Progress

It has been a quiet week.  I finished my improv class this Wednesday and we have our big graduation show over the weekend.  I've been working on The Artist's Way and seeing synchronicity springing up all around.  Keeping a log of coincidences to see if anything ends up connecting along the way...

Talking with my friend, CM, yesterday I realized we had a few common goals.  We were talking about shooting a few projects and just getting material out there.  Building footage, creating projects for ourselves and our friends.  One of the things that holds us back is our desire to make whatever we are doing the best it can possibly be.  Which is, of course, always the goal.  But it is also one of the hardest goals to reach because art is rarely finished - it is a living, breathing creation.  As artists we often feel like we could have tweaked, heightened, made a stronger choice, in nearly all of our endeavors.  Since that conversation, I thought about something I read the first week of The Artist's Way.  It jumped out at me then and speaks to our conversation yesterday:

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

The thought for the weekend.  The goal for next week.  Progress.