{"id":1141,"date":"2015-07-09T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T19:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2016-09-30T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T16:11:33","slug":"it-took-me-30-years-and-6-months-to-write-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/it-took-me-30-years-and-6-months-to-write-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"It took me 30 years and 6 months to write this blog…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been curious and wondering\u00a0how I would\u00a0get back onto the blogging horse after abruptly falling off several months ago. Painful. Not majorly painful…not like many losses in life can be…certainly not life altering…yet perhaps each of us in our own way can relate to the leaving of something and then not being able to pick up the lost momentum. I call it the ‘inertia of trying’…we can’t seem to get any traction. We ‘lose interest’, we ‘get busy’. So it isn’t the loss of writing and posting per se it’s what is represented in the letting something drop and then another and then another and soon we have no fire. No fire equals no passion..it’s summer time and it’s timely to be HOT.<\/p>\n

So back in\u00a0April when 4.5 years of regular blog posts on my topic of creatively ‘Following the Moon’ disappeared I took a pause.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is enough of a non-attachment gene in me (I’ve been a student of Tibetan Buddhism for decades and some of the practices and teachings\u00a0have rooted deep into my cellular memory), that I made the decision to let that chapter\u00a0be done. Finished.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then June 16 began\u00a0Alyson Stanfield<\/a>‘s Creative Content Camp …I signed on! I am lifted up every time I work with Alyson and it felt like the best, the perfect time to get support for the passion of my art\/life. Now that I’m engaged with a focused tribe of like-minds I’m\u00a0feeling like I can climb back onto\u00a0that blog horse once again!\u00a0Thanks Alyson and all in CCC!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"mounthorse\"<\/a>It was by taking Alyson’s\u00a0blogging workshop, Blog Triage, with \u00a0Cynthia Morris<\/a> in 2010 that I truly took on the discipline of writing and also migrated my content from 5 years on Google Blogger over to Word Press. I’m very grateful to once again be following the artbiz coach\u00a0guidance regaining a balanced focus that includes regularly writing in this format.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am one who, once the commitment is made, follows through until the end of time …the time of ‘the end’ …the opportunity for release and then eventually ceremonial closure.<\/span><\/p>\n

LOOKING\u00a0BACK<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

In my renewed commitment to write and to post about living the art\/life (richly infused with well being) it seemed timely\u00a0to let the pendulum swing…so in this blog I will move a bit back in time honoring foundations as I revisit my program: ‘Having Lunch with the Masters’ and my first personal creative coaching sessions from 19 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

LOOKING AHEAD<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

I’ll also look forward exploring the world\u00a0of the\u00a0new small works and writing studio located on 50 regrowth acres in the geographical center of Virginia known as\u00a0the Piedmont. I spend an average of one week each month ‘on retreat’ and the voluntary simplicity of the the off-the-grid setting provides a very different creative opportunity that\u00a0\u00a0I’m learning to appreciate and will share with you …it’s a window into a world of whip-o-wills and tree frogs, bear and burgeoning life-force a\u00a03 hour drive from my main studio in Virginia Beach.<\/span><\/p>\n

CURRENT EVENTS<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

I’ll also look forward to posting about current events in the studio… right now I’m gearing up for teaching summer studios at Virginia MOCA<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

it feels good to be back in the blogging saddle once again. Oh and about my title for this post…I happen to have recently accomplished a goal…that I’ll be blogging about that actually did take me 30 years and 6 months to bring to fruition and it made me consider how the art\/life is like that…falling down and getting back up again and keep on keepin’ on until ‘suddenly’ looking around we see…oh. I’m here. And there is no where I would rather be…30 years and 6 months later.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What in your art\/life has given you the opportunity to begin again? <\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

How much commitment has it taken for you to get back in the saddle and stay put? <\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

Are you willing to take a stand on your own behalf and\u00a0go the distance?<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Be the first to leave me a comment…remember I lost every one I ever had… and don’t forget to subscribe…I lost record of all of you who were signed up before…it’s all about beginning again…<\/span><\/h4>\n

let’s\u00a0trail ride together…<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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