A Venturous View

I consider myself curious, and greatly value that quality, as it leads me to new places, ideas and experience. Though primarily a visual artist, I have been drawn to writing for some time, and have been journaling for most of my adult years. Some years ago I published a sort of Blog about my experiences during my father's final illness called "Gifts of the Goddess." It was a wonderful collision of words and dreams and catharsis and imagery at a tumultuous time. It's no longer up on the web... I may dust it off at some point and see how it looks, now 5 years on. At that time, there weren't the profusion of Blog sites, and I made pages in html "by hand" - making my own navigation buttons laboriously in PageMill, and ancient web page technology once sold by Adobe. As my skills are visual, not technical, it was a bit klutzy to operate, but it turns out to have been a bit of foresight. Look at all the amazing, entertaining, obnoxious, boring and funny Blogs now available, and the lovely, easy publishing sites like Blogger to facilitate them!

So, as to this new effort, I will jump into the fray with my own skewed personal opinions, rants, obsessions and observations, for what it's worth. We'll see where it goes. Some of this material has been written over the past 7-8 months using the practise of Morning Pages, as descibed in detail in Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way." I highly reccommend that book and others of hers to anyone looking to enhance their creative life.

Blessings for a Beautiful Day!

~Ven