{"id":1675,"date":"2013-06-30T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2013-06-30T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T18:21:59","slug":"an-incomplete-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/30\/an-incomplete-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"An Incomplete Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1676\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/151-journals.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1676\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1676\" alt=\"ears and years of journals and sketchbooks. The first started when I was 18 all the way up to a current book of ideas.\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/151-journals.jpg?resize=576%2C432\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Years and years of journals and sketchbooks. The first started when I was 18 all the way up to a book of current ideas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Hello dear readers, I haven\u2019t forgotten about you.\u00a0 It has been several weeks and many miles since my last blog post but now I\u2019m back in ordinary time swaying between computer screen and studio time.\u00a0 One of my summer endeavors is to do some sorting and packing and moving along of stuff, too much stuff, both in my home and studio.\u00a0 I find it especially hard to get rid of things in my studio, I might need that scrap of fabric, or dab of paste, I might want that old poster to cut up or weathered wood to work on, but space is limited and I find my creativity and my inner calm hampered by the clutter, so I sort.\u00a0 In the save pile I have a stack journals and sketchbooks.\u00a0 Not one of these is filled from cover to cover save for one plein air sketchbook (perhaps I should pay attention to that, but not for this post).\u00a0 Most of these journals were started at the beginning or end of something.\u00a0 Most detail love lost, or angst, or love and angst. One journal begins with being dumped but doesn\u2019t continue on to brighter days of self-confidence and satisfaction.\u00a0 Another little book begins with a lovely inscription from my husband at the beginning of our infertility journey.\u00a0 He gave me the journal to help me\u00a0 during the daunting and rigorous infertility process, and a fine idea it was.\u00a0 But reading back I find that I journal the journey through only 3 of the 7 unsuccessful tries and not a note about the triumphant 8<sup>th<\/sup> and semi miraculous try that led to birth of our most amazing, gift of a son, Ivan. Some future reader thumbing these pages at a yard sale will find a picture of a woman of dark countenance and even darker future.\u00a0 But it isn\u2019t so! Here I am, bright and shiny and filled with the joy of living. I just want to get that on the record. Until I sat down to write about these fragmentary texts stacked in my studio, I didn\u2019t realize that this blog right here is my latest journal attempt, I am inching up to three years on this commitment! I will admit there are times when I\u2019m not sure why I\u2019m blogging, I have had confused conversations with people trying to describe the purpose of my blog. Many people want to know if there is a financial or career motive to my blogging.\u00a0 I would have to say there is no economic reason to blog and it\u2019s debatable if there is any career advancing reason to blog.\u00a0 But here I am confessing to you.\u00a0 Ugh I\u2019ve done it again, by blogging my thoughts I\u2019ve come to the root of it. Perhaps it\u2019s a confessional!? I\u2019m not catholic, I fancy myself something of a christianbuddistpagen, but this act of writing to you, confessing to you, my desire to share something of my misgivings and transgressions with you as well as my triumphs and discoveries, is motivational. In the past when I kept a journal it was very insulated and internal, no editing for comsuption and so the thoughts are incomplete, bitter and bruised. But the act of blogging, has been a boiling down, a making of jam, taking the tart fruit and sugar of my life and adding the the spice and tang of you my subscribers, stirring and cooking, stirring and cooking, until a sweet concoction is achieved. So thank you for being out there in the ether, in the cloud, across the interweb, and down the street. I\u2019ll keep at it if you\u2019ll come with me to keep me honest.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to hear your experiences, struggles and successes, with journaling and blogging, how does it work and what does it mean to you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello dear readers, I haven\u2019t forgotten about you.\u00a0 It has been several weeks and many miles since my last blog post but now I\u2019m back in ordinary time swaying between computer screen and studio time.\u00a0 One of my summer endeavors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,88],"tags":[186,236,462,463],"class_list":["post-1675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","tag-blogging","tag-cleaning-house","tag-journaling","tag-journals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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