Comments on: showing up and off http://nancywaldman.net/2007/07/02/showing-up-and-off/ click above to go home Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:58:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: nancy http://nancywaldman.net/2007/07/02/showing-up-and-off/#comment-14 nancy Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:28:19 +0000 http://nancywaldman.net/2007/07/02/showing-up-and-off/#comment-14 Thanks Suze. Of course I know what you're talking about. I'm glad you GOT what I was talking about. I'm also glad you dropped by. How great is that? I've had this really lovely time with this blog...knowing that people can come and see it anytime but also knowing that it's not seen by many folks. So it's a modest and bearable kind of exposure. I like your idea about quantity. I will think about that. I've never really had much productivity in my life so this stage of my life does feel different---and wonderful---in that respect. hugs*** Thanks Suze. Of course I know what you’re talking about. I’m glad you GOT what I was talking about. I’m also glad you dropped by. How great is that? I’ve had this really lovely time with this blog…knowing that people can come and see it anytime but also knowing that it’s not seen by many folks. So it’s a modest and bearable kind of exposure. I like your idea about quantity. I will think about that. I’ve never really had much productivity in my life so this stage of my life does feel different—and wonderful—in that respect.

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]]> By: suze http://nancywaldman.net/2007/07/02/showing-up-and-off/#comment-12 suze Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:42:22 +0000 http://nancywaldman.net/2007/07/02/showing-up-and-off/#comment-12 Nanc, I ran across this and found it interesting. First, the illustration--I literally can't tell where the painting ends and real stuff begins. Great! Also, I know what you mean about showing off. It's excruciatingly hard to deal with. It's probably one of The Reasons why finishing doesn't always happen, in fact, now that I think about it. Yesterday I went to a meeting and my boss stood up and unexpectedly announced that I had received a prize a week or so ago. It's still such an out-of-body experience. I hear voices saying ooh and aaah and I see various faces revealing various expressions--some of them quite awkward, to me. And then there are the jealous ones who never in a million years would say "Nice job. congratulations." It's all so very, very odd. So I wanted you to know that from this viewpoint over here, I think you are doing a very, very excellent job of "showing off." Your approach lately, like in the last few years, has just been one of not only quality--which you always possessed in spades--but ALSO of quantity. So I'm thinking that the blitz, almost, of all you're doing is maybe, just maybe, getting you over the bad part of Showing Off. There's something to be said for sheer quantity so that not one piece or one outing is so "precious." Don't get me wrong: everything you do is, without a doubt, high quality. And I know how important that is to you. You are not sacrificing anything there at all. But work begets work and you are just in that groove about it and when you get out of the groove, you are able to get yourself back which is such a huge part of the answer to everything. Nanc, I'll bet you don't have the slightest idea what I'm talking about at this point, but I have enjoyed typing this out and just rattling on, AND I have to say that I admire and NOTICE your showing up and off lots and lots and I'm so very proud of you!! Nanc, I ran across this and found it interesting. First, the illustration–I literally can’t tell where the painting ends and real stuff begins. Great! Also, I know what you mean about showing off. It’s excruciatingly hard to deal with. It’s probably one of The Reasons why finishing doesn’t always happen, in fact, now that I think about it. Yesterday I went to a meeting and my boss stood up and unexpectedly announced that I had received a prize a week or so ago. It’s still such an out-of-body experience. I hear voices saying ooh and aaah and I see various faces revealing various expressions–some of them quite awkward, to me. And then there are the jealous ones who never in a million years would say “Nice job. congratulations.” It’s all so very, very odd. So I wanted you to know that from this viewpoint over here, I think you are doing a very, very excellent job of “showing off.” Your approach lately, like in the last few years, has just been one of not only quality–which you always possessed in spades–but ALSO of quantity. So I’m thinking that the blitz, almost, of all you’re doing is maybe, just maybe, getting you over the bad part of Showing Off. There’s something to be said for sheer quantity so that not one piece or one outing is so “precious.” Don’t get me wrong: everything you do is, without a doubt, high quality. And I know how important that is to you. You are not sacrificing anything there at all. But work begets work and you are just in that groove about it and when you get out of the groove, you are able to get yourself back which is such a huge part of the answer to everything. Nanc, I’ll bet you don’t have the slightest idea what I’m talking about at this point, but I have enjoyed typing this out and just rattling on, AND I have to say that I admire and NOTICE your showing up and off lots and lots and I’m so very proud of you!!

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