09/04/2007

The Editor's Mug - September/October 2007

Writer Reminders In A 'New Year'

I was reminded recently that my creativity is not something I should sit on, but work on and share and enjoy.

I was also reminded that we make time for the things that are truly important to us.

It made me think of when we first started The Coffee Press Journal, and how we had less than half-a-dozen entries in the first few issues. Sure, there is always an "ebb and flow" in the sheer number of submissions we receive, but the consistency of our pages has been encouraging.

Sometimes, in the providing of this space for others, I forget that I, too, am a writer...a poet...a creative being with need to allow an outflow of thought and soul.

This is why it's good to be reminded.

The scary thing for me is to see just how much inspiration and motivation are so connected. If I am uninspired in my writing, it is hard to be motivated in my designs. If I can't get a graphic design down the way I want it, I find myself wanting to write less. It's like waiting for the inspiration to come, but lacking the motivation to find *it* instead.

It's a tricky place to be sometimes.

 

I've just begun my "new year". Yes, I know it's September, but my years are based on a different (and personal) calendar that revolves more around the end of August. Think of farmers and students...these are the people who find their "new year" beginning at or toward the end of summer. My life is spent sowing and reaping, even if not literal seed. As a student of life, I am always awaiting the next class to teach me what it is I need to know to get to the next level. I make Labor Day weekend (USA) my time to reflect on the past year and all that's been given, and find how to give it back and start over.

Thus, my "new year" is just starting. I am purposing (as a "resolution" of sorts) to not take for granted my art, my passion for creating something from nothing but a thought or a whisper. I do not wish to have the need to be reminded that the artist in me needs to be uncaged and let loosed to run amok for undetermined amounts of time. After all, "it is the flight in the clouds of my artistic imagination that keeps me the most grounded."

Cheers!

=jb=

Posted by =jb= at 09/04/2007 5:14:52pm
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