by Giulietta Nardone | Jul 5, 2022 | Creativity, Imagination, Painting, Taking Chances, Untraining
Loosen Up. Unbend. You’ll Feel Better. ~ Mae West Years ago, when I started my second journey as an artist, this time as an adult, many of the experienced artists around me asked the same question of instructors: How do I loosen up? And as I became...
by Giulietta Nardone | May 27, 2022 | Feeling Alive, Speaking Up, Taking Chances, Untraining
Stand up for what you believe in even if you stand alone. ~ Suzy Kassem At the cusp of thirty, I began standing up for things. It started with a mid-level boss some of us women were having issues with. I volunteered to say something and I did. But when the...
by Giulietta Nardone | May 27, 2022 | Feeling Alive, Imagination, Taking Chances, Writing
Barbaric Yawps And Other Signs Of Life by Noelle Foster. Her writing is gorgeous! Enjoy. I was in a yawping contest once. Paired with another classmate, I was instructed to holler as loud as possible out over the front lawn of our college campus. What a...
by Giulietta Nardone | Mar 30, 2022 | Creativity, Feeling Alive, Taking Chances, Writing
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson If I have a choice, I usually step out and take the chance. Might succeed, might not, but the risk is always worth it...
by Giulietta Nardone | Jan 4, 2022 | Feeling Alive, Speaking Up, Taking Chances, Untraining
The doors will be opened to those who are bold enough to knock. ~ Tony Gaskins I found a two-week old fortune cookie on the kitchen shelf and decided to crack it open to retrieve the wisdom inside. It read, “Don’t wait for others to open the right door.” ...
