Category Archives: Insights

Meet the Enemy Part 6: Harboring

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the sixth installment in a weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Enemy Part 5: Combat

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the fifth installment in a  weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Enemy Part 3: Recognition

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the third installment of a weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Enemy Part 2: Habitat

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the second installment in a weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Enemy Part 1: Taking Stock

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the first installment of a weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Safety and Sirens and My Supposed Writer’s Block

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Adena Atkins

I’m drinking Earl Gray tea out of a big white mug and the mug is hot. I’m sitting inside the People’s Republic Koffee Shop. Today I worked on a new song. This is a big deal because in the past year … Continue reading →

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Art and Amazement

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Adena Atkins

This is a refinement of a post I wrote a little while ago called Art and Choice. I was trying to tease out the difference between what’s commonly known as mundane and artistic activities. I noticed that there was a … Continue reading →

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Art and Choice

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Adena Atkins

To borrow a prompt from the back of Oprah magazine, as I remember it from cross country plane rides, this I believe. Every human is creative. Living is creative. All of creation is a creation. We already lead Art Full … Continue reading →

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Space

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Adena Atkins

I’ve been considering my relationship with space. Every artist has one–songmakers negotiate silence, painters must approach virgin canvas, writers blank screens, and dancers navigate literal space. It’s a place of beginnings, endings, and and for me, avoidance. Because I’ve mixed … Continue reading →

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Productivity Has Stages

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Adena Atkins

Like usual I’ve been thinking about productivity–after all sustainable creativity is the core focus of this blog. I realized I didn’t have a description for kind of productivity I’m courting. Efficient productivity is accurate enough, but it conjures up an unfortunate … Continue reading →

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