to me, if what you want to be is BETTER, then the difference between who you ARE and who you WANT to be is what you AREN’T currently doing. The stuff I do is why I am who I am now.

I don’t know. I guess I want to be inspired by the quote but then I get caught up in the logic. I understand the message though.

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

Thomas Jefferson

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By: Marcela Strasdas

Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:43:45 +0000

LOVE this post! Thank you for sharing! it is interesting to read the comments and see how your words touch us in different ways. I pick up on the TAKE ACTION! part. So many times we think about what we want to do or be, how nice it would be if…… but do little to get there. Results do follow continued action. You are inspiring me to go back to daily meditation. 🙂 I slowly stopped doing it and I miss it. Have a lovely day!

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By: Patricia Vener

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:08:18 +0000

In reply to Phil Kendall.

LOL, Phil. It does get a little lonely being a minority, eh? I am also not a realist when it comes to making my art, though I can appreciate it.

Photography can be very expressive and does not need to remain realistic, interestingly.

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By: Phil Kendall

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:13:13 +0000

In reply to Patricia C Vener.

Hi Patricia, I was beginning to think I was the last atheist left on this venerable site…

Me? I just paint when I can and I paint my art-vision not the reality as I find the camera does that best.

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By: Patricia C Vener

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:12:58 +0000

Faith and spirituality do not have to overlap. I am an atheist but I am also very spiritual (where I have defined spiritual to mean a focus of that part of the mind commonly called soul but actually is an unknown aspect of the mind that quite possibly connects us individually to the universe).

No deity necessary.

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By: Nan Henke

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 01:33:31 +0000

Alyson,
It sounds like a lot of artists are interested in the spiritual aspect of life. Coincidence or part of the artistic make-up? I don’t know.

And I don’t know if faith and spirituality overlap 100%, but here is a definition of faith that got me out of the “How can I build my faith? I need more faith!” guilt trip/rut. (I use “he” for convenience, not with intent to describe a gender.)

“Faith is confidence that God is who he says he is, that he will do what he says he will do, that he is for me, not against me, and that he only allows hard things in my life for his good purposes.”

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