I keep starting to write posts and nothing with any meaning appears on the screen. I tried to express the feeling last night in my visual journal, so I’ll share that instead:
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Blogger’s block
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Nicely done. I’ve been suffering from blogger’s block for a while now. Maybe creating some images would be helpful in removing the block. Hmmmm…
Hello, Tess. Well you may be suffering _temporary_ (that I’m sure about) verbal blockage but certainly not creative or visually expressive blockage. This collage is great.
I really like how the word ‘out’ is squeezing out the door.
Tess,
I received a gift card during the holidays for Barnes and Noble and just last week during a few minutes when I wasn’t running like a crazy woman, I went into the store and purchased the book, A Year With Rumi by Coleman Barks. I thought of you the entire time because you are the one that inspired me to read Rumi. I even spent a morning reading Rumi to my son who is in sixth grade and he loved it! We talked about what he thought it meant and I was thrilled to expose him to such poetry. I read a poem a day and even passed one of them on to a client of mine as it pertained to grief. Wow. Anyway, thank you for your blog and all that you DO write (when you’re not experiencing writer’s block!). You are terrific!
Tess, this is marvelous and expresses lots more layers than words can say. Thanks so much for sharing it.
woohoo!!!! i love this, of course. so, glad to see this visual expression. i have been wondering lately if i have “room” for both words and images. lately there is something about the images that seems so powerful to me. reminds me of this quote:
“Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks.” –Simonides
with words or images, you speak volumes. so glad you shared this!!!
Wonderful image, Tess. Wonderful. Just don’t pressure yourself. As I suggested to another blogger — be sporadic and proud of it!
Thank you all for these wonderful comments. Amazingly generous. And Maya, if all I’d done in this life was to introduce you and your son to Rumi, then it would absolutely be worth it!
I’ve missed your posts the last few days. The internet connection is sporadic in this condo we’re in and I try my best to read email (as my brother has been ill) and keep some connection w/my blogging too.
I don’t mean to sound frantic – as I’m not – I am on vacation – so when net goes down, I try to empty my head of the verse and clutter that is reigining during my Lenten self-assigned poetry study.
The reality of retirement is such a new feeling and being able to attempt a lot of new creative ideas is wonderful. You and your readers are inspirational – so, again, missed you lately. LOVE your visual journal entry – said a lot, lot, lot!
xoxoxSS