Self-Coaching Questions:

1. Who are some of “the ones” you have created for in the past? Bring names and faces to mind of those who have shared how much your creative work impacted them. Spend time being grateful for each of them. 

2. Now flip it— think of someone you have been “the one” for. Remember the first time you heard the Nutcracker or encountered a work of art that truly changed everything. What if that artist had given up right before they hit send or said yes? Spend some time being grateful for those artists and those moments in your creative life. 

3. Jonathan Jones said “…art’s story is not a trajectory of ascent, but more of a looping spiral, constantly retracing its steps.” If this is the case, look at your current artistic practice and consider the overlap you share with artists of other times and places. What styles have you learned, borrowed, rediscovered, or made your own? How else are you connected to artists throughout time? 

This (and last) week’s music featured Marnie Laird on piano, performing Debussy, Beethoven, and Brahms, as well as a Menuet from a Bach Cello Suite arranged by Cicely Parnas performed by her with Patrick Laird and Christine Lamprea for Brooklyn Classical.  Our theme song is by Angela Sheik. All recordings used with permission.

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