Tell No One
Just got back from seeing the New York premiere of Guillaume Canet’s Tell No One (Ne Le Dis a Personne) at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). I’m not a mystery buff, but wow! If you can get through the tortoise-like, Paris-cafe pace of the first half of the movie, you’ve got yourself the biggest nail-biter since Blood Simple.
The Artist's Way
I went by myself as part of the weekly Artist Date that I’m supposed to go on as part of my Artist Way program. You know, today I realized that it’s been 11 years since I started The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron. I started it a couple months after I graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997. What a trip my life has been since then!
Anyhow, The Artist’s Way has two essential tools, The Morning Pages and Artist Dates. For Morning Pages, you’re supposed to write three, longhand pages of free-written, stream-of-consciousness, whatever’s-on-your-mind writing right when you wake up. I am proud to say that, in 11 years, I’ve only missed one day of morning pages and that was because I was in the Emergency Room of New York Methodist Hospital with a broken leg after my cab got hit by a car. Cameron considers morning pages a viable form of meditation, where you’re most apt to broadcast your deepest self and deepest heart’s desire to the Universe. Each morning, I start my day with morning pages and then head into my first daily sitting meditation.
For Artist Dates, you’re supposed to take yourself on a solitary excursion for two hours each week to wherever you want to go – a movie, a restaurant, a park, a museum, a fabric store; whatever’s fun for you. I have to admit, I haven’t been as on-the-ball about doing those. Sometimes I go for weeks without taking myself on an Artist Date. But Cameron believes that, by doing Artist Dates, we often attract synchronicity and discover the very things we need to discover in order to move forward with our lives and our art.
Today, I did do my Artist’s Date, though. I saw Tell No One. Just thought I’d tell you.
Tags: Artist Dates, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Guillaume Canet, Julia Cameron, Tell No One
