by jlouden | Jul 9, 2015 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
In life, there comes a time when you so sharply, so clearly, see your recurring patterns; you see the cost, feel the pain of doing the same thing yet again, that you can barely stand it. You watch yourself (just for example) yet again: Make a snarky comment about...
by jlouden | Oct 29, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I found myself muttering at my i-Pad this weekend when one of those “perfect life” narratives popped into my Facebook feed. You know, the kind where somebody shows you their perfect life and then suggests that you too can have the same “pinch me” life if...
by jlouden | Apr 15, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
Think about it: when creating anything, you attempt to translate the shadowy bits that dart and loop around your brain, that whistle for your attention and then immediately hide — you attempt to render them into something others can partake of. Black marks on white...
by jlouden | Mar 1, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
You may have noticed I’ve skipped the last two months of this “recap” newsletter. I just haven’t felt like doing it. I kept thinking I wanted to reinvent this form, come up with something new… which became a bigger and bigger project in...
by jlouden | Feb 19, 2014 | Creativity, Self-Care & Comfort
I’m pondering a conversation I recently had with a new friend, a very talented printmaker and writer, about finding your just-right creative medium. What is a Creative Medium? Any form of creative expression that is an active pursuit of self-expression, feeds...