It has been a while since I have posted here in Creative Every Day. I have been steadily doing my art-thing, but haven’t been sharing as much. I can’t say why because there really isn’t one. Instead I will say I am grateful to be here and look forward to interacting with all of you again!
It has been a season of reawakening – with more on the horizon.
You know that buzzy feeling you get when something is on its way? Like a pregnancy of a different sort, almost. Usually my summers are a time to refresh through rest, but for the first time in a long time this Summer, I come to it feeling quite rested before it even began. I actually looked FORWARD to my children being done with the school year.
Like I said, it is a season of reawakening.
My biggest evidence of that, perhaps, is in the garden I have been creating inside my home.
It has also been years since I have had houseplants and I was handed down a few in February.
I decided to grow a new pothos from the existing pothos. Once I did this, it was like something clicked into place. I asked for Terra Cotta pots for Mother’s Day and started painting them almost right away. Here are my most recent repotting – newly potted – and soon-to-be-potted in my little pothos family:
The biggest one was just repotted two days ago. I didn’t just toss a bunch of soil into the pot, I started with rocks I had gleaned from the river, some grapefruit rinds and old twigs from past year’s Christmas Trees plus a couple pages from a poetry book (on the topic of Revelation) and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening.
I am so glad I took the time to find how to protect my terra cotta painting & create such simple yet fulfilling, useful and alive works of art.
I look forward to seeing your work this week and in the weeks to come!
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© 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott
Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She facilitates Virtual Writing Camp & will be hosting the final session of the 2011/12 season next week. Register before it is too late: Writing the Journey: Memoir, Life Writing & Travel Writing Intensive.
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