Comments on: Art & Life ~ guest post http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:26:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Novembrance http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-82 Novembrance Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:17:47 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-82 Lovely and articulate, as always! Lovely and articulate, as always!

]]> By: nan http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-80 nan Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:16:28 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-80 Oh, nicely put! My struggle is between painting what the customer wants, and finding out what I want to do! Money? Or artistic integrity? Well, there are bills to pay... Oh, nicely put! My struggle is between painting what the customer wants, and finding out what I want to do! Money? Or artistic integrity? Well, there are bills to pay…

]]> By: Lei http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-76 Lei Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:39:49 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-76 Beautifully said...it gave me goosebumps as well, only because it felt as if you'd articulated my very own thoughts! I love the "divine hammer" analogy. Beautifully said…it gave me goosebumps as well, only because it felt as if you’d articulated my very own thoughts! I love the “divine hammer” analogy.

]]> By: The Lazy Organizer http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-75 The Lazy Organizer Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:28:42 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-75 Beautiful piece of art! Beautiful piece of art!

]]> By: Michelle at Scribbit http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-74 Michelle at Scribbit Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:32:29 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-74 Great to have found you writing over here and to see Allysha's creativity here Great to have found you writing over here and to see Allysha’s creativity here

]]> By: Mindy http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-73 Mindy Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:43:58 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-73 Beautiful as always Julie. I too love that line that An Ordinary Mom quoted. I fear that I have over-examined my life and have not really lived in it. It is my regret that no one pointed out a humanities major to me while I was going to college. I might have finished. Thank you for your inspiring words. I love how you make me think. Beautiful as always Julie. I too love that line that An Ordinary Mom quoted. I fear that I have over-examined my life and have not really lived in it. It is my regret that no one pointed out a humanities major to me while I was going to college. I might have finished. Thank you for your inspiring words. I love how you make me think.

]]> By: Anne Bradshaw http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-72 Anne Bradshaw Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:28:00 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-72 I agee re the Socrates quote, and loved my visit to this blog. Thank you! I agee re the Socrates quote, and loved my visit to this blog. Thank you!

]]> By: An Ordinary Mom http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-71 An Ordinary Mom Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:12:20 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-71 "Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. I worry sometimes that an over-examined life is not lived." So brilliantly put! I highly enjoyed reading how you came to be who you are. Thanks for sharing! “Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. I worry sometimes that an over-examined life is not lived.” So brilliantly put!

I highly enjoyed reading how you came to be who you are. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Lindsey http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-70 Lindsey Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:45:46 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-70 That was so beautiful, Julie. It gave me goosebumps. A very long time ago I had considered a degree in Humanities and let it slide away. There is so much of what you wrote that really resonated with me. I really enjoyed reading this. That was so beautiful, Julie. It gave me goosebumps.

A very long time ago I had considered a degree in Humanities and let it slide away.

There is so much of what you wrote that really resonated with me.

I really enjoyed reading this.

]]> By: TJ Hirst http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-69 TJ Hirst Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:27:46 +0000 http://www.justanorange.com/2008/04/15/art-life-guest-post/#comment-69 First of all, Allysha's introduction is right. Thanks for the illumination here and elsewhere, Julie, and showing how it can happen in the midst of everyday experiences. Secondly, the creative process is a thrill and agonizing when so much of ourselves is dredged up and recreated in the process. Sloan' Wilson, in an archive article in the The Writer (May 2008), concludes that such self-revelatory discovery creates the best writing. The painting, "Jehovah Creates the Earth," by Walter Rane that hangs above my desk "illuminates" this process for me and all the other tortured artists in our family--whether they are writers, painters, architects or musicians. First of all, Allysha’s introduction is right. Thanks for the illumination here and elsewhere, Julie, and showing how it can happen in the midst of everyday experiences. Secondly, the creative process is a thrill and agonizing when so much of ourselves is dredged up and recreated in the process. Sloan’ Wilson, in an archive article in the The Writer (May 2008), concludes that such self-revelatory discovery creates the best writing. The painting, “Jehovah Creates the Earth,” by Walter Rane that hangs above my desk “illuminates” this process for me and all the other tortured artists in our family–whether they are writers, painters, architects or musicians.

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