December 14, 1999

From the Artist's Way:

List five people you admire. Now list five people you secretly admire. Don't take too much time for this, just list them quickly. Then go through each person and make a list of what qualities you admire in that person. Look at the list. Are these qualities that you see in yourself? That you aspire too? That you are afraid of or shy about?

2. Imagine if you could have five lives that are different than the one you are living now; what would you do? Now list five more. Again, don't think too hard about these, just write down what comes to mind. What attracts you to each? Are there bits and pieces of each that you are doing now? That you could start doing?





Qualities I See in Myself:

  • Artistic Ability
  • the ability to keep an open mind
  • the ability to make do with what I've got

Qualities I Aspire to:

  • Strength to live life without thinking about what anyone else thinks.
  • Discipline




























Five (and more) People I Admire and Why:

  • Betty Page - the 'home town' girl who has always lived her life the way she wanted, convention be damned.
  • Bev Doolittle - her amazing ability to merge so many 'hidden' things into her paintings.
  • The Artists of Lascaux - they used what the had around them to create incredible works of art and magic.
  • Atheena - this woman is so incredible, she does the work of twenty and does it with great panache.
  • Susan Seddon Boulet - I am convinced that the Goddess worked through this lady. There is no comparison for her paintings.
  • Admiral Grace - this incredible lady helped create the very first computers. She is brilliant.
  • Mary SummerRain - Her incredible (am I overusing that word?) story of her training with No-Eyes is great, as well as the knowledge imparted in all her books.

Five People I Secretly Admire and Why:

  • Ellen - for her decision to live her life truthfully, despite the consequences
  • Sark - Same reason, and for helping the rest of us to do the same.
  • Art Bell - he is willing to talk about the things that go bump in the night...and the rest of the world wants to write off as myth or fantasy.
  • Lucy Lawless - She's tough, she's versatile...and she's Xena...LOL
  • Olivia - her paintings of Betty Page are incredible!

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Five (and more) Lives that I Would Love to Live and Why:

  • Cowboy...oops, girl - being in constant contact with Nature, as well as being as self sufficient as possible.
  • Astronaut - being able to see things from a different perspective...as well as possibly being the first to see or be on another planet.
  • sculptor - being able to bring out the image that is inherent in the stone - in other words, making the stone in the image that it wants to be.
  • Breeder and trainer of champion horses - seeing the potential in another creature and bringing out as much as I can.
  • Hiking guide into the backcounty - showing people Nature's wonders in a way that they wouldn't ordinarily be able to see it.
  • long distance Hiker - learning what my limits and potentials are as well as learning to use them to my best advantage.



five More Lives I'd Love to Live and Why:

  • Cyber-geek, a la 'The Net' - being able to convert a bunch of 1's and 0's into something as complicated as the WWW is incredible to me.
  • World Traveller - seeing Nature in many of her various aspects and seeing how other people have adapted to Her over the millinia.
  • Archeologist - discovering the secrets and treasures of the past as well as seeing for the first time in many, many years how someone lived.
  • Farrier, esp. with corrective shoeing - Taking a horse in pain and being able to fix the problem with a simple bar of iron.
  • Writer - bringing out worlds that previously existed in my mind and making them real for someone else, just by using words.