Should I Continue to Blog or Not?

I've been wondering if I should keep this blog up.  Now with all these other social media platforms, it feels a little redundant.  But, I also like it as a slice of my brain from time to time.  So here's at least one more entry.

The election.  I don't really want to talk about it, but to say that it has given me a renewed energy that is surprising.  An energy to create and express and share.  An energy to not procrastinate but to move and activate, engage with others and put my own doubts and despair aside.  I wonder how long this will last...

Here are a few photos of things I have been working on.   As usual, there are cards being made.

In September, I participated again in the Luna Park Chalk Festival.  This year's theme was inspired by our residency at Lotus Preschool.  I loved working with those kids, ages 3-5.  They are so open and lovely.  And funny!

I painted this the day after the election.  "Peace and Love Fish."  Swimming upstream together, against the tide.  I wanted to wash away the connotations of blue and red.  I love blue and red.

And the painting urge continued to make this Taiko Garden.  The night after the election, I had to go to the studio to play taiko.  I imagined how the founders of San Jose Taiko felt when they started the group, to do something.  To make something beautiful to express all these feelings.

We have to get to know each other better in order for things to happen, but you can't get to know me if I stay quiet.

Resting

Home sick today.  I think my body is trying to tell me something.  I don't know how to turn "off" when I need to, so my body is saying "STOP!"  Even though I had written myself this note...

It was based on an article I just read which said, 

No amount of multivitamins, yoga, meditation, sweaty exercise, superfoods or extreme time management, as brilliant as all these things can be, is going to save us from the effects of too much work. 

So here I am at home, trying to rest and recover.  And playing with ink.  Does doodling count as resting?

"these are my insides are they healthy? but my body sometimes lets me down even though i try to love and take care of it"

Spring Cleaning

This past weekend I spent time clearing things out.

Considering the last post and my lack of energy, I knew something had to change.

This is what came out of me today.

Energy

Have I written about energy already?

It's something I think about a lot with taiko, how energy flows from person to person in a performance, how it moves through your body from your center to fingertips.  How to move that energy.  

But it seems so finite lately - I only have so much energy to give and after that there is no more.  I'm disappointed to see that my last blog post was in November.  Pushing out creative energy has been difficult as of late.  Its interesting because I work in the arts, yet the way your creative energy moves in such a dynamic organization is not always up to you.  Sometimes it pools over here or there and waits, sometimes it gets pushed out when not ready.  That is not anyone's fault, it just is.

Drawings from the last few months are about energy.  Looking at it sitting there, or draining away.