THIMGAN HAYDEN’S BLOG
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Love Story, Love Art
In addition to painting, I love reading and growing plants. I used to read a lot when I was young. My backup career ideas as a teen were Library Science and English Literature. Like some of you may have, I quit reading fiction when I got BUSY. A few years ago, my mom gave me a hardcover copy of “I Capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith (who also wrote the original 101 Dalmatians story and hit plays for the London stage), and I got re-hooked!
On Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Big Magic”
She goes on to describe her encounters with the creative spirit. She experiences an Idea as an entity that comes knocking, asking for you to help bring it to life, and if you pass on its offer, it’ll visit someone else. She has some examples from her own life that are fascinating enough for you to go read them yourself. Again, after getting over the strangeness of the concept, I had to agree that I have felt that sort of “magic” in my own life.