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Originally Posted by DivaLion  Monique,
First of all, your photos are beautiful!
And two thoughts for you:
There's a photo artist I follow on LiveJournal who posts a photo every day that is for sale. She has some she sells only one print of, and others she'll do however many prints people order. I don't know how much of her living she makes this way, but I've seen a number of "SOLD!" tags on her posts, so she at least sells some of her work. LJ, Flickr/Picasa, and PayPal are all free to set up. I'm just sayin'. =)
Also, if you can get your hands on a copy of Paulo Coelho's novel The Witch of Portobello, I think it'll give you a whole new appreciation for teaching. I was struggling with preparing some workshops I was about to teach when I read that book, and I found myself drifting off the page regularly because my mind had started whirring with new insights and ideas based on what I read. I'll paraphrase one of the most relevant quotes for you: "But how can I teach that? I don't know anything about it." "If you teach only what you already know, then how will you learn anything from it?" |
Thanks so much for sharing your story in the later post as well as for the advice. I'm really glad you enjoyed the pics! I am working on letting my insecurities go and focusing on the process of creating the work.
Even though it makes sense, putting my energy into creative outlets was never really encouraged as I grew up. My brother and I did hard manual labor that we both hated for very little in return. In a way I've been doing the same thing with jobs.
I've decided that I'm not to set up an interview for another call center job and it's such a relief.. Perhaps this is the lesson I've missed the last two times it's come up in my life and the reason it keeps coming up.
What Steve was explaining about the freedom (in more ways than one) just being in nature provides it is something I too value a great deal.. a great deal more than wasting my life away in cubicle in the middle of hundreds of other miserable people.
I'll look into the resources you suggested and begin to put more energy into doing what I like to do.. and opening my horizons. Both yours and Steve's stories have been very inspiring.
Take Care!