avoidance

Rice Freeman Zachery has an insightful post on her blog, titled "Escaping from Your Fabulous Life" which addresses both creativity and our urge to run from it. And, hopefully, she's following this up with a podcast interview that goes into this subject of blocks and avoidance with more depth. Stay tuned...

I struggle with this a lot. I'm doing it right now: sitting in front of the computer instead of working on either one of the two lovely and satisfying projects all cued up and ready to go on the sewing table. I KNOW that three nights out of five I'm avoiding sewing not because my back is tired or my eyes are weak or any of that -- I do it for the reasons Rice begins to enunciate in her post -- because it's WORK to create, much more work than laundry, way more work than effing around on Facebook for hours at a time. And sometimes it's lonely work -- good alone time, but a kind of time I seem disinclined to value. Apart from the surfing, I do that other nasty thing - shopping. Shopping for thread, for a new lamp, for more fabric; for supplies I seem to require urgently, which then sit in the bag on the floor in the sewing room while I surf the Internet...Yep, a nasty truth, and it's true RIGHT NOW. Fortunately, I get to surf some more while eagerly awaiting Rice's podcast.

Damn.