something i stole from a friend. if you're an artist, you can definitely relate:
Century Old Creative Advice
I found this article on the Behance Network’s think tank, the99percent.com site. These are short excerpts from a series of letters written to an aspiring writer by one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, Rainer Maria Rilke right around the turn of the century. Powerful insights about patience and difficulty that still apply 100 years later.
Rilke on the role of patience
“Always trust yourself and your own feeling, as opposed to argumentations, discussion, or introductions of that sort; if it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights. Allow your judgments their own silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened. Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come to completion, entirely in itself, in the dark, in the unsayable, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one’s own understanding, and with deep humility and patience to wait for the hour when a new clarity is born: this alone is what it means to live as an artist: in understanding as in creating.
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!”
Rilke on embracing difficulty
“If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
FINALLY!
Hello everyone!
Sorry that it has been two months since I've updated this blog but I haven't had the chance to really sit down and write and I just didn't want to type something short and it be totally useless but now that I have two months under my belt, I have stuff to talk about!
Where to start? I think that's the question. I think I left off in Canada. Right before I came home from break we were playing Canada for a week. To me, it was an inconvenience. I couldn't use my phone, I had to withdraw money because the currency is different and it wasn't that great. However, I did go into Toronto for a day and that was awesome. We get to play Toronto in the spring so hopefully, I'll get to go back and explore a heck of a lot more than what I got to do. And then on the 20th of December, I flew HOME! And of course, the first thing that I did was get In and Out. Duh. That is like a given. I ate everything that I couldn't eat when I'm on the road like Portos, and awesome mexican food so I definitely gained weight but I don't care, it was AWESOME.
My time at home was short though. I was only there for a week and pretty much every day I was up around 7 or 8am trying to get things done. Plus, my body was so used to east coast time that I really didn't adjust very well. But I got everything I needed to get done and spent time with my family and got to see some friends. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see everyone because of the short trip so if I missed you I am sorry but you can always come out and see me :)
I flew back on the 28th into Boston because we were playing Worcester and one of the girls on my tour lives really close to Worcester and was kind enough to let me stay at her house. So I was there for a week and celebrated New Years at an awesome place called The Citizen and it was themed a 1920's speakeasy so it was really cool. I've never done something like that before so it was great to try something new. On sunday night, my friend Jess and I along with a couple other friends drove down to her house in New Jersey where we spent a couple days at her house which was AWESOME. She kind of lives in the middle of nowhere so that was an experience to my california upbringing but I can now say that I attempted to shoot a bow and arrow :) I held it at least because it was heavy. It was like 40 pounds and yeah, I definitely couldn't shoot it but I had fun at least. On tuesday, I got to go into New York City for the day and that was awesome because everyone knows I love New York. I got to eat and shop and met up with my friend Lital because she moved there in September and catch up with her which was AMAZING. And now I am back to work in Hershey, PA where my hotel smells like chocolate :)
For some reason, when New Years rolled around, it didn't feel like a new year for me. And when I look back on it, 2010 was such a roller coaster of a year because big things happened to me. I graduated college, moved back home, got my first job which takes me away from home and I guess I thought that adjustment was going to be easier because I've always been fine with adjusting. Apparently NOT. hahahahaha but overall, I am doing something pretty awesome and it has given me great friends, good memories and something to look forward to every week when I get into a new city.
One thing that I know that I would like to work on in the new year is letting go. I apparently have a hard time letting go of things and taking things personally and I am the type of person that likes to reflect on things and analyze the SHIT out of it which is not good for my mentality but I think being conscientious about it and knowing that that is the type of person I am, I can learn how to control it. I also have to remember that I am human and that I am going to make mistakes and I have to learn how to be okay with that and not get mad at myself when things don't go a certain way or how I think they are suppose to go. In any situation, I am not going to get answers to everything and that's life. I have to learn how to let go, move on and learn from what situation I've been place in and accept that I will be somehow be stronger in the end. Someone once told me that I have to take the pain of the lesson, regroup and thrive. And I whole heartedly believe that.
Being on this tour has let me learn all of these things that I am ranting about right now. And I know that I wouldn't be learning about myself if it weren't for these experiences and wonderful people around me. When I have a bad day, which I do, a lot (hehehe), I remind myself of what I am doing and why I am here and who is around me and it makes me feel better because I don't really have anything to complain about. I don't want to focus on the petty and dumb things and miss out on what is right in front of me because tour is flying by really fast. So here's to the new year and focusing on the finer things in life and living it.
here's a quote that I found which I love and I want to share with you all:
Go into 2011 expecting more than what 2010 gave you.
until next time...hopefully it won't be two months later.
xoxo,
frannie
Sorry that it has been two months since I've updated this blog but I haven't had the chance to really sit down and write and I just didn't want to type something short and it be totally useless but now that I have two months under my belt, I have stuff to talk about!
Where to start? I think that's the question. I think I left off in Canada. Right before I came home from break we were playing Canada for a week. To me, it was an inconvenience. I couldn't use my phone, I had to withdraw money because the currency is different and it wasn't that great. However, I did go into Toronto for a day and that was awesome. We get to play Toronto in the spring so hopefully, I'll get to go back and explore a heck of a lot more than what I got to do. And then on the 20th of December, I flew HOME! And of course, the first thing that I did was get In and Out. Duh. That is like a given. I ate everything that I couldn't eat when I'm on the road like Portos, and awesome mexican food so I definitely gained weight but I don't care, it was AWESOME.
My time at home was short though. I was only there for a week and pretty much every day I was up around 7 or 8am trying to get things done. Plus, my body was so used to east coast time that I really didn't adjust very well. But I got everything I needed to get done and spent time with my family and got to see some friends. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see everyone because of the short trip so if I missed you I am sorry but you can always come out and see me :)
I flew back on the 28th into Boston because we were playing Worcester and one of the girls on my tour lives really close to Worcester and was kind enough to let me stay at her house. So I was there for a week and celebrated New Years at an awesome place called The Citizen and it was themed a 1920's speakeasy so it was really cool. I've never done something like that before so it was great to try something new. On sunday night, my friend Jess and I along with a couple other friends drove down to her house in New Jersey where we spent a couple days at her house which was AWESOME. She kind of lives in the middle of nowhere so that was an experience to my california upbringing but I can now say that I attempted to shoot a bow and arrow :) I held it at least because it was heavy. It was like 40 pounds and yeah, I definitely couldn't shoot it but I had fun at least. On tuesday, I got to go into New York City for the day and that was awesome because everyone knows I love New York. I got to eat and shop and met up with my friend Lital because she moved there in September and catch up with her which was AMAZING. And now I am back to work in Hershey, PA where my hotel smells like chocolate :)
For some reason, when New Years rolled around, it didn't feel like a new year for me. And when I look back on it, 2010 was such a roller coaster of a year because big things happened to me. I graduated college, moved back home, got my first job which takes me away from home and I guess I thought that adjustment was going to be easier because I've always been fine with adjusting. Apparently NOT. hahahahaha but overall, I am doing something pretty awesome and it has given me great friends, good memories and something to look forward to every week when I get into a new city.
One thing that I know that I would like to work on in the new year is letting go. I apparently have a hard time letting go of things and taking things personally and I am the type of person that likes to reflect on things and analyze the SHIT out of it which is not good for my mentality but I think being conscientious about it and knowing that that is the type of person I am, I can learn how to control it. I also have to remember that I am human and that I am going to make mistakes and I have to learn how to be okay with that and not get mad at myself when things don't go a certain way or how I think they are suppose to go. In any situation, I am not going to get answers to everything and that's life. I have to learn how to let go, move on and learn from what situation I've been place in and accept that I will be somehow be stronger in the end. Someone once told me that I have to take the pain of the lesson, regroup and thrive. And I whole heartedly believe that.
Being on this tour has let me learn all of these things that I am ranting about right now. And I know that I wouldn't be learning about myself if it weren't for these experiences and wonderful people around me. When I have a bad day, which I do, a lot (hehehe), I remind myself of what I am doing and why I am here and who is around me and it makes me feel better because I don't really have anything to complain about. I don't want to focus on the petty and dumb things and miss out on what is right in front of me because tour is flying by really fast. So here's to the new year and focusing on the finer things in life and living it.
here's a quote that I found which I love and I want to share with you all:
Go into 2011 expecting more than what 2010 gave you.
until next time...hopefully it won't be two months later.
xoxo,
frannie
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