Art - Our Sacred Practice

No. 2 in the Grow Wings and Fly series
Work in progress. © Cherry Jeffs 2014
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Why is it that it takes the big and catastrophic events in life to hammer home the importance of our creative practice?

Momentous and heart-rending things are happening in my life right now, wrenching me away from my home and my comfortable routines of working in the studio and teaching yoga.

Whenever I have the chance to get into my studio now, it feels sacred. I am awed by an hour of silence and feel the privilege of a brief respite of uninterrupted focus.

I entreat you today to treat your creative practice as sacred and your creative space (even if it's your laptop or a corner of the kitchen table) as holy.

I was stitching onto the canvas today so I was able to take my work outside onto the deck and enjoy some spring sunshine - hence the tree branch shadows on the photo!