Thursday Thoughts...

It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.” 

Lillian Hellman 

I think I have mentioned before that I often find a quote that clicks, but I know nought of the author. So it was with this one, and after  a quick peruse I think its fair to say that Ms Hellman was a colourful and interesting character, and who indeed knows where truth lies?

All that aside, this one connected with me today, when I am at the point of the Thursday Thoughts cycle where I am pondering art.

I spend a fair bit of time in my head wondering why I don't have more art in my days and my life? Why do I find it so hard to just go make? Why do I feel this massive obligation to do all the chores first? Why does going to the studio feel like a reward for doing the other things instead of my purpose?

I still don't have the answers, and I still don't have the strategies to move me there and I think that's why I responded to this one. It is indeed a sad day when you realise that the main reason you don't have this making life in the way you crave it, is you.

Or me.

It's probably me and a whole bundle of 'shoulds' that I seem to carry around with me, that stop me committing fully.  An interesting thought to ponder.

My egg stones from Scotland. Times like these, the studio really calls...