Today, I would like you, dear readers, to know these Five Things ~
1. I don't usually respond directly to comments left on this blog, but I read every single one of them, and they always make me smile. I am still kind of in awe of the fact that people take time out of their day to read this blog, and I appreciate the extra time and effort it takes to enter your information and type in those comments.
2. I think I've finally moved on from my teeter-totter love/hate angsty relationship with blogging and social media, and now I'm simply enjoying it. Only took me five years!
3. Every once in a while I wonder why I feel an almost compulsive desire to be constantly creating and sharing, but then I think about all of the incredibly kind words people have shared with me here, on their own blogs, over email, and in person and I immediately stop wondering.
4. I don't think I have any special answers or magic formulas, I just try to tell the truth. Maybe I spend too much time trying to examine every angle of whatever topic it is I'm fixated on, but I appreciate so much that I never feel like I am maneuvering through these explorations alone. I share these internal journeys here, and I am grateful that you have been willing to listen and share your own perspectives.
5. Without you, there would be no art shows, no workshops, no storytelling, no blog, no books, and no reason to do much of anything. Without you, I'm toast.
In other words, to say I feel grateful doesn't quite cut it. I feel blessed and held, seen and heard. I hope in some small way I have done the same for you.
Thank you! I love this post and want to thank you for the honesty, thoughtfulness and heart you bring to this space. Love you!
Posted by: Marianne | August 16, 2010 at 06:45 PM
yes.
Posted by: doorways traveler | August 14, 2010 at 09:55 AM
OH blog. Little tiny powerful blog. Love you. SO MUCH.
Blogging is beyond some people, it comes off as single-sided, self-centred and quite frankly non-interactive to some, but not me.
Quite the opposite to me.
I meet.
I fall deeply in like and sometimes love with the voices out there that have opinions, photos, and slices of wonderfulness to share.
I can only hope that my little slice counts too.
Keep it all up girl because this is an incredibly powerful way to connect with people.
I have no doubt that through your words you may have saved a life or two. You matter. SO.
xoxox
Posted by: gillian | August 13, 2010 at 08:30 PM
I love this post. It's so giving of you.
I so enjoy reading your blog. I don't comment on every post, but I do read every post. Your recent series on blogging really made me think, and I liked watching you think out loud on the page as you wrestled with your thoughts on the subject. And of course, I always love hearing how life in your studio is going.
Thank you for continuing to share yourself with us! I love getting to know you. (And I hope someday we can meet in person! I am just sure it would be fabulous. Maybe over Indian food?)
Posted by: Christianne | August 13, 2010 at 04:06 PM
and you, my friend, are a spectacular blessing back!
Posted by: linda | August 13, 2010 at 03:23 PM
i loved your photo in la vie claire. my friend mailed me a copy because she knows i am attending squam next month, and will be in your class. you have inspired me for over ten years.
Posted by: Pippin Schupbach | August 13, 2010 at 08:05 AM
yes ... you inspire me always with your wonderful ability to just be who are you are and question the life you live ... much love beauty, xo
Posted by: darlene | August 13, 2010 at 07:46 AM
You give me hope that after some more years, I, too, will be able to move on from the "teeter-totter love/hate angsty relationship with blogging and social media"! Hee hee. I was so happy to read that line. :-)
Posted by: sherry | August 13, 2010 at 07:20 AM
you have totally done the same for me.
Posted by: leonie | August 13, 2010 at 07:12 AM
I love the snippets of your life--whether it's in your studio, your writing, your book, or your yoga pants.
Posted by: Leigh | August 13, 2010 at 04:45 AM
You inspire me every single day my friend. Thank you for being sharing your journey...and letting me be part of it. xoxo
Posted by: melissa | August 13, 2010 at 03:53 AM
When i think of being true to myself, and i need courage, i think of you.
you matter. you help. you encourage. you are here. your truths, your truthtelling, make me brave. me being brave makes my life better, no it makes it amazing...(when i get past all the stuff)and i am actually being brave.
so i want to thank YOU. i feel blessed to have 'met' you online, living so faarrrr apart...knowing in my heart that braveness live inside, right here, in my heart xx
Posted by: linni | August 13, 2010 at 01:00 AM