{"id":2809,"date":"2014-12-16T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2016-02-16T14:10:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T22:10:44","slug":"december-16-2014-let-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeinfullcolor.com\/dev\/life-stories\/december-16-2014-let-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"December 16, 2014 – Let it shine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This past week my coach, Lissa Boles, suggested I share with you why I now write a journal post every week.\u00a0 \u00a0In thinking about this, I reflected on how, as much as I love to write and am told how much people appreciate it, it was SO not that way for much of my life.\u00a0 In high school I loved Math, Physics, Chemistry and French. Proving geometric theorems was fun!\u00a0 Give me any math word problem – I ate \u2018em up! \u00a0But, I got through<\/em> English. Blue books were not my friends. \u00a0This carried into college. I remember reading Voltaire for a Humanities class and being required to write an essay about character motivation in light of the era or something like that – and being totally, thoroughly flummoxed!\u00a0 I had not a clue! \u00a0My brain just does NOT work that way!<\/p>\n

My degree is in Computer Science and all my electives were natural sciences, classes about the natural world:\u00a0 Oceanography, Geography, Geology, Meteorology.\u00a0 I love maps and categorizing things.\u00a0 I have a brain that loves to find order in disorder. But writing?\u00a0 I subscribed to something I heard my dad say: \u00a0\u201cwriting is easy, all you have to do is stare at a piece of paper until your forehead bleeds!\u201d\u00a0 That is, until it was about something I cared about – writing stories of my experiences.\u00a0 When I was going to a church that occasionally invited members of the community to offer reflections as part of the Sunday services, I started writing stories to share.\u00a0 But, I really got going when preparing for my first Open Studios.\u00a0 I was inspired to write a little story for each painting and put together an \u201cArt Journal.\u201d\u00a0 I remember sitting outside on the patio with my laptop on my lap, just tapping away, one painting after the other.\u00a0 I have continued for each new painting I\u2019ve done since.\u00a0 And all these stories are on my website, helping to further illuminate the images I paint.<\/p>\n

What comes to me now is that the impetus to write has sprung from these places:<\/p>\n