Rachel, thank you for putting a word to what I'm also going through with experimental filmmaking. I even bought the good equipment and keep saying I'll get to it and yet everything is still in the box. Message received! Love the featured artist!
How apropos — I just read the following in Pressfield’s Writing Wednesday email:
"That’s Resistance’s playbook, too. It loves to counter-accuse, i.e., tell us the exact opposite of what’s true.
'You’re not a filmmaker.'
'You have no talent.'
'You can’t stay the course.'
The voice of Resistance in our heads will single out our hidden or as-yet-unrealized strengths and present the opposite as if it were true. It will tell us we’re weak, we’re ungifted, we don’t dare tackle the dreams we feel inside ourselves.
Dismiss this.
Remember: Resistance is ALWAYS lying and always full of shit."
Pressfield has pulled me back from the brink of shutting this writing farm down more than once.
A valuable guy to have in your corner. Thanks for sharing, Rachel.
Resistance is real. It has many forms, as does creativity. Thanks for digging for and sharing this kernel of self.
You are evolving….
Rachel, Again your missives have moved me.
Of course you want to be a metalsmith! Embrace it. You are a Polymath.
Of course I imagined be you could be a modern day Renaissance Human. You are driven to understand and master that which seduces and delights you.
I was once told nobody asks me y
What time is it - because I long to explain to them how a watch is made.
What sets you apart from the masses is that you have both the raw and the refined talent. Just look at your exquisite Body of Work.
Wishing you an easy heart and a bucket of patience and clear skies.
What a beautiful message. Too much praise, I fear, but I will soak it in anyway. xoxox
I am also a chipmunk 🐿️!!
Chipmunk artists UNITE!
Rachel, thank you for putting a word to what I'm also going through with experimental filmmaking. I even bought the good equipment and keep saying I'll get to it and yet everything is still in the box. Message received! Love the featured artist!
Maybe our putting it into writing gets us one step closer to taking action.
How apropos — I just read the following in Pressfield’s Writing Wednesday email:
"That’s Resistance’s playbook, too. It loves to counter-accuse, i.e., tell us the exact opposite of what’s true.
'You’re not a filmmaker.'
'You have no talent.'
'You can’t stay the course.'
The voice of Resistance in our heads will single out our hidden or as-yet-unrealized strengths and present the opposite as if it were true. It will tell us we’re weak, we’re ungifted, we don’t dare tackle the dreams we feel inside ourselves.
Dismiss this.
Remember: Resistance is ALWAYS lying and always full of shit."
Pressfield has pulled me back from the brink of shutting this writing farm down more than once.
A valuable guy to have in your corner. Thanks for sharing, Rachel.
Resistance is ALWAYS full of shit. Perfect encapsulation of the definition.
Now I know for sure we are related.