by Giulietta Nardone | Jun 12, 2024 | Creativity, Feeling Alive, Untraining
Love is the the bridge between you and everything.” ~ Ray Bradbury” People talk about love a lot, but it can be a tough emotion to show and a tough emotion to receive. I know I have had a hard time with it, something I traced to childhood and unloving...
by Giulietta Nardone | Jul 30, 2022 | Feeling Alive, Untraining
To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True Wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.. ~ Robert Bly In 2006, I got the idea for my very first...
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 | 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.” ...
by Giulietta Nardone | Oct 26, 2021 | Persistence, Taking Chances, Untraining
If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible. ~ Apolo Ohno For most of my working life, I was given the same advice: Have a Plan B. make sure you have a backup or two. And...
