What's singing, if not the desire to affect your listener on the deepest level? The longing to express a feeling so profoundly that the Other gets goosebumps, or cries, or smiles with melancholia? A voice so powerful it feels as though it could move mountains. Perhaps that is why I love singing. Perhaps it is because …
Second week – One Year Challenge
This week, I sang! Following Cameron's The Artist's Way, this week was about recovering a sense of identity. Every day, I write in my journal - religiously. It is not always the first thing I do in the morning, though I try to make it so. Sometimes, the cats are the first to claim priority. …
First week – One Year Challenge
The first few days of January have flown by. I started the 12-week course The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron last week. The two most important parts of this method are the morning pages—writing three pages each day, first thing in the morning, with any thoughts that may populate your mind—and the artist's date: a date with …
One Year Challenge
For how long can one avoid their dreams? For me, it has been 32 years, nearly 33; a few uni degrees, a 9-year career in something I, deep down, did not feel proud of. Burnout, complete lack of motivation, rampant procrastination, sleeping as a way of escapism. The story I had told myself for years …
Happiness
The thing about happiness is that one does not necessarily find the time to write about it. One feels it, lets it overwhelm, and enjoys it while is there. Yet, one wants to write about it, to remember it, in case one forgets how it feels like, or, more importantly, its cause. And here's one …
G. Maria Bencich-Grigore 