Quote of the day:
Annie: I haven’t ridden Western before.
Tom Booker: Yeah. But he doesn’t know that. Just sit the horse. — The Horse Whisperer
Moon in the Early Morning Sky
I’ve been working hard on putting together my second photo exhibit. It has taken me a long while to get going on this exhibit. From picking the photos I would use, selecting a theme, or planning and sending out information on the opening party, I drug my feet. In the beginning it felt too big. I didn’t know where to start. Just thinking about putting together a new exhibit brought all sorts of resistance to the surface. I told myself, “I don’t have enough new work that’s good enough. It’s not worth the effort. No one will come to this show because all of my friends showed up for the last one. It’s too much to bother for them to come to another opening.”
Even before I recognized all these thoughts as just another bout of resistance raising it’s ugly head, I started working on the show despite all of my negative thoughts. At first everything I did felt like slogging through the mud. I reviewed photos, started collecting possibilities, and measured the space in the coffee shop. But it felt like it just wasn’t going to work. I felt as if I didn’t know how to pull this exhibit together.
Despite the resistance, each step I took brought me closer to a vision of myself putting up another exhibit. Finally on Monday I was able to transcend the inertia of resistance and move joyfully into the creative flow. I could feel the creative juices flowing. One step led to another and to yet another until I had finished selecting all of the photos for the show, editing and printing most of the photos, framed all but the last two photos, and planned the layout of the photos.
What began as a “just do it whether you feel like it or not” turned into a creative dance that transformed my dread of putting on another exhibit into excitement about the process. May you find joy and a creative dance in your work. “Just sit the horse,” and soon you will be galloping.
Another Early Morning Moon Photo
Autumn Rose
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