{"id":4188,"date":"2010-05-20T11:32:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=4188"},"modified":"2010-05-28T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T22:00:31","slug":"determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/determination\/","title":{"rendered":"Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"

I worked on my office\/studio a bit yesterday. Now that the room is painted (Thanks Tom!). I can really start to put my things away and get organized. I hung shelves and put up my dry erase board. On my board is the word “Determination.” I keep it there as a constant reminder to never give up on my dreams. It’s funny, I’ve been yearning to put that board up, and I think it’s because I needed that word, much more than needing a place to write down my to do list. That word feeds me. I read Angela’s post today<\/a> and it’s of a similar subject. About finding your way and not getting lost, about being present. That word, determination, it holds all of these meanings for me. It’s like a beacon. Now that I am having a child, it holds an even stronger meaning. I am my child’s role model. How I choose to live my life will serve as an example for her. And so there is an even greater importance on the word. I am so excited to start this next big phase in my life. I think I’m going to be good at it. As long as I have my word to guide me, I will figure it out.<\/p>\n

Tom hasn’t made much music since we moved, just as I haven’t made much art. I told him I wished I could be a better muse for him. I wanted to know what I could do to help him write more music. He said the best thing I can do is to get my art practice back up and running. And so I must. I had less than zero energy over the last week or so, but yesterday it came back. The New American Paintings deadline approaches. I am putting a piece in an auction this weekend. Things are slowly bubbling. Two more months of work, then it’s off to the wild blue yonder for me. I’ll learn how to be a mommy, and I’ll learn how to get a little work done in between baby naps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I worked on my office\/studio a bit yesterday. Now that the room is painted (Thanks Tom!). I can really start to put my things away and get organized. I hung shelves and put up my dry erase board. On my board is the word “Determination.” I keep it there as a constant reminder to never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4188\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}