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How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art

I suspect this question is so deeply personal that it’s like a fingerprint: each of us will respond from the life conditions that have shaped each of us, and shape us still.

There is strong folklore about the value of the suffering artist to her art; that dark times allow for greatness. Personally, I’m not so sure it’s a useful way to look at suffering.

I suspect some of us are (more…)

How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?

A covid-19 Moment In My Life

It’s chilly in my New England writing studio this afternoon, April 10, in the Year of covid-19.

Ariane Goodwin studio wood stoveGrey skies, intermittent snowflake-hail showers, tree limbs still bare and bent by the wind.  Perhaps it’s time to rev up my fake, gas-fed wood stove, minus the quintessential smell of oak drying in the basket as wood smoke snaked out of the cast-iron door no matter how quickly I tried to shut it.

 

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