Week 02 Tuesday Task -- A Circle

[rejectionchallenge]

Draw a circle of protection around your creative life – you can write “morning pages” “artist date” “working on my painting” “reading poetry” “sewing” or anything else that needs protection on a sheet of paper and draw a generous circle around it.

You can include champions, collaborators, or any sustaining thing within the circle, or connect them with vines.

If there are people or things you specifically need protection from -- destructive friends or self-sabotaging tendencies, job encroachment, fear, or anything else you can think of, write them down, too -- outside the circle of protection. Things that are especially destructive or persistent can have forcefields of their own. Make the forcefields nice and thick if you're a visual thinker-- you can use markers or colored pencils to make thick, bright or dark membranes. Don't let the bubbles touch!

If that doesn't work for you, try other ways of visualizing a form of protection or sustenance for your creative life. As always, there's no need to post about this task or even to say whether you've done it.

Did you do your morning pages today?

Comments

[perfectworry]

I have a few "crazymakers" at work and little power to change the situation to give myself any physical or mental space away from them. I've drawn them outside of the bubble, obviously.

I know Cameron would probably encourage me to quit my job or something because of a bully at work, but she lives a life of unexamined class privilege as far as I can tell and that's just not a financially responsible thing for me to do. I don't even want to quit my job. I like my job; I just don't like these people. This isn't a criticism of this particular chapter so much as a general sense of classism in a lot of her suggestions and examples…

[rejectionchallenge]

As far as I can tell, Cameron's unexamined class privilege is a vast, uncharted ocean teeming with uncountable strange beasts of even more unexamined class privilege. I've been trying to work around it as much as I can, but I don't always succeed, because it's vast and because I'm lazy and fallible -- so let me know where I go wrong.

I'm sorry to hear you have bullies at work, though. That can suck a lot, even (especially) if it's a good job otherwise :(