Ten Things About Me
- I write. A lot. Once upon a time, my favorite professor asked a class full of us writers why we write. I answered that I couldn’t imagine not writing, which is true, but also funny, since the only thing I do as much as write, is avoid writing. I’ve learned to love the chronic twitch of cognitive dissonance.
x - One of the things I do instead of writing is doodle. It started out as a distraction, a coping mechanism for over-long phone meetings, but now it’s something else: part heart & soul business, part meditation, part obsession, part joke-telling-sign-carrying-polka-dotted emu.
x - I believe love lies at the heart of every meaningful thing I do.
x - Which is why I love – as big and as fearlessly as I can.
x - I spent all of 2011 publicly committed to fearless love. For one year, I loved wildly out of my comfort zone. It was exhilarating, surprising, and scary. It was everything I never imagined, and it changed my life. I wrote about it in a collection of essays you can download here.
x - This isn’t really about me, but Douglas Adams says it is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. As far as I know, he didn’t weigh in on cheesecake, but I think it’s fair to say that there are few problems (major or minor) that cheesecake can’t solve. (Wait. Maybe this is about me.)
x - I feel sorry for people who don’t have dogs.
x - I often fall a little in love with the authors of the books I read. When I get the urge to write a love letter, I write a review.
x - When I decided to create a website with my name as the URL, I got a little nervous so I wrote a mission statement to make sure I stay on track: My mission is to make art, do work, and engage in shenanigans that inspire fearless love, soulful evolution, and wild creativity as a way of life.
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10. Seriously. What could possibly go wrong?
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You have such a beautiful site, taking so much of the loveliest bits of your others. I love your playfulness and your sharing and invitation, your creativity.
I didn’t think I was nervous about the new site (maybe too tired to muster up anxiety), but I’m pretty sure that was relief that swept through me when I read this comment. Thank you, Clare! xo
Snazzy new site! (and how many do you have now?) I like that some of the posts are in two columns, which is different from most blogs. Which further reminds me, my own blog really needs a redesign. Maybe I should grab a big pack of Sharpies & start doodling…
Just this one now. Zebra Sounds is still out there because I sort of grew up there. I couldn’t bring myself to pull it down, but this is the only active site.
And you should definitely start doodling. I’ll bring the Sharpies, you pick the music. ;)