Make Biscuits, Not War
Make art everyday, any way you can. Work on your novel. Or poem, essay, short story, play, screenplay. Or a painting, song, sculpture. film, photograph. Most of all, expand your notion of what art is. Anything that is made with care can be art, too. The art is what goes into it almost as much as what comes out. The art is in the making as much as the end product. So if you can't put your energies to that novel today, keep your creative juices flowing by making art in your own way. Bake homemade biscuits. Plant tomatoes. Hoe your garden. Make a pie (give it to a neighbor). Read a book to a child (performance art). Walk in the woods and make an art of observation. Have a dance party in your living room. When my daughters were little, we did this almost every night and those are some of my best memories. Develop all those pictures that are stored on your laptop and make a photo album that ...