I thought I'd follow twitter fashion and use Friday to share some things I've seen around the Internet this week and enjoyed. And maybe some other things too...
A beautiful music video and song by a local band
A new magazine that is excited to eat and be merry
A hidden bookstore in NYC
And a few photos from our camping trip last weekend on the McKenzie River outside of Eugene...
Happy weekend to you.
15 July 2011
07 July 2011
For You, Whoever You Are...
I've spent a lot time today between sessions working on the world of In This World. This fixing and fiddling inevitably takes me on a roaming exotic journey around the bloggosphere. I really have to admit it, I love blogs!
Working to create a better, prettier, blog is fun. And it is fun because a blog is something implicitly shared. I may only have 5 page views in a day, but there is always the potential of what I am writing being seen and shared and (hopefully) enjoyed. And that means connection.
This put in my mind something that the great Ursula K. LeGuin said during an interview I saw recorded live for Think Out Loud last year. Someone asked her about whether all writers write for an audience. Her refreshingly honest response, "Real writers do!"
Creation is a gift to be shared. Whether it is a blog post, photo, meal, song, or idea, creations are meant to be shared with others. And the experience of that is so thrilling, fun, and magical.
A lot of the people who come to see me in my therapy practice are creatively frustrated, sometimes consciously, sometimes not. And with that they have not found, or have lost, a medium for connecting. That lack of connecting leads them to feel stifled, inauthentic, and bored. (Read: depressed.)
Therapy is all about developing the ability to find authentic connection, beginning with: yourself.
What are you not creating today? Where are you not connecting? Look for one and you may find the other...
Working to create a better, prettier, blog is fun. And it is fun because a blog is something implicitly shared. I may only have 5 page views in a day, but there is always the potential of what I am writing being seen and shared and (hopefully) enjoyed. And that means connection.
This put in my mind something that the great Ursula K. LeGuin said during an interview I saw recorded live for Think Out Loud last year. Someone asked her about whether all writers write for an audience. Her refreshingly honest response, "Real writers do!"
Creation is a gift to be shared. Whether it is a blog post, photo, meal, song, or idea, creations are meant to be shared with others. And the experience of that is so thrilling, fun, and magical.
A lot of the people who come to see me in my therapy practice are creatively frustrated, sometimes consciously, sometimes not. And with that they have not found, or have lost, a medium for connecting. That lack of connecting leads them to feel stifled, inauthentic, and bored. (Read: depressed.)
Therapy is all about developing the ability to find authentic connection, beginning with: yourself.
What are you not creating today? Where are you not connecting? Look for one and you may find the other...
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