by barbara luel | Mar 17, 2018 | creativity |
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later” [Bob Goff, writer] Restlessness is invading me: I’m leaving again for Japan. This time to see the cherry blossoms. I’ll make some...
by barbara luel | Dec 4, 2017 | creativity |
You’re rejected How many times have I heard that my work was rejected for this or that competition, … I hear “you’re rejected”, instead of “your work is not selected”. It hurts and I take it too personally: I identify myself with my work, I AM my work. So I’m...
by barbara luel | Mar 31, 2017 | creativity, Urban sketching, vulnerability |
How much I would like to be “an untroubled wholeness with the world”… [Sarah Kaufman] These last two weeks I have been again much too busy : I feel I’m being lived, rather then living enjoying life. And the first part of me getting lost is my...
by barbara luel | Feb 24, 2017 | creativity, vulnerability |
When in doubt… The monkeys in my head have been very active lately, making my self-doubt grow, telling me “I make crap and nobody’s interested, telling me I’m boring or ugly, telling me I’m too old for this and that… And look at...
by barbara luel | Feb 19, 2017 | creativity |
Where have I been lately? So it’s true what “they” say: from the beginning of february on, the good resolutions of the new year vanish? I was going to draw each day, but it didn’t work out. I got sucked up in work again, too much work in the...
