Reality Blogging
Posted on February 23, 2010 - Filed Under Real Life
Today I have four friends in medical crisis. I am the kind of person who takes that to heart, and my mother would describe me as “acutely sensitive”. When you are made out of one kind of material, it is impossible to imagine that all of humankind does not share that makeup, but I am finally getting that I am unlike most people. When you toss emotional bombs, and I take them seriously. A few months ago a friend wrote and said her husband “was yet again on a downward spiral and she was considering divorce”. I immediately wrote back with alarm and said “what does this mean????”. The next time I heard from her was just a few days ago when she sent me a cheerful flyer about selling their house. Are we meant to spin our spirals into cheerfulness?
Here is where I am going with this: does it truly serve the world if I take up Happy Talk, here on my blog? Should I just be showing you all how to make art, and keep my personal life to myself? That has been suggested by a few of you out there, and I really don’t like the idea. The point of art making, at least the biggest point for me, is healing. Working it out with beauty, and my hands. It is all about the content for me, not the pretty doodad.
Many things are very funny, and I love to laugh. Ten year old boys are funny, you should get you one. This is the balance for the brain tumors and the burn unit. Gotta have this.
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You should write what you want to write about because a blog is personal. And I can’t imagine your art or your teaching skills separate from your humanity, Jill.
Wasn’t it Carole King that said, “You’ve got to take the bitter with the sweet” ?
Guess we’re cut from similar cloth – life is about laughter and tears, sometimes at the same time.
Your blog is a gift from your heart, that’s what makes it worth checking into every so often. There are many silly sweet blogs that do not talk about life’s balance and they are not worth reading.
Reading about your friend, Nancy, helps me remember to enjoy everything right now. I”ll keep her laughing image in mind and hope she has many happy days again soon.
I have a very good friend who had a brain tumor which luckily was caught early. She was left deaf in one ear but remains very grqateful to be here with us. I am grateful we continue to share our art adventures!!
I recently was gifted enough to run across these books ‘The Highly Sensitive Person’ by Elaine Aron and ‘Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person’ by Barrie Jaeger. We are 20% of the population and the books are validating and enlightening. We care and feel all emotions deeply. I would rather read real life.
To expound a bit on my Facebook comment…keep it real. Your blog has never been just about art. It’s been about you, and what your art does for you and, consequently, how all your blog-readers can use art in their own personal lives. I lived for 32 years in a family that kept everything to themselves and was almost crushed under the weight of all the elephants in the room. There’s joy in everything, even the bad stuff we all have to face from time to time. It helps us all to be able to explore those paths with you.
My blog is hardly ever about my art. Now, I am an unusually cheerful person, and it shows in my blog entries. And that is me, 99% of the time, and I’ve been that way for my whole life. But that is not everyone! You need to write what YOU feel, Jill, good, bad or indifferent! I’m a huge fan of your blog because it shows who YOU are. Rock on, sister!