The War of Art, written by Steven Pressfield, shows the reader how to break through blocks and win inner creative battles. The first chapter, Book One, is titled Resistance, Defining the Enemy. He writes of several activities that elicit resistance – creative endeavors, courses developed to overcome a habit, continuing education, the decision to change for the better, run a marathon, etc. Given he’s dedicated several pages to the psychology of creation, I’m not alone with my head of ideas. And potential battles. Sometimes these ideas remain virtual and smolder, others end up so convoluted that I lose the original genesis, but then there are the ideas that carry tremendous energy and fire and insist on life. Those ideas end up as sketches on any close by piece of paper, because if you wait just a second longer to capture the idea, it takes off again like a dancing butterfly. Enter my journal, Empty Your Head. I took some chunky, rough hewn typography and distressed it more by integrating handwritten, textured type, added the heart, and the tern (I love shore birds and these guys are fun to draw) and had it printed on fibrous, natural, recycled paper. The inside pages are simply white – waiting for you to empty your head, too. The snap shot of my journal is offset by words…words that came from my book. As I finish the final edits, I am ecstatic that I emptied my head.
This is my donation to Happy 40th Birthday Earth Day, a month-long celebration of people, pets and the planet. I gave my journal as a give-away, and my time in designing the poster. Del Harley not only birthed the idea, she included the community – fabulous, innovative, green products by equally fabulous companies are being given away free at the end of April. Find out more by going to your local Manatee County Starbucks and enter to win. Get my journal, get involved, be victorious in your idea.
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