Hi Substack friends. I hope you enjoy this question and answer series, which I hope to post weekly, on Fridays. It means the world to me to have you here, so thank you again for joining me, and thank you for providing these great questions. Thank you, Gina-Marie C., for this thought provoking question.
In reading your prose writing part, I found myself identifying with that process when I was working on my advertising degree. I found sometimes ideas came flowing and flooding organically, sometimes I needed just to jot down a visual thing, a lyric, a song, an instrument, a setting, a connection I just made, a concept I needed to capture (even if I wasn't sure how it was connected to truly anything). Certain color combinations even...like my favorite silver, sage green, and white all together...inspire me.
Incredible architecture does too. Y'all go Google Thorncrown Chapel to see something truly special. At Christmas or in the fall, it is spectacular and more than inspiring. It will loosen anyone's creative spirit in its genius and beauty.
The value is in the whiteboarding, because later you would then see how it fits best in creating. Just keep going, and don't stop to edit. Simply loved the creative process and still do.
When I was deeply ill and on the bottom, it was similar to what you expressed. Art, music, selflessness, a flower. Each medicine to be absorbed. These things showed me there was an order to things. Therefore God existence. Not the God of tradition, but something more abstract and ironically more concrete
What a beautiful and thoughtful answer! Thank you!
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You answered my question so wonderfully!
Thank you. I love you❤
Yes, a beautiful & thoughtful answer. Thank you!
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Yes, Allison, love is the secret strength for our problems.
You are a bright inspiration in a dark time. You are such a blessing to those of us struggling.
In reading your prose writing part, I found myself identifying with that process when I was working on my advertising degree. I found sometimes ideas came flowing and flooding organically, sometimes I needed just to jot down a visual thing, a lyric, a song, an instrument, a setting, a connection I just made, a concept I needed to capture (even if I wasn't sure how it was connected to truly anything). Certain color combinations even...like my favorite silver, sage green, and white all together...inspire me.
Incredible architecture does too. Y'all go Google Thorncrown Chapel to see something truly special. At Christmas or in the fall, it is spectacular and more than inspiring. It will loosen anyone's creative spirit in its genius and beauty.
The value is in the whiteboarding, because later you would then see how it fits best in creating. Just keep going, and don't stop to edit. Simply loved the creative process and still do.
When I was deeply ill and on the bottom, it was similar to what you expressed. Art, music, selflessness, a flower. Each medicine to be absorbed. These things showed me there was an order to things. Therefore God existence. Not the God of tradition, but something more abstract and ironically more concrete