My cure for a grumpy mood- watch figure skating :)
August 3, 2007 at 11:56 pm | In Katia Gordeeva, figure skating, journal entries | Leave a CommentI’ve been a fan of figure skating since I was a little girl. There is just something about the graceful artistry of ice skating that satisfies something deep in my soul. It’s so beautiful & elegant, so light and free; like flying. I often use to daydream about flying across the ice. Since I’ve gotten married (2005) I haven’t had much time to watch figure skating. Other things in life just seem to take precedence . I didn’t realize just how much I’ve missed it until last night when I happened to come across a skating show I’d taped from tv in 2001. I don’t really know how it ended up mixed in with our other videos. All my other skating tapes are in storage. But there it was. I put it on and was immediately reminded of how much I love to watch that sport. Everything about figure skating is beautiful to me. I admire the slim, lean, athletic yet feminine bodies of the female skaters and the strength & flexibility of the men. I love the sultry jazz & uplifting classical music the skaters often skate to. Most of all I just love the beauty of their movements across the ice, as they glide and twirl, leap and sway to the music. It’s perfection. Nothing relaxes me more than to watch good figure skating. So here are a few of my favorite skating videos, to remind myself to take time to enjoy beauty.
The incomparable pairs team, Katia Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov:
The lovely and oh so graceful Yuka Sato
A very sexy, strong Kurt Browning
The exquisite Katia Gordeeva on her own
A golden moment with Michelle Kwan
Developing your creative spirit
August 1, 2007 at 10:20 pm | In journal entries | Leave a CommentHow does someone learn to be an artist, to develop their creativity and aesthetic sense? It frustrates me so much to have all these feelings, dreams, thoughts that I want to express but I can’t get them to come out properly when I try my hand at something creative. Since early childhood I’ve felt as if I should be creating something, that I was meant to be an artist of some kind. I think I was given a creative soul but that God forgot to give me the talent I’d need to express that creativity. Maybe my problem is that I’m a perfectionist at heart. I expect to immediately be good at things when in fact it takes time to develop these skills.
I keep reminding myself of these quotes:
“Every artist was first an amateur.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. “-Scott Adams
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success just to be one.“-Charles Horton Cooley
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.”-M. C. Escher
“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. “-Vincent Van Gogh
“You don’t know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It’s all in the practice.“-Lauryn Hill
“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.“-Erica Jong
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