I would like to say thank you to everyone that commented on my last post, Motivation, Inspiration and chocolate, Send all three. Your kind and thoughtful comments worked, as they always do and I am feeling much better.
I was trying to explain blogs and blogging to a classmate yesterday. Explaining the functionality and the versatility of a blog as a platform for marketing yourself as an artist was easy.
But when I tried to explain the sense of community and the friendships that are formed via blogging I could tell that I had lost her.
In the lead up to Mum’s funeral the phone had rung off the hook and I found it very exhausting, there was a lot of tension within the immediate family as Veronica and I tried to do what Mum had asked us to do. Mum had left explicit instructions for her funeral and by following Mum’s instructions, Veronica and I became the focus for my brother and uncle’s anger and grief.
My story isn’t unique. My pain was my own but my story was very similar to a lot of your stories and via this blog you shared your stories with me, comforted me and gave me the support that I needed to keep on going.
This is part of the reason why I have my ceramic giveaways. It is a giving back to you my readers, my online friends.But it is also my way of asking for your help again, asking you to comfort me when I need it, asking you to help get my creative juices flowing again by thinking about your ideas for my work. Your comment could be the one that inspires a whole series of work, so please go and comment if you haven’t already and remember that you can comment more than once.
I sat outside in the sun on Thursday and spent all morning making pots. Only one pot actually worked but the process of experimentation was a good one. As I was working the clay my mind wandered off in tangents, I thought about your different ideas, some of them are far beyond my basic talents but most of them are very doable. All of them have given me something.
Your comments on my camera quandry post helped me as well even though I am still dithering. One day I have decided on a high zoom compact camera and the next day it seems a DSLR is the way to go. I will keep you posted.
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Ooooh, I love being the first to comment! Even if I don’t have anything of substance to say. At all. Except that I really get that about bloggy friends and support and connection. xoxo
Oh my gawd @ that sunset!! If it is any consolation I now know why they don’t sell Hershey’s where you are at: hint, look at the postage on your package. Or better yet don’t! LOL After arguing with the post office dude and telling him I just wanted to send the package and not actually ship myself to personally deliver it, I asked when I could expect it to arrive. His response? A week and a half to ten days. Doh! Glad you are doing better!
Glad your feeling better. Still sending some (hugs) for those harder days.
Seriously, Kim, with photos like that, who needs a church or organised religion?
Bliss.
I understand why you have the giveaways, but I find it really hard to comment on a giveaway post when someone is asking what I want. Maybe I just don’t like feeling grabby?
Of course, you’re different and I can boss you into making me what I want (pretty blue sky cups please!), but I can understand why some people haven’t commented.
That said, it’s not always the comment that win that inspires you to do a whole series of work and having the internet about to brainstorm with and to hold your hand and talk about what they’d like is fantastic.
So yeah, go Internet! Inspire away!
(Now go comment on her post. I have some of her work and it’s lucious)
Love the cheeky little bird.
The internet is an amazing place. I had no idea of the sense of community you can find in the internet until I started blogging and slowly but surely began to find like-minded people’s blogs to read and they started to read mine. And then, when things started to go a bit wrong with the boy, I suddenly realised that actually these people were my friends as well.
It’s quite humbling really.
As is your amazing sunset pic – wow!
Sometimes just the act of creating is enough.
If giving your work away soothes you, then by all means, do what is in your heart 🙂
I understand what Veronica is saying; I don’t like thinking about me, me, me, me when that’s what my post is always about. And when a fellow blogger is feeling down, it’s hard to bring my mind around to :OH think about ME some MORE.
I know your work is wonderful, and they would be cherished pieces. I’m just more of a mind to want you feeling the release that creating brings. Not the looming deadline of something.
If you need the motivation; create some well worn birdie blue plates.
I would love to see what you come up with 😉
Cute little gray birds! David wonders, are they flycatchers? They have a knowing look about them. Hearing about your work makes me wish I were an artist!
My son used to talk about his friends on the internet and I could never understand what he meant and would say to him ‘but you don’t know these people’. Now I understand! even though I don’t blog I have made friends in this community who are important to me and though I may never meet them in ‘real’ life this is just fine. I have met one of my internet friends, and stayed at her place in Melbourne for several days, and she was just the same off-line as she is on-line! Waiting for her to visit me now 😉
Glad you have located your inspiration and have started making things again. Love the pictures. The colours in the bird photo are so subtle and soothing and the sunset is totally glorious.
I’m glad you’re feeling better Kim! Friendships through blogging are hard to understand if you’re not a blogger. But it’s there alright. Hugs xxx
I’m a bit late, but I’m sending you healing thoughts for the storm that has passed and the rumbling that may continue to echo.
Giving away that which you make is freeing. It is often our best expression of ourselves.
I like Winter’s comment. Reading your previous post and this one makes me think of my Mum and tears of course begin again! I didn’t want to read the ‘motivation’ post as I knew it would have that affect on me – but I have now and it did :(.
I will soon be seeing my Mum again – next week – (and it could be for the last time, which I seem to say every time – she’s just so darn strong willed!) Yes it’s good have bloggie friends .. you all help .. makes one stronger, I think.
Love your little grey birdies and all the colours in that photo – and of course that glorious sunset