I should do Day 5 already. Ive been stalling. OK, Day 5 of the Judith Levitt challenge to say 3 positive things about myself over 5 days. 1. I am a really good hugger. I know that some people dont like Huggers, but I am not talking about being one of Them. Im just saying that I give real hugs—NOT those A-frame lean-ins where maybe collar bones touch and a pat-pat-pat tapping on the back ensues before the pseudo-embrace ends. (Ooooh. I didnt realize how much hostility I felt toward those other sorts of hugs/huggers until I wrote this! Interesting!) 2. I am a thinker—that is, I think deeply about things. I keep exploring, asking myself questions, examining my thoughts. This often yields personal insights that I value and want to share and that at least a few of my friends take an interest in hearing/discussing (yay friends! you know who you are!). Of course, this ability is partially due to a tendency to overthink, which can be counterproductive. But by and large I am glad that I dont settle for the superficial or even the initial or secondary explanation for things. It is gratifying to make discoveries about myself and others and maybe even the nature of life—or at least to think that I am making such discoveries. 3. Now, for the predictable one I have been avoiding: I am a competent painter/artist. I cannot bring myself to say good because those artists I consider to be truly good/incredible— Rose Frantzen, Chuck Morris, and Richard Halstead, for example—are so far out of my league as to make my work look like Lucky Platter (read: garage sale) art by comparison. (Check out their paintings!) What I can say for myself, though, is that when I paint people I often manage to convey something about their character, or emotional state, or the grooves life has worn into them. I am pleased with that and with how much fun I have seeing and using color when I paint. I am also pleased with the fact that I am continuing to improve as an artist, which makes the end result a little more gratifying these days even if my paintings still fall short of my hopes for them when I begin. Finally, I consider myself pretty lucky to be able to say all this and to be able to say that the art studio feels like home. So, as I conclude this 5-day experiment, Id like to say thank you to Judith Levitt for challenging me to do this. Yay! Done! I now nominate Carole Murphy-Woolford, John Murphy-Woolford, and Sarah Goo to tackle this challenge: write three positive things about yourself once a day for five days (these dont have to be consecutive days) and, at the end of each days posting, name three other people to tackle the same thing. Ready? Set? Go! (BTW, dont forget to tag me somewhere in each post so that I know when they go up and can read them! )
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 17:10:16 +0000
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