Reading deprivation? Are you mad?

Too too funny. I am currently doing The Artist's Way as you may know. I quite like the morning pages, although I do miss them out occasionally and moan a LOT about doing them sometimes. Also I find that they are getting slower to do and I expected them to get faster! I miss them when I don't do them and I am prepared to get up earlier to do them, and if you know me in person, I don't get up earlier for ANYTHING.

I just finished week 3, so apparently I have recovered a sense of safety, a sense of identity and a sense of integrity. Nope, make that a sense of power. You would think that I would remember something like a sense of power, wouldn't you? It's this week that I am supposed to recover a sense of integrity. But. But. BUT! As part of that, we are supposed to experience reading deprivation for a week. I read that last night, all set to start this morning, "yeah I thought, no problem" there might be one or two little unavoidable things for work, but nothing over 5 minutes. I am such a liar! I didn't realise how much I read during the day, and I don't mean steadily working through an amazing book (I do that too of course) but randomly picking up bits of the Sunday paper, compulsively checking email, and I couldn't stay away from my blog reader, I had to catch up after being away all last week. And the postman brought an Amazon order. So. Well. Can I start tomorrow?

I do think following the Artist's Way is already having a benefit though. I am making more art this month then I usually would in a month, excluding obvious things like books in my artist book class.  I finally opened my Etsy store, which I have been whinging about doing for about 6 months! There may only be 3 things in it, but it's a start! So we shall see. I'd love to hear from anyone following The Artist's Way at the moment, or veterans. I had a look at their community, but I don't really have the mental energy for another community, ya know?

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Iran Peace Train

Please take a moment to watch this. It was forwarded to me by my lovely cousin in Vancouver and she does not do forwards, neither do I. But things are snowballing and war looks inevitable.  Please take a moment to watch this little video at http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html. It's an antidote to the propaganda we are all fed every day, a little reminder of what we sacrifice for war, a new face for the new enemy.

(it's not gross or scary, and features music, so switch your speakers on. I didn't need to download anything, it just started when I clicked on the link.)

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Look at me selling on Etsy!

I have been wanting to open an Etsy store for awhile and when it kept turning up in my morning pages I knew I had to take the plunge. I will write more about this tomorrow, but it is very late and my poor husband has stayed up to hold my hand while I set everything up.
Go see the pretty at my shop.
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