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The walls in my studio are painted a color called “Pencil”.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Pencil: A small little wooden tool you use to sketch, draw, doodle initial ideas.\u00a0 Its noteworthy for having an eraser.\u00a0 Unlike the pen, its a good choice for the beginning of a project, when we take the risk of creating something from scratch the first time.\u00a0 It connects a spark, something that won’t go away, in our head, gut, mind\u2019s eye, or where ever we find inspiration and driving force, to the sketch pad or paper outside to create fragment of something that can be worked on over and over. Its the start of bringing something out, to play with it, develop it, and eventually share.<\/p>\n
I like the idea of thinking life more like a pencil.\u00a0 Its a good metaphor for letting ourselves try things with a lot less judgment.\u00a0 How else will we ever start anything new? How else will we ever really change, grow, give ourselves the chance to fail, create, experiment, play or live fully? ‘Feel’ our way into things?\u00a0 There is so much uncertainty, letting go, and intuition at play in new beginnings.\u00a0 It takes a long time, as new doesn\u2019t emerge fully formed, it grows through unfolding over time.\u00a0 Its beautiful really, if we get our \u2018thinking\u2019 out of the way.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t find this color browsing through the paint chips at the paint store.\u00a0 Instead, it kind of came to me, as the perfect bright color, when I entered the all white walls of my empty, rather plain studio, basically: 4 walls, wooden floors, and a window.\u00a0\u00a0 (I maybe even thought of the color before seeing the actual studio, I don\u2019t quite remember).\u00a0 Pencil is a good color to see each day.\u00a0 Sketch, erase, doodle, draw, add, erase, try, polish, and try again.\u00a0 Let our other wisdom do the work.\u00a0 I like this feeling of starting with pencil yellow walls.\u00a0 Now lets see what these colored walls bring.<\/p>\n
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