Passion

Painting Rage

July 6, 2010
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Sometimes I paint. Sometimes I just take my frustrations out on a canvas. This is certainly part of the latter.

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Starving Artist: Adam WarRock

June 17, 2010

Sometimes the only thing harder than articulating a desire is carrying it out, giving yourself permission to make your passion a pririoty.This link flickered across Twitter today. Adam WarRock gave up his dayjob to pursue his dream.

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Sir Ken Robinson’s Spiritual Argument

April 7, 2010
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One of the things I found most compelling was how Robinson suggests that finding your passion is about much more than just a career or a hobby, that it can really affect the quality of your life and interactions with others. He describes his book, The Element, in part as a spiritual argument.

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Teen Angst Journals

April 6, 2010

It’s easy to forget sometimes where your initial passion for an artform came form, especially if you’ve been doing it for a while. It is not surprising that the idea of teenage poetry is such a cliche, because it is a time when there are a lot of changes happening in your life and for perhaps the first time in your life you’re really consciously reflecting upon the world around you and your role within it. Yet in later life we can look back at this period of life with creative contempt. After all the worst thing a person can say about your work is that is ‘sophomoric’ (even if you are a sophomore!).

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