Day 380 Art Meditation, April 23, 2024

I just spent a week’s worth of mornings writing my essay for my May Art Drop Video - for all of 4 pages. It was one of the most vulnerable, mentally exhausting things I’ve ever done. I feel like I came through something and it was worth it. I feel lighter now. So does G.

My art print for today is “Be Vulnerable”, by which I mean the Vulnerability of building our heart-spaces. I try to do this with my art meditations. To find that fulfillment, I have to spend time getting grounded into my words and art. 

Also, for our Heart-spaces: “Confuse your logical mind. (That’s your Heart-Space). Then use both.”

I love the writings of Anne Lamott because she has Jesus qualities, in a way that Jesus might never have healing for me. In Anne Lamott’s  book ‘Bird by Bird’, she  explains:

“Annie Dillard has said that day by day you have to give the work before you all the best stuff you have, not saving it up for later projects. If you give freely, there will always be more…

… You are going to have to give and give and give, or there’s no reason to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward.”

I know I’m not the only person for whom ‘Giving’ is something I really only know how to do for other people, and I do it so well. I also love doing it. I don’t think I have plans to give it up, just for now while I commit to my creative plans …What her ‘Giving’ section unearthed for me is to reject the judgment against me that my journey is selfish in a bad way. That I am giving TO my writing and art. To write 4 pages over the course of 7 days, meant to go into my heart over and over again, deeper and deeper.

I love my beloved former life coach’s words to me when we first started years ago, “Yes. It IS all about you. You have no idea yet how much it IS all about you.” 

I’ve added Anne Lamott onto my parent team, making it 6, although I am aware that she is yet another imaginary, one-sided relationship in my life. I am aware of this and working on it… Her parental superpower is that she loves that I am writing an art memoir. 

I’m late for Earth Day, but sending photos of my walks and the driving I do for work: the ocean, breezes, flowers, sand, teal and green waters, and blue blue blue sky. All of which I will use for my photography art.  

Check out my online annehunsicker.com SHOP - photography art, Advent calendar and Cookie-of-the-Month.

O, one more thing, what I love (!) about my clunky phrasing for my art, I imagine the little toddler-me trying to help the world. Children come up with better ideas than adults do sometimes, cutting to the chase - “why don’t we all just love each other?” I somehow feel like I’m tapping into that little-girl-me when I write these messages. 

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Love, 

Anne

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