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I’m asked a lot to be in books, to review books, to promote other’s books and 99% of the time I decline. Everyone and their mamma seems to have a book nowadays and from what I’ve seen, a lot seem to just be riding the creative bandwagon which I hopped off long ago.
The thing is, I’m highly creative but I’m also business and it seems that books either address one or the other. Also, a lot of self-employed/creative books geared …
Image by Summer Pierre
I’ve known Summer Pierre for a few years. She was kind enough to be profiled on Another Girl at Play and dish with me on several occasions in both Palo Alto CA & New York. With each visit she’s inspired me and her blog is a never ending visual treat. She’s an amazing, highly creative artist… with a day job.
I once wrote about the highly acclaimed artist Dai Giang who had art showings around the world and …
At the conference I kept referring people to my book page for information, only to realise today that it hasn’t been updated in over a year! So, slowly but surely I’m making my way to making additions to the book pageand adding reviews.
But since I keep getting asked what are my top-rated books, I’d offer the following:
I beg you… to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. and the point is, to live everything. live the questions now. perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live …
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
Every few months I seem to develop a theme that encompasses a lesson I need to learn. It usually takes awhile for me to discover that I�m in the midst of a theme and what it is, but once aware, I notice examples of the theme all over.
My current theme is learning how to be ok …
One day the Buddah presented a seed to a group of acolytes. “What do you see?” the Buddah asked. “A seed,” they all agreed. “Look harder,” said the Buddah. “It is the entire forest.”
Often, we ignore what we think insignificant because it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the bigger picture. I’ve heard so many people say, “What does that have to do with anything?” with regards to their dream.
But every little thing and detail is connected to …
“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively.
“You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpiller.”
- Trina Paulus, Writer.
The Chronicles of Girl at Play began in April 2001 as a way for me to chronicle my leaving a successful corporate position to become a self-employed writer.
